Rhinebeck

We've just started recovering from Rhinebeck on Saturday.  It was an absolutely wonderful day- but exhausting too!  So much to see and do (and buy).

The weather was stunning. warm with blue skies. 

 

Too warm for Adam to wear his new hat.

 

We hit the fleece sale first thing in the morning, and met some lovely people while standing in line-twice.

 

We ended up buying over 80 pounds of wool to spin into yarn for the mill.  Some gorgeous

Cormo, which I hope to make into light weight sock yarn and a LOT of springy Corriedale for medium sock yarn.  We also got some alpaca to blend with our CVM wool for some worsted weight that we hope will make some beautiful sweaters, hats and mittens. 

 

After the fleece sale we were off to the barns to check out all the shops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then we saw the animals:

 

 

 

 

 

Adam's parents bought these two Romney ewe lambs, Willow and Ivy, for their farm. 

 

 

 

And the sweater turned out pretty nice, even if it was a bit warm for it.