Fiber Market Day

Spring Break- Day 7 (Sat. March 29)

No, not that kind of fiber....

Saturday we went to the High Desert Fiber Market Day in Prineville. It was really cool. Outside they had a little "petting zoo" with sheep, llamas and alpacas, and inside people were selling all kinds of wool from various animals in various stages of production. There was wool from different types of sheep, alpacas and llamas. Some of it was shorn and just dumped in a lawn bag, others were washed, others had been combed out, or felted, or spun and or knitted etc.

The girls are checking out Abby's unwashed wool (Abby was the name of the sheep)

There were classes throughout the day. Unfortunately we didn't get there until 2:30 and it ended at 4, so we only got to go to one class. The class we went to was called "Drop spinning." You can see how to do it here. It is how they spun wool before the spinning wheel! Above Samantha and Abby are practicing using the drop spindle with commercial yarn.Here is Elise with a drop spindle learning how to do it with real wool (no, she didn't spin all that yarn on there)

We enjoyed it so much we bought a spindle and some wool and are trying our hand at it at home. So when you come visit be sure to ask me to pull out the spindle and we'll give it a try.

I had told the kids that we would take them to Pappy's Pizza during Spring Break and as spring break was coming to a close we made our way over to Pappy's for supper. The Pappy's in Bend is pretty smelly and nasty, so we went to the Pappy's in Redmond. While still a little stinky from all the kids' stinky socks, shoes and sweaty bodies, the play structure was great, and they even had a "referee" keeping track of the kids. Check out this big slide! Take your typical McDs playland and multiply it by 2.5 times. Pretty fun and good pizza too.