OFFF Day

It was a busy day Saturday. After a lovely breakfast and a stop at my LYS for a few skeins of yarn I needed for projects, I headed south to Canby for the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival (OFFF). The morning was brisk and there had been a threat of rain murmured on the airwaves, but the day turned out to be perfect for a festival: warm but not too hot with some cloudiness to keep the outdoor vendors from cooking.

In past years I went by myself but this year I was with the PDX Knitbloggers. A rendezvous camp was set up on the green outside the main exhibition hall and near the spinners circle so while you were out checking vendors and animals you had a place to stash your things to be watched over. It was nice to have a place to go to knit and rest and chat with friends (not to mention share finds) then leave your purchases while you went to check out other vendors.

I was also there to receive the Kidnapped Can Opener. It was good that I was with a group because after a half hour had passed from our rendezvous time I was itching to go. I had a wheel to swap and vendors to peruse. While I was gone the KCO arrived and endured the photo taking of my fellow bloggers until I arrived to take it on its own journey of OFFF.

There was an Irish wolfhound show going on nearby. This is one of the smaller ones.

Spinners circle

Junior spinning competition

Lynnel and Linda of Rowan Tree Woolery with the Suzie and the KCO

Pygora goats

Jacob sheep

Bactrian camels (2 humpers)

Exhausted from an afternoon of fiber fondling