Great Basin Fiber Festival

We had a lovely time at the Great Basin Fiber Festival this weeked.  Busy, but lovely.  How could it not have been when we saw so many old friends and made lots of new ones?  Not only did a large group of the Utah and Idaho grrls come out and support the shop, but several old friends from the east coast found their way west to Salt Lake for a visit too!

Here's a group shot (seen in several other spots, I'm sure, in blogland already!):

Kim, Carole, Susan, Terry, Margene and me in our booth.  Kim and Judy-of-the-deep-pocketbook also spent time chatting and shopping.  It was really wonderful to be able to get to spend even a bit of time with everyone, although we were busy enough on Saturday that I didn't have much time to talk. 

And a HUGE thank you to Nicole (why can't I get your mac blog link to work???) who drove down from No. Utah and spent the entire day on Saturday sitting in the booth, helping bag sales up and even stayed to help D and I pack everything up for the evening.  We signed you up for next year too, dearie!

You may also notice a certain yellow stole draped artistically over my chair there on the far left.  Yup.  The Bee Fields stole made a trip out to Utah.  Now, The Other Anne, aka George, had said she'd send me one of the 2 lace pieces to be on tour for the show, so I wasn't really surprised when the stole arrived this week.  I WAS really surprised when she included a note letting me know that it was mine, mine, mine (!!!!!!) to keep for ever and ever, amen.  Mwah!  Thanks, George!  You know I will treasure it always.  (Although I did have to wrestle it away from several people intent on liberating it for themselves.  Hmpf.)

So now that our show season is over, the Bee Fields frenzy is starting to wane, and I have finally finished a large wholesale dye order, I am hopeful I might be a bit more of a regular blogger again.   We shall see!

Tomorrow, another long-awaited gift post and some horse stuff.

All for now......

Comments

[Liz]

and it looks so very at home draped around your person... glad your show went well, and also glad to hear we may be hearing from you more... hope all is well in Anne-land!

[Kit]

Wow, that stole is so gorgeous. And hey, familiar faces, sort of! :D

[Marcia Cooke]

You deserve that stole for sure! Hope to see you more frequently now that the crunch is over!

[Mary Lou]

Nice stole. And the overall look with the shorts and sneaks is perfect! How is Digg's garlic treatment working out?

[Sheepish Annie]

If anyone has earned a Bee Fields shawl, I'd say it's you! What's that line about the shoemaker's children always being the last to get new shoes? ;)

Sounds like a great festival!

[Cathy]

Great to see you draped in a well-deserved Bee Fields, honey.

Now you can kick back and relax. I am sure that's gonna happen.

[Margaret]

Oh, I particularly like the stole with shorts and sunglasses! :)
Sounds like a wonderful festival! Pygora is here and mmmmmmmm.

[Judy]

I SAW that walk by and didn't know it was on you! Gorgeous!!

[Nicole]

Maybe the link on my name will work if I leave a comment. :) I'll be happy to help again next year!

I would have liked to liberate the Bee Fields stole from you, but I would never have felt like its rightful owner. Instead, I was just happy to bask all day Saturday in the nearness of it, getting to pet it occasionally.

[anne]

oooh, it looks great on you! and i finally get to see a good shot of what you actually look like!

[Norma]

Look at you in that first picture! You're smiling!

I love that stole on ya, too. It is a beauty!

[cyndy]

Looks like it was a great day, with great people, but that stole steals the show...it is a beauty, and looks fabulous!

[Charleen]

What a beautiful stole and such a lovely present! Looks like everyone had a great time.

[Beth S.]

Oh, you lucky thing, you! Your own Bee that you didn't have to knit yourself! ;-) That seems fitting, actually, considering how many others' Bees you enabled this summer. I feel kind of badly that I haven't started mine yet after you dyed your fingers to the bone making all the kits. ;-)

[Karen]

Oh your new shawl is awesome! And if anyone deserved it, you surely do. I'm glad things will be slowing down a bit for you now.
It sounds like you had a wonderful weekend!

[Kim]

It was GREAT to see you this weekend! Although I WAS lusting in a big way over that shawl, you surely do deserve to call it your own :)

[margene]

The whole festival was fun and it's great that you did so well. You deserve the Bee Stole! YOU did the hard part;-)

[Laurie]

Lucky grrl. Good fest, good folks (glad to let you borrow them for a bit), and a fabulous Bee Stole.

[Carole]

You rock the bee stole, baby!

[Birdsong]

You look fab in the stole, shades and shorts; the real you all in one package! I hope you get some rest and a few more rides in before winter.

[vanessa]

you are beeutiful wrapped in your bee :-)