Just love, love, love the sound of spring peepers as the sun starts to set! Because that means it is warming up and going to stay that way for awhile! Yay! But that also means it is almost time for the WEBS annual tent sale in Massachusetts. Double yay!
For any fiber lover or spinner, this is heaven on earth. Our Graceland. The Vatican of fiber. The Royal Family reunion. You name it, this is it. WEBS is a great online source for all things yummy. It may be all sticks and string but ooooooooooo do we love the string! Cashmere, baby alpaca, merino wool, angora, kid mohair, silk, milk fiber, bamboo viscose; the list could go on and on and on...and on, and on, and on. And what makes it great for me (Karen) this year is that I am finally going to be able to experience this breathtaking, choir of angels softly singing above me, sunbeams lighting the glorious path to "Ahh-Aaahhhh".
I encourage anyone who is a fiber addict, like my sister and I, have a fiber addict in their family, or if you just have a general morbid curiosity as to who all these odd crazy people are squeezing skeins of yarn like they are checking the ripeness of a tomato. Trust me, one squeeze of some baby alpaca, you're gonna be running around knocking people over squeezing, touching, feeling, rubbing on your cheek (hopefully face), and emphatically sounding off the Campbell's "mm-mmm-good!" slogan over and over again. You get hooked (crochet pun - haha) from the first time your gently glide your finger over a soft hazy pillow of superfine kid mohair. It's like being wrapped up into a burrito made from big white puffy clouds lined with angel feathers.
If anything, come and watch the loonies get all starry eyed over something the size of lemon that costs more than a nice dinner for two. But my thought is, who needs dinner?
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