Me, Michelle and Jamie drove around 3.5 hours each way on Saturday to visit SAFF, aka the Southeast Animal Fiber Fair, aka A Big Crackhouse For Knitters, Crocheters, Weavers and Spinners. The entire Flickr set of the trip, including videos, can be seen here.

It rained almost the whole way there, and then the skies cleared as we neared the Mecca of Wooliness.

The main vendor floor was 2 levels of awesome.

Yarn, roving, fleeces, spinning wheels, looms, angora bunnies, sheep, goats, alpacas, finished products like hats and shawls and socks and sweaters, buttons and other notions, felted goodies, wool rug-hooking kits, sheep-themed pajamas, sheep paintings, you name it, it was there.

We hit the alpaca barn in the afternoon and saw some real cuties.

Here’s a video of Miss Thang mugging for the camera:

We also got to see an outrageously cute 4-day-old pygmy goat. She wasn’t an orphan, just had a mom overwhelmed with 3 babies, so her human mommy was making sure she got plenty of milk via bottle-feeding.

Here are a couple short videos; my longer video upload to Flickr is stalling, so I’ll try again later.

I ended up with a couple pounds of combed top, including Cormo (a merino/corriedale cross which I’ve been wanting to try for a while now), alpaca, silk and merino/silk blend, and BFL. Also the starts of a rug-hooking hobby, some Brooks Farm mohair/wool yarn, and some gorgeous fabric that was being sold as scraps from a weaver’s studio. No pictures of my haul, since I’m heading to a cabin in the woods for a minivacation.