The 2006 Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival has come and gone — and I spent a lot of money.

I of course bought yarn. A lot of it. I went on a bit of a Koigu rampage — I bought 9 skeins of it (I already had 3 of the skeins in the picture below — the blue/green ones that are wound into balls). I plan to knit Charlotte’s Web just as soon I get some other projects out of the way, and I will most likely also make one or two pairs of socks from the remaining Koigu. I also bought a skein of Opal sock yarn that will become a Christmas gift, and 3 skeins of some pretty teal DK weight wool that will most likely become a shawl of some sort.

I love the colors of the Koigu — just looking at them makes me feel good.

I also bought a bit of roving and a bottom whorl spindle — I’ve tried hand spinning before, but only with a top whorl spindle, and with some roving that wasn’t as nice as this. My friend B convinced me to give it another try. I definately like it better than I did before, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be a spinner.

Updated: I changed the size of the pictures because it was screwing up the way the site looked on some computers/browsers.