The Fiber Frolic was… interesting. I probably should have done a lot more reading about the event than just what’s on the website, because it was really not much like what I was expecting. I was expecting… well, something bigger, and lots more yarn. It was mostly roving and fleeces and raw fiber stuffs like that, and for the most part, the yarn was very bulky. If you’re a spinner, it would have been paradise. I, unfortunately, am not a spinner, and I’m also a knitter on a skinny-yarn kick. It was lovely to sink my fingers into all the gorgeous rovings, but I went there expecting to spend gobs of money, and actually, it was kind of a struggle to spend as much as I did!
In retrospect, I should have taken more pictures of the booths, and the yarns, and I have no idea why I didn’t, other than I was too busy taking pictures of OMG ALL THE CUTE AMINALS SQUEE!!, and I was kinda underwhelmed by the rest of it. But what pictures I did take are here. There are a lot of awful cute ones of us holding baby cashmere goats, which actually did make the Frolic worth the 2-hour drive in my mind.
Of course, I did buy SOME yarn and whatnot. I was pretty much exclusively in the market for laceweight yarn, and it was kind of a struggle to find any, but I prevailed. 
The gorgeous plum-variegated cashmere is from Springtide Farm, the farm also responsible for letting me snuggle with the kids - that little 1-ounce skein is enough for the scarf pictured, which she threw in the pattern for.
The dark spruce merino and turquoise tencel are from Pinestar Studio, an absolutely lovely woman by the name of Linda who does custom dyeing and had some truly gorgeous rovings, too. Most of what she had at the show was laceweight, so I loved her immediately - haha. I haven’t been to her site yet, but she said she was a little more regular about updating her blog than her site.
The tie-dyed rovings are a curly-textured merino and tencel blend, and are from The Sheep Shed. Donna uses a bundle of the fiber and a special felting technique to make the most GORGEOUS felted scarves you can imagine. You know how most felts are stiff and very… um… woolly? This felt like silk, with a beautiful drape. I don’t know if I’ll attempt to spin these or felt them, but either way, seeing the finished product was enough to convince me.
The last of the purchases were a little hank of fuschia silk and a big chunk of alpaca seconds - all together, they cost me a mere $5. I should have grabbed a card or something, but honestly, the girls working the booth made me feel a little awkward - nothing major, just not a friendly “click” like I got with most vendors there. They told me, as I walked away, that alpaca wasn’t a good fiber to learn how to spin with. I shrugged. For $5, do I care if I ruin it? Not particularly.
The only person I recognized there, from Ravelry or otherwise on the ‘nets, was Amy. I should have said hi, I know, but I’m terminally shy and a horrible conversationalist, and she was already spinning and talking to someone else at the same time, so I just petted her yarns and moved on. Adam gave me crap about that, as well he should. I do need to work on this whole shy-and-awkward thing.
Anyway, despite it not being quite what I thought it was going to be, it was a fun time. It was a gorgeous, if hot, day - perfect for a drive, so we took all backroads and really made a trip out of it. On the way home, we stopped in Bangor for sushi, a traditional ending to ‘most every downstate trip we take. In between, there were cute animals, lovely people, and YARN. What more could a girl ask for?
