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Manitoba Fibre Festival Part 2

9/12/2022

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I had spun 25 skeins for this market and what I have leftover I will be putting into my Etsy shop over the week.
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I also had a lot of patterns available as well as spinner starter kits.
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I did several readings using the Yarn Tarot on Saturday and it was a perfect deck for the event.
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I also had a few Unraveled Oracle decks with me that originally debuted at the Manitoba Fibre Festival in 2019 and sold all but 1.
The below felted farm was made by Arlette Seib!  Isn't it amazing?
And this gorgeous vest made out of natural fibres on display at the Pembina Fibreshed booth where they were demonstrating how to work with flax.
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I didn't get a picture of all the animals at the festival except this sweet baby cria with his mom.  You can see a Wensleydale sheep in the background.  There was also a Texel, Shetland, CVM, Cotswold and Romney.


Before heading home the next day we of course stopped at Baked Expectations and I got a piece of this German Chocolate Cheesecake.  It really is a hard decision, as I also wanted the Red Velvet, Pumpkin Cheesecake and there is a Peanut Butter Marshmallow Cheesecake (!).
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I slept most of the way home but I had a smile on my face that hasn't been there for a long time. 
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Manitoba Fibre Festival Year 10

9/12/2022

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It's been a while hasn't it?  Without going into why I have stepped back for a bit I'm just going to burst right in with what really brought me back.  The 10th year of the Manitoba Fibre Festival! 
This past weekend was a whirlwind of excitement, inspiration and community.  I missed this so much in the past couple of years.  I taught 2 workshops; Learn how to Spin on a Drop Spindle (which sold out) and Fleece to Finish.  I was also so lucky to be able to judge the wool show once again which is my true love.  
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These wonderful fleeces were the winners in their categories at the Manitoba Fibre Festival.
 Starting on top left and moving clockwise: 1st Fine White Rambouillet (Graham Rannie), 1st Fine Coloured CVM (Christel Lanthier), 1st Medium White Rideau Arcott (Leah Bouchard), 1st Long White, Reserve Champion Wensleydale/Texel (Gerry Oliver), 1st Long Coloured Supreme Champion Romney/Costwold (Gerry Oliver), 1st Speciality Icelandic (Julie Schneider)
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There were 39 fleeces that filled all 4 categories; Fine, Med/Down, Long and Speciality.  I was pleasantly surprised to see a breed I haven't encountered in my 10 years of judging and it was a Romeldale CVM (California Vertigated Mutant).  My favourite fleece from a sheep named Patches (winner in the fine/coloured above) was one of these CVM entries and they were all really very nice.
Thank you to Gerry of course for all she does gathering all the fleeces, preparing the prizes and running the auction (amongst so many more tasks!).  Also to my scribes Andrea and Kathleen, I couldn't have done it without you.

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