Lambtown was last weekend. A lot has happened since then–I’ve been on a little get-away to Lake Tahoe while at the same time there are still terrible fires raging to the west of us. But this post is to share some photos from Lambtown.

This is one reason that I looked forward so much to my Lake Tahoe trip. The Lambtown weekend was non-stop and those of you who go to shows as vendors know that it’s not just the event, but the time leading up to it and the time trying to get organized afterwards. One vendor described it to someone by saying, “Imagine packing up everything from your living room, loading it into a trailer, setting it up in a new location, two days later taking it all down and loading the trailer, then unloading and setting up your living room again.”

The morning of the vendor set-up day I taught a class, “Getting Fancy with the Rigid Heddle Loom”.

This is the booth, taken by Dona the next day. The wall to the left showcases the yarn that I’ve been dyeing for the last couple of months along with some of the finished pieces.

This is some of that yarn. I’m still amazed that the peachy looking yarn is the second batch through the coreopsis pot that produced that rust colored yarn next to it.

I don’t have many photos of anything else at Lambtown because I was so busy either in the booth or teaching or at the end of Sunday, in the barn showing sheep.

On the second morning I taught a class called Warping Your Loom at Warp Speed. I didn’t want to teach longer than an hour Saturday morning because the point of having a vendor booth is to be there and sell things. In the class showed how I can wind a 5-yard chenille warp, get it on the loom and ready to weave in a short time. At home I can do it in 50 minutes. In this case it was about an hour and a quarter and I hadn’t tied it on to the front bar. But I had been talking and teaching through that time. I think that wasn’t bad. The one thing that I forgot to bring (after remembering at 11:30 the night before that I should have packed the warping frame) were the ties to secure the warp chain. I used up what extra thread was around and then someone pointed out that I had baling twine hanging out of my pocket. That worked.

I had also brought a few things to enter in the fiber arts show. That is one of the ponchos that will be in the Artery show.

Sunday morning I brought a sign for Buster’s pen.

Then I taught a three-hour class on learning to use the rigid heddle room and learning to work with rags (fabric strips) at the same time. 

It’s fun to see how the fabric looks when it is cut and woven.

Don’t you love how this fabric works up in a woven piece?

I’ll do another post about the sheep show.