Yesterday Jag dropped me off at the house of Jeff and Michelle so that Michelle and I could head out for a trip to the fiber festival at the “Got to Be NC” festival and then stop over at Peace College for the North Carolina Quilt Symposium.

We weren’t sure what to expect from the fiber festival, but we managed to park and trudge through the antique tractor displays and fair food vendors and make it to the Village of Yesteryear Building (as I like to call it). As “fiber festivals” go, this was pretty sparse, but the few vendors who attended were great and had some good stuff.

Michelle and I split a bag of sari silk that we can drum-card into our batts:

…and then we went in on a one-pound bag of lovely, soft, unprocessed, honey-colored alpaca that we can card up and spin.

I’m beginning to be really glad that I bought the drum carder from HLF, because I never would have considered either of these purchases a few weeks ago. Um, wait, maybe that wasn’t such a good idea after all!

I also picked up 10oz of hand-dyed cotton for spinning. This should be enough to make a little summer tank top with, if I can get past the screaming-and-crying part of spinning cotton.

Aside from the handful of fiber vendors and some very friendly folks doing spinning demos, there wasn’t a whole lot else to see. We did go down the hill to see the milk goats and alpacas.

After a short detour to the flea market, we hit the road again and headed downtown. The quilt show was somewhat confusingly hosted in a couple of different buildings on the Peace College campus, but once we figured out where to go, we wandered around admiring the quilts and checking out the vendors. I have 50+ quilt photos in a Flickr photoset, but here are a few of my favorites. The venue was pretty crowded and it was tough to get enough space to take full pictures of the larger quilts, and the vendor booths were packed.

I managed to control myself and only bought some batik fat quarters and a pattern.

Then we headed home for gaming, where the vampire came in. Annoying bloodsucking bugger is still running around.

The End