World Wide Spin in Public Day 2010

We were up bright and early to head down to the Hillsboro Farmer's Market to setup for the World Wide Spin in Public day event. Brandon put up the sign he printed out for us. Sari was there minutes after we arrived and helped move the three tables and chairs around so that we could spin easily. Yes, the market setup three canopies, provided three tables and a slew of chairs for us - how nice!!

The market had moved us down to 3rd and Main Street in front of Gimre's Shoe Store instead of where we've been in the past for events, next to the fountain at the Civic Center. This turned out to be a better place for us. We had lots of people stop by and watch and talk with us. A few got to try their hand at drop spindling and Rachel C even let a little girl try out her wheel.

Angela's wheel was being crank, so I pulled out one of my gem stone drop spindles. I think she had fun spindling after a long time away.

Cindy's hand to the left with her turkish drop spindle. Kathy in blue on the right is a new drop spinner. We started her at the Spin-In this last February. She won some pretty purple Knitted Wit roving in the door prizes. She'll be spinning more!

Rachel and I played dueling cameras. Hers is really nice.;-)

Gail, Bobbie and Sari, with the back of Rachel C's head. 

Shelia, Duffy, and Chris (she had a bin of temptation that I resisted) and Cindy's elbow. This is what happens when you try not to take photos of someone's @$$, you get other creative bits of them instead. LOL

Rachel without a camera in her face. 

A nice gentleman watched us spin with his little blind Pomeranian and was nice to bring us a dozen mini-cupcakes from Tamera's Treats. I had one of them and they were delicious! I decided after picking up lunch from a vendor to bring back a dozen for the family. They're moist and tasty. Her lemon one had curd inside and a nice lemon cream, wonderful after the disappointment of the lemon-berry by Saint Cupcake.

I had also brought Leeloo with me. She took it upon herself to defend our area from all the dogs. Especially the big dogs. I did try to get her to meet them and some of the meetings were more successful than others. She did much better with all the small dogs and flirted with the little boy dogs the most. 

I didn't bring my wheel because I was worried about the weather, we did get sprinkled on a bit towards the end. I did sit down and start spinning with one of the drop spindles and one of the lovely samples from Rogue Adventures. I finished it up last night. The drop spindle and my bag of goodies:

How was your event?

WWSiP 2010 Bag Assembly

Wednesday night at Whole Foods I had more bags come in, and I'd also picked up ten bags earlier in the day. There was fiber, labels, soap and coupons dropped off too. Then there was dividing up fiber into sample bags, photos to take, then the stuffing began....

From Robyn

From Chandra

From Kathleen (her DH works with Rachel's DH)

From Chris and her Upstream Alpacas

Cindy brought cards, coupons and Dicentra fiber samples for Urban Fiber Arts (Opening September 27th!)

Rosemary Spearmint Soap from Peace of Soap

Rachel's i-cord distaff's

Carissa Marie's alpaca came in today, but since I was showing tidbits in the bags.....

My awesome assembly crew Angela, Rachel and Duffy with the stuffed bags.

Bag and contents (minus the alpaca from CM)

Duffy also brought some 'fiber buns' that she had fun creating on her drum carder. I've put a couple each into the bags that Chandra made, we also had three bars of soap extra, that also went into bags. These and a pretty braid from Lorajean, some Icelandic fleece I've received, a lovely chocolate alpaca fleece are some of the door prizes we'll have for people too. Sheila has also promised some goodies from her fiber room for the door prizes.

Now, hopefully the rain we have been getting will hold off until after our event. While canopies are provided, I really don't want to haul all of this and the sign in the rain. Selfish of me I know!

Would love to hear about others WWSiP events they attend, or if you just stay home and spin what you spin. ;-)

A little temptation....

I've been receiving fiber from local dye artists for the upcoming World Wide Spin in Public day event on September 18th. This is our second one and we'll be at the Hillsboro Farmer's Market again. They provided us with two canopies last year, which was really nice since we had rain last year. We have our fingers crossed for sun this year, or a nice cloud cover without rain. ;-)

So to tempt you with some of the fibers coming in thus far....

Stitchjones merino in Baby Chartreuse

Knitted Wit BFL in Purple Crayon

Knitted Wit BFL in Birds of a Feather

coupons and pencils from Knitted Wit

Pico-Accuardi Dyeworks SW Merino in Indigo or Corriedale in "OFFF" along with their buttons and a coupon to use at Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival

Rogue Advetures BFL in Pheasant

Fiberqat has sewn up ten goodie bags that are big enough to carry a drop spindle in that we'll be handing out.  Aren't they pretty? (Check out her Sept 12 blog post for pic)

Carissa Marie has some alpaca samples that she'll be sharing and possibly a fleece for a door prize.  Other door prizes are being arranged. There's more fiber samples coming in too! There's also the i-cord distaff's made by Trtlgrl and I plan to make some diz's to add to the bags. Duffy will have her drum carder there and some batts made out of the exploded clown fluff that Tiggywinkleknits received last year. She says she's calmed down some of the outrageousness of the colors. ;-) Tiggywinkleknits will have some of the clown fluff and some CD drop spindles for people to try their hand at spinning. Trtlgrl also talked to a soap vendor and they are supposed to be providing some soap samples. 

If you're local to the area and a spinner, I hope we see you 9am-1pm at the Farmer's Market. (We'll only have on a first come first get 20 goodie bags available.) If you're not local and a spinner, I hope you have a great event to attend!