Woolfest 2015

Hello all, I know you probably want to hear about Woolfest right?

So Woolfest this year was Friday 28th June.

And look what kicked the day off, my lovely friend vic had her gorgeous baby boy in the early hours of the morning, I heard she was in labour the evening before so checked my phone literally all through the night, but apparently I had ran out of data and she had text me at like 2am but i didn't get to see this little face till the actual morning.

Isn't he gorgeous.

So as ever I went to Woolfest with my sister nicky (of nicola to you, or ninny to martha).

We went together last year 2014 oh and look here is 2012 i was too pregnant for 2013.

We didn't leave as early as planned, but we got there about 10.30.

Given I had ran out of data I got a couple messages with this little face along the way.

We weren't quite sure if we were going to go to Woolfest or not with Yarndale being much nearer than the 2.5 hours that Woolfest is and I don't wanna leave martha overnight so we did there and back in the day again.

I really wanted to go to Easyknits that was my main stall I was bothered about, I didn't have a big budget as june/july are busy birthday months and i didn't really 'need' anything.

But i did was to look at the Gobstoppers which I have seen on instagram lately.

We did get some which i will show you later. 

I do like their yarn though. I think the thing i noticed about Woofest this year is there wasn't tons of hand dyed yarn as odd as that sounds, well nothing like this like bright and fun, there was lots of 'made' things if that makes sense. 

We met lots of sheep folks.

these were fun.

Cute little pic of gorgeous Violet meeting her little brother 

My sister liked the Sew Sister stall and got some pretty fabric, it was super busy stall. 

i apparently didn't take many pics as thats it.

So this is 'all' i got, i got a lovely gobstopper from Easyknits, and i got some plain yarn and some kook-aid to try some dyeing, one of my chums on instagram started hand dyeing and has done some stunning things, I just wanted to try one, Ive been really been feeling well enough to take this on yet but hoping soon and it doesn't just sit.

i got a ton of gorgeous buttons, we got some good bargains, buttons can be very very pricey but i tried to get enough for garments which seems be 6 or 7 for a adult really 

Yeah i got quite a few, and a lovely shawl pin and this fun little red riding hood button, I have some fabric that would match really well, one day when i get around to it lol. 

So my sis got some gobstoppers too, or so i thought she kindly bought me the neon one which i hadn't realised at the time, how fun is that?? She's always so generous.

So this is Killer Queen

And this is Neon Boogie.

So there you got that was our trip. We got back in time to see Martha before bedtime despite getting stuck in traffic. 

Im thinking i need some self striping on the needles soon, well some more, i do already have some, obviously lol! 

Right chat soon x

Woolfest 2014

So a couple of weeks ago me and my sis headed off to Woolfest, I couldn't go last year as thats when i was having lots of problems with my back and i was about 30 weeks pregnant.

Today was the first day I have left Martha for that long, so we decided to go there and back in a day, we normally stay over but i didn't feel quite ready for that this year. 

Alas we got on the road early. 

It got sunnier and sunnier the nearer we got

We made it in good time, despite the A66 being slow!

We shared a field with loads of cows.

The first stop we made was with Laal Bear 

Then we sort out the button stall we liked, or so we thought.

Then we found a super cheap button stall with loads of lovely buttons that were about 25p which was much more reasonable.

This was the stall. 

And then we found the button stall we were actually looking for, we thought the first stall had been really expensive and must have raised their prices but turns out it was a different stall and we got mixed up, actually the first stall bought buttons from this stall Textile Garden and sold them for nearly 3 times as much. 

We weren't impressed. 

This was the Sparkle Duck stand, lovely yarn but didn't get anything from there. 

Always with a look though. 

There were some cute drawings on one of the stands and this one amused me. 

We stopped at Easy Knits for a little look. 

They had some super lovely yarns. 

We headed back about 4 so we could get back to see Martha before bedtime. 

We headed back through the twisty roads. 

And home to my gorgeous girl who was very excited to see me. 

Once baby was in bed I got out my goodies 

These are my Laal Bear goodies. 

I grabbed a Baa Ram Ewe bag which is their 5th Anniversary Birthday bag. 

i got a lovely green/blue skein from Knitting Goddess. 

and a lovely pink my sis got my from Easyknits. 

And oooohhh the buttons, yeh i went a bit mad but they were so cheap and its so nice to see them in person and see the size etc, i got 5 of each as that seems to be a good number for baby knits which is what i mainly do. 

So there you go thats it for another year.

I have actually caked up all the yarn, Martha thought this was funny. 

I have some plans for my purchases which i will share when i get chance.

Did you go? What did you get?