Yay for wool-fiber-county fairs! I'm going to one in October and I'm already excited about it--I would squeal if I were that kind of person. Which I almost am.

I look forward to pics. All I've posted lately are summaries of my vacation. *shrug* Let's just say I had a good time in both places (VA and CO). :-)

Did they have a Sheep-to-Shawl competition? Those always sounded like they'd be cool to watch, although I harbor doubts about the wearability of the shawl produced.

Sounds like a much more sensible approach. No weed bits/dirt/wads o' lanolin, and it's gotta be a lot faster and easier to card!

Did you score any wonderful yarn?

Oooooh - sounds soft!

I'm finishing up my fifth pair of Fuzzyfeet slippers</a> (wintergifts for my siblings) and while they've been fun to knit, I'm starting to get a hankering to play with something other than good ol' Cascade 220 worsted...

I kept running into your OH over the weekend. If I'd known about the Mendocino County Fair, though, I would have been running into you instead.

Cool! I took Arthur to the Santa Cruz County Fair Thursday -- while it doesn't have any particular fiber-arts emphasis, at the same time you do see a fair amount of knitted/woven/quilted/etc. work there. When I saw the braided rugs I thought that maybe I should just try to make a new kitchen door mat/rug to replace the current disintegrating one, instead of looking through catalogs that never seem to have the right kind of thing anymore.

I once purchased a rug/mat crocheted from bread bags from eBay (out of morbid curiousity; I think it may have shown up on "Who Would Buy That?" or a similar venue). I was distinctly underwhelmed by it -- it fell apart fairly quickly under very light usage (outdoors, where the furry plasticovores couldn't gnaw on it). Given how much lighter plastic grocery bags are (and the fact that some of them are designed to photodegrade), I'm not all that optimistic about their viability as a crochet material.

oooooh I'm jealous!