Spa was ages and ages ago now but I was not able to finish my post about it before vacation. I am sad about that so I am just pretending that it was last week instead. Way back machine- wee!

(As a side note, you know you are one of those crazy blogger types when there are 2 cars full of your in-laws downstairs waiting for you to go catch a flight and you are yelling to your husband to have them wait a second because your post is uploading. Ahem.)

Anyway, where where we?

So, we had this room in the Hampton Inn that Kelle (the wonder that she is) finagled for us with the management. It was a room totally for spinning. No beds, nothing but chairs and lamps (and booze and food).

We all sat in there talking about various important subjects like infant circumcision, my hatred for The Big Lebowski (I still don’t think the rest of the Boston group has forgiven this flaw in my character- hehe), lots of fiber and spinning talk, and the general geographic location of the Upper Peninsula in relation to the rest of Michigan.

We realized halfway through the latter discussion when, I think, Kellee (again with the brilliance) pointed out that Maya was wearing the perfect demonstration tool: her ‘Michigan: America’s High Five’ t-shirt. Also, knitting needle? Great pointer.

(Kellee, Elisa, Debbie, Maya and Jackie)

But what did I buy? Oh, what didn’t I buy….

As I mentioned, Amy Boogie weaves a wicked spell. I accidently went to her booth about 10 times and some of her stuff just jumped on me. It wasn’t my fault. (I am so pissed that I didn’t get a picture one of those ten times because she has the coolest handpainted hair too. Super cool.)

So first up is some Corriedale in her Autumn colorway. Laurie showed me the wonders of pre-drafting… it is an art, is it not? I have done some half-hearted pre-drafting up until this point but now I am a total convert. You must click to see the squishy!

I think this is destined to be a Spring Cap- if I can somehow figure out how to make a big happy yarn out of my singles. Maybe a 4 ply shoe box lazy kate? hmmm.

More Amy goodies: left and second from the top is her Skinny Socks (handpainted superwash merino) in Aztec, right and top is the same yarn in the Chocolate Covered Cherries colorway. The two free mini skeins (yay!) on the bottom are fabulous too but the colorways are not marked.

Then, more of Amy’s fiber: Blue-Faced Leicester in Neopolitan on left and more Corriedale in the middle, Vineyard colorway

I forget where the left came from- don’t have a tag. It is a mohair blend though. And the right one! Oh my goodness, it is unbelievable… so soft. Indigo Moon Farm’s Camel and Silk.

I think this picture wraps it up very nicely- Spa yay!

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