Fluffbuff

  This morning I headed down to Santa Monica's Fabulous Fiber Fest with Una and Theresa.

Outside the building were several spinners and an area with alpaca crias. This baby was feeding from a bottle while two black crias were feeding on grass in an enclosure.

Cute, well-behaved and with the daintiest eyelashes and toenails.

This year my focus was all on textiles, so I didn't take many pictures of yarn or spinning fiber, but I could't resist Trish Andersen's yarns. I ran into Trish at a bead vendor where she was looking for beads to incorporate into a new line of pure cashemere yarn she is about to launch. Her yarns (Tanglewood Fiber Creations) are as soft and lovely to the touch as they are beautiful to look at. No website yet, but it's coming soon.

Several bead vendors.

Some beautiful jewelry.

Ah, the beautiful fabrics! I had been looking for great plaids and striped fabrics for a while and today, finally, I found them at Azabu-ya.

Many stunning quilts on display throughout the show.

Many wowen items, as well.

Unfortunately, Habu Textiles was missing this year, but maybe that's just as well, because I didn't have the budget for their line of yarns.

This was really a good day, in very good company — I also ran into a lot of friends from my spinning guild — and I bought some fabrics to start my quilting stash. More about that in a moment.