So Soft and Pretty

Hiya from a,

This past weekend was Shepherd's Harvest, which is a big Fiber/Yarn/Wool festival thing that happens in Minnesota.  It is awesome and us FLBs go a little nuts when we go to it.  I ran into someone I know and all she could say was "my that is a full bag you have there"  It is actually neat to watch what we all buy (there were six of us there together with a couple others dropping in and out of the core grouping), as three of us were spinners and three weren't (though we may have pulled one over to the dark side).  But what I find fun is that we all definitely have colour palettes that we exist in (the first thing I bought for myself was pink and shiny - I'm sure all  of you dear readers are just shocked by that).  There are those who gravitate towards the dark, or the bright, and then watching all of us trying to burst out of our little colour bubbles.  The person who loves blue tones bought a gorgeous gold yarn, I bought something with autumnal tones which isn't where I usually go.  Anyways here is my haul from Shepherd's Harvest:

My specific shopping goals were two fold: 1) I wanted to buy batts and 2) I wanted to buy stuff that I couldn't dye myself.  The huge purple ball is something that I could have come close to dying but it is a huge awesome shiny purple ball how could I resist.  The two braids are by Happy Hands, and I had played with some of their stuff last year and just loved it. 
I want you to realize that I brought home all this pretty at Saturday around 3/330.  Now here is what I've already done with it:

This is a two ply yarn spun on Dusty.  It is the middle unbound batt from the photo above.  It was Wool, BFL, Mohair, and Silk.  It is a little greener than the photo shows but not by much.

This is a half spun batt (the one on the right in the photo).  I am spinning it on Loretta, and this is Alpaca, Mohair, and Silk.  It is soooooo soft and dreamy, I think that I might just let it exist as a thin single.  There have been some slubs in the process, but I don't mind that.

This is the crazy braid I bought from Happy Hands.  It is Black BFL and dear me is it just spinning up like a dream on Meg.  It is shiny and smooth and just awesome.

That's what I have so far.  I have to do a fair bit of sewing this week, so the spinning will slow down a bit, but still I'd imagine in a couple of weeks, I'll have a bunch of cool yarn to show you.
Take care.