If you’re within 50 miles of north Dallas, jump in your car and come on over to the DFW FiberFest at the Addison Convention Center (in the background, behind these cute fish sculptures). This is the first DFW FiberFest ever; the next FiberFest is already planned for mid-April 2007. There are six vendors here this weekend, as you’ll see below. They’ll be here from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday (tomorrow).
We have some great instructors here, including Beth Brown-Reinsel for the knitters and Darla Fanton for the crocheters. I’m among some pretty incredible regional talent. The crochet I have seen here does my heart good. Crocheters to watch: Jerry Rigdon, Jan Scogin, Cher Mueller. Imaginative, ingenious, and incredible work!
Now, to the shopping. I’ve already done mine, but there is plenty left for everyone else. Fire Ant Ranch has spindles, carded wool and mohair, handspun, and some of my stuff.
Jojoland International’s owner, Lijuan Jing, is here with her wool and cashmere yarns from China. The prices range from around $7.50 a ball for wool through $12.50 a ball for merino/cashmere blends (oh, so soft), to $25.00 a hank for cashmere (oh, so softer). Lijuan has lovely samples, too, and she has only been knitting since last September.
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This is what I bought. Love that pink cashmere. Lijuan asked me, “Are you buying those to knit together? No, I just wanted to try out the yarn and experiment. She was relieved.
Pearl’s Knitwits designer, Angela Thompson, adds some fun with her knitter cartoons. One is, “You’re a knitwit if a trip to the mall becomes a chorus of I can make that!’ Find the picture at her website. I bought Eva a bumper sticker for her notebook, and myself a clock.
Diane Piwko brought great stuff from her new yarn shop, Fiber Circle, in Farmersville, TX. I finally succumbed to recycled silk, and also Mango Moon’s new recycled viscose.
Here’s Diane’s display. That little shrug in the foreground is made of recycled silk. The lavender crocheted shrug at the left will be in a future issue of Crochet Fantasy.
This Marble yarn is very pretty, and I feel good about having an article in each and every one of the INKnitters displayed here.
See? You gotta come!