On Saturday I went to the
Handknitter's Guild's Wool and Craft Fair at the Brunswick town hall. It was really good, like a mini Bendigo Sheep and Wool show (and without the sheep).
There were lots of wool and fiber producers there
- Dairing who have a knitwear shop in Richmond and stock Habu yarns. I'd heard about them but never seen them until now, very unusual!
- Andyle who had lovely coloured wool grown on their farm in Tarneit Victoria.
- Shiloh Wool who have coloured fleeces and combed wool for spinners from Bellaraine Victoria.
- Lara Downs who have angora goat and lots of other luxury fibers and are from Balliang Victoria and they've also opened a new retail outlet called Precious Purl at 397 Bruswick St Fitzroy. I can't find a website for them but their card says they're open Wed-Sat 11-4 phone 0423 514 668.
- Ixchel angora bunnies! They have other fibers too but I love the bunnies!
And there were more of course but I didn't get their business cards.
I bought some 14 ply wool from Shiloh and wound it into a ball using my brand new ball winder and swift from
Morris & Sons. It was so fun to wind it, my husband, sister and dad all watched the process with interest too :) I'm going to try dying it myself, eep! (yeah probably should've left it in the skein but I couldn't resist trying out the ball winder)
