A visit to the first festival of the season

Barbara B., Cinzia, and I went to the Adirondack Wool and Arts Festival on Sunday a week ago because, you know, we needed our fix.😉 I don't know about you but this to me marks the beginning of autumn, even if it is 80 degrees out!

And a visit to the festival always has to include a stop at the Ice Cream Man for the best ice cream! But beware, their servings are huge. We each ordered the kiddie size and had more than enough to satisfy our sweet teeth.

Jan and Dorah attended the festival on Saturday and Jan bought yarn to make the Leftie Scarf which requires a contrasting yarn to make the little leaves. Each leaf on Jan's scarf will be a different color on the pastel variegated background. I'm looking forward to seeing it completed.

Barbara B. bought a "two-fer", or maybe I should say "three-fer", buy the yarn and pattern for fingerless mitts and get a thermo-insulated cup. But if she's going to use the cup for wine, she can't knit too. Friends don't let friends knit drunk!

Her other purchase was this project bag which included a hat pattern and enough DK weight yarn to make it. The blue and gold yarns came with the kit. The pretty burgundy and pink yarn jumped into her basket at another booth because it just HAD to be that hat.

 

I was also tempted by the same kit.

The hat is a double thick reversible hat with a solid inside and lace outside. The pattern was available only with the kit at the festival.

This was the DK weight yarn that came with the kit.

It's a baby alpaca which you know is as soft as a cloud!

When I walked past the Periwinkle Sheep booth, these beauties jumped into my bag, begging to be the same hat!😆

I finished my Helix reversible version of the Musselburgh Hat. The ladies talked me into keeping this one for myself so I immediately cast on for another to donate to our next project.

The thing I love most about this hat is that it is four hats in one! Look at the variety of ways to wear it!

On the right you can see Barbara K. working on her helix hat while Carole worked on her reversible Helix using variegated sock yarns too. She is almost at the halfway mark when...

She will start the second half of the hat with this gorgeous teal blue! It's going to be stunning!

Barbara B. is using a solid pink and a variegated rose to make this sweet baby cardigan for a friend's baby girl.

The Basic Raglan Baby Cardigan Sweater has a link on Ravelry for a free download.

Jan wanted to learn how to make the Latvian Braid and found a hat pattern with the feature but she didn't like the garter stitch edge so....

she decided to make a ribbed cuff instead. As she said, there are no knitting police that say you have to knit exactly what the pattern says.

She made the first one with the garter edge so she had the experience to change it. Nice braid Jan!

Maureen went stash diving to make a lap blanket for her husband. She's going to get to use up lots of leftovers for this one.

Cinzia started the cuff for the Sonoma Vines Toque which was offered for free the day it was released. 

Carole added a lovely pleated scarf to the inventory but she said it's a vintage pattern that is not in the Ravelry collections. It is made of a combination of stockinette and reverse stockinette and carefully placed knits and purls to create the pleats.

Cinzia added a few scarves to the inventory too. This first one is the Waldkind, a paid pattern on Ravelry. She made a few modifications with yarn weight and adjusting the shape of the leaf a bit.

And she had the last few balls of a novelty eyelash yarn to make two more scarves. The colorful bits are shiny satin and add a bit of sparkle to the fluffy yarn.

 We have a couple of more days of crazy warm weather before it starts feeling more like autumn so I better get my new hat started so I have a bunch of hats to rotate all winter long. I hope you're enjoying the sunshine and warm temps. Maybe you can even be outside while you keep those needles clicking!