Animal Parade: My First NY Sheep & Wool Festival

This past weekend, I got to spend time with my friend Michelle and our friend Patty Lyons (knitting teacher extraordinaire) at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival. It was my first year ever going to the event, informally known as Rhinebeck because of its location, and Patty, her husband, and Michelle were the consummate guides to this lovely and fiber-filled shindig.

I know that my crafty friends and readers will be wondering about what yarn I purchased, but sad to say, the answer is “not a whit.” I’m currently all stocked up on fiber for myself, so instead I purchased some food for gifts, fancy goats’ milk soaps for gifts, some stockinette stitch earrings from Jennie the Potter, some wine from Tousey Winery, and a Crippenworks case as a gift too. (Can you tell I mostly ended up gift shopping?)

After the festival (and an extremely long and arduous drive of less than 15 miles—don’t ask), we also went to a lovely dinner at Miss Lucy’s Kitchen in Saugerties, despite the blood-thirsty zombies outside. Then Michelle and I braved the rain to get back to my parents’ house, where we crashed. This morning, we got up and picked some cherry tomatoes in their garden before heading back to New York, which is basically my idyllic Sunday ideal.

Basically, it was a great weekend, filled with good company, adorable animals, and that first touch of true autumn cold. All’s well.