After a gruelling seven-hour trek from Bath, Jen (technical editor on The Knitter) and I finally made it to Woolfest – and immediately forgot how tired we were!
Fuelled by yarn fumes and the chance to meet face-to-face people we'd been emailling for months, we quickly perked up and started systematically looking around the dozens of stalls.
We found lots of amazing things (some of which will definitely be appearing in a magazine near you!) and chatted to loads of great people.
As a first reaction, though, I just have to say the show was absolutely fabulous, better than last year, if that's possible.
Working in an office full of yarn, you might think it would be easy to go to a wool festival and not buy anything. You'd be wrong. I reckon it's hard for any knitter to go to a show like Woolfest and not buy anything, but I'm pretty pleased with my haul (rather limited due to having to carry everything back on the train!)
This year, my have-to-have finds were a skein of sock yarn from Wild Fire Fibres and some pretty stitch markers from Daniela Kloppman's stand, Felt Studio UK. (Can't find them on her site but there's lots of lush handspun to oggle.)
I'm sure there are great things I missed, so do tell – what's in your shopping bag from Woolfest? Bonus points if you can link to pictures or the shop's site. (There's a bit of room left in my yarn budget, I'm sure!)
Happy knitting!
Elizabeth
Tuesday June 30, 2009 
