Today I had the honor of meeting another Etsy shop owner - Knitspin of Naperville, Illinois! Today the third annual Fiber in the Park Festival was held at Shabbona Park in Earlville, Illinois; it's a wonderful event and its popularity grows more each and every year, attracting vendors and shoppers from all over the midwest. Here we are, Knitspin and Lonesome Road Studio:
At the top, from bottom to top, here are some of the treasures that I found...
- Beautiful merino yarns; the green was purchased from Knitspin.
- Wonderful Tagua Nut buttons... "vegetable ivory" from the Amazon rainforest. The purchase of these buttons supports the employment of 35,000 native people, helping to maintain the trees and ultimately stabilize the rainforest. (Chong the Cat needed to inspect these.)
- Simple and richly colored recycled-sweater coasters by ReSweater; beautiful for the spare bedroom!
- And of course, I managed to find beads! These are "Soul of Somanya" beads, created in Ghana... "creating art, transforming lives."
- Adorable Shepherd's Pride Apple Spice goats milk soap from Vickie's Raspberry Hollow of Burlington, Iowa.
10 comments:
Great finds! I love that sheepish looking sheep ;-)...and the coasters are great too. How did kitty like the buttons?
Have a wonderful Sunday!
excellent finds, dude! i looooove those buttons! glad you had a good time there!
There were soooooo many other colors of the buttons too. One looked just like a pickle slice.
Those buttons are so cool!
I love the soap. I don't know that I could bring myself to use it, though.
The buttons are gorgeous, too. Nice haul!
I have grand intentions of learning how to felt that yarn. heh.
Great finds!!! I'm especially in love with the buttons! Do you know if they had a website?
-Jessica (smutopia.jewelry@gmail.com)
Thanks for showing my coasters! I had a great time, and wish I could have shopped & browsed more. I love those buttons!
OMG Resweater - that was YOU?!! Hi there!!! I need to check out your Artfire shop and add you to the post!!
Great finds!! What a great event.
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