When J, the Stuff Guy, asked what I wanted for Mother's Day, me, the Experience Girl, thought I want a mini vacation...then I remembered that the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival was sometime this month... and it turns out that some genius scheduled it for Mother's Day Weekend! So we hatched a plan to leave after Saturday morning kid stuff for a quick drive up north to Friendship Heights to stay the night and visit the Festival twice!
It is just full of interesting fiber related everything, music, story time, chatty sheep and as it turns out the best lineup of fair food - including the best and biggest eclair I've ever had. Story time in the late afternoon was the perfect break for little legs that really hung in there all over the fairgrounds. The storyteller had this memorable tale about toaster waffles bigger than Keaton that functioned like the sun...
I was on the prowl for chunky fibers that I could incorporate into tapestries similar to those at the Willette booth. I came home with quite a haul of fiber including some little gifts (recycled sweater bunny and tiny wreath and a hedgehog needle bag), a lucet (cool wooden tool that the boys think looks like Maleficent and makes square braided cording), and a kumihimo loom (Aiden was actually really interested in learning how to do this), and hexagonal shaped knitting needles (dreamy smooth wood made in Michigan).
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