My friends Ashely and Judy took a basket weaving class.
Here she is with the basket she made and one she bought.
Half of the Ravelers that met up at noon. I think there may have been at least 20 if not more.
This is Lara at her very first fiber festival. She had some beautiful stitch markers.
It is such a wonderful atmosphere. Fiber and yarn everywhere you look, beautiful handmade items and the smiling faces of fellow fiber enthusiasts.
Olivia and I had a wonderful day at the Fiber Festival. The weather finally turned cool, like it should be in mid October. I was getting pretty tired of 80 degree temps.
The festival was held in Corydon, Indiana. Corydon was the first state capital. Normally the drive would be very pretty this time of year, but not much color to see on the trees. We found more than enough color when we arrived.
I have lots more to show you, so much more that you will have to wait until tomorrow for Fiber in the Fall part #2
about the HHFF adventure. We saw a tractor trailer lying on its' side in a soybean field next to the expressway. A fifth wheel motor home was in the median on its' side still attached to the truck that had all four tires on the ground. We were on our way to eat at Cheeseburger in Paradise, right outside of Indy, when I saw a fish flopping in the middle of the road. Yes, I said a fish. A hotel pond was so flooded that fish washed over the banks. We saw lots of children playing in the flooded streets. Some of the water was up to their waists. The parents were watching from porches. On a few of the roads we saw miles of bumper to bumper cars.
We were able to drive the last 30 miles home on I-65 S. A total of sixteen state police cars were seen heading north.
We did not come home empty handed, at least mom and I did not.
I brought the white alpaca finger puppet home for Eli. He had wanted the
ones I got in my "swap on a budget" package.
Here are two hand painted skeins from "A Good Yarn" in Greenwood, Indiana. The green hues is 352 yards of 100% superwash Merino. The blues are not superwash. I will have to be more careful with that one.
This incredibly beautiful braid of fiber 
is 8 ounces of hand dyed 70% wool, 30% seacell from the extremely talented hands of Creative. 
Go have a look, it's worth it. I'll wait.
No this is not for me (oh how I wish it was). Nicole was not able to come with us, so she gave me some money and instructions last week at Tuesday night knitting. I hope she loves it. It's hard to pick something out for someone else. She definitely did not want any pastels.
This shiny rayon is going to be a One Skein Coin Bag. Mom bought it for me to knit for her from a dad and his two daughters. The daughters had made earrings and necklaces to sell. They also had cat toys filled with catnip.
I'm not even sure of all the stuff that mom got. I do know that she got a hat form and some roving for a new style felted hat.
Olivia and Mimi having a good time.
We found this really cool felted witch hat. Olivia said it was heavy.
Here she is sportin Mimi's new hat.I don't even know where to start. Let me go back to the beginning...it is too much....Let me sum up... Prince Humperdink is gonna marry Buttercup in little less than half a hour. No no that's the wrong story. (Focus, you can watch PB later)
We were a little behind starting out because my mom is still on her Florida retirement schedule. She's not eager to be up and on the go by 8:00 in the morning. But that is ok, she is home with us for now so I can let a little tardiness slid by. Anyway we were traveling with a wonderful group of ladies and they did not mind a bit of a delay.
So we were headed on the highway looking for adventure.........and lo and behold we found it about an hour up I-65. There was rain, lightening, some more rain, no visibility, lots more rain, and lightening, did I mention the lightening? You know how you can't keep your eyes open when you sneeze, well I have that same problem when driving in lightening. Also made little scared noises and let a few shits and damns loose. Right about this time one of my passengers looks on her phone and tells me that this area has had about 1,000 lightening strikes in the past 10 minutes. I will admit, I needed to get out of the car. So we spent a little time at a Marathon Station. When we did get back on the road, we had only had a couple more exits to go. We were finally in Franklin, IN (just south of Indianapolis) and found out that you can't get there from here. There was severe flooding in the town and some (most) of road were closed.
Now we were on a quest for fiber and yarn. After a brief discussion and a vote we decided that we were not going to let a little water stop us from getting to the Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival. In retrospect that may have not been the most wise decision, none the less we were determined to find a way to the yarn. The alternate route was a little out of the way but it gave us a great view of lots and lots of water. A cheer went up when we finally turned on Fairgrounds road. Everyone was soggy but in high spirits, we had made it to the yarn. It was a dismal sight but parking was good 
Becca found a wheel to play with. 
We did not see her until much later.
Some lovely fiber and hats.
Here we have some slightly damp angora bunnies.
There was much discussion at the fiber festival about how many of us were going to get home. If you needed to go south you were out of luck. A 50 mile stretch of I-65 South was closed 
and so was US 31. Many of the back country roads that would have taken us south were underwater. We talked about getting a hotel and waiting until today, driving about 100 miles out of the way, towards Cincinnati, and coming I-64 into Louisville. After stopping for dinner and later a DQ break we were able to find an open road that would take us south of Columbus where we could get on I-65 .
Central Indiana got about 10 inches of rain. Flood water reached the first floor of the Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin. The Hospital is several blocks from the fairgrounds where the fiber festival was held.
I have more but I am wore out all over again just from telling you. Many many hours were spent in the car. Come back by later.
I had a wonderful day at the Southern Indiana Fiber Festival, in historic Corydon, Indiana. Which,by the way was the original capital of Indiana.
There was so much to see and do. I will tell you about part of it now and save the rest for tomorrow. The first thing that made it such a wonderful day was the weather. Sunny and breezy with highs in the low 70's.
It was a perfect day for all the animals.
I love the angora bunnies.
They are so soft and cuddly. I wanted one. And I just happened to turn the corner and there was one for $35. I will admit that I contemplated it just for a moment.
This beautiful guy is getting combed and later she began to spin his bunny fur.
Just look at those faces.
But I came back to my senses, and stopped petting the bunnies.
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The Border Collies put on a great show. It truly amazes me to see them go through the paces. I could have watched them all day.
This guy can hardly wait for his turn with the sheep.
