I have a fiber radar. :D

This past weekend I visited the Bay Area Renaissance Festival (which I used to work as a cast member). Brian and I were just about ready to leave, and were making a last-second trip down a lane I thought we’d missed, and at the end of which I thought I spied a woodworker vendor who’d done the Florida Renaissance Festival. On the way, we spotted our friend Libby at a glass booth; and since Brian was looking for someone, she said we ought to go around the other way on our way to the woodworker’s booth, past the ice cream line, to ask if anyone there had seen the guy Brian was looking for.

Well, Brian got caught up talking to people, and I wandered on ahead, ready to peek into the woodworker’s booth and come back, figuring I’d say in sight…

...and lo! Right between the ice cream booth lane and the woodworker’s lane there was a tiny booth with a tri-loom out front. And just the other side of the tri-loom were three spinning wheels. One was antique. And I got to spin on the Ashford Traditional they had—I can spin on a wheel. :D (And now I freshly want one. Grr. ;)) They also had spindles in the booth, and I snatched the last Greensleeves Lady Barbara they had. At least, it looks like a Lady Barbara, although the price doesn’t match up with the prices online.

I also told the guy in the booth, the blacksmith—the booth itself is owned by someone with my name, too ;), and their shop just moved like fifteen minutes away from where Brian lives—that I went hunting for spinning wheels on the FLaRF site, and managed to find two: one in the weaver’s booth and one, nearly at the last second, in the re-enactors’ camp.

So my fiber radar is still working, and now I have some new friends in the area who might teach me to use a loom sometime in the future. Most awesome.