Fiber Frolic
Today I went to the Maine Fiber Frolic - I missed it last year, and the weather was crap anyway.
Did not take pictures but did come home with some wool roving for spinning. Also found a pair of 7mm knitting needles which are terribly hard to find here (US #10.5 are usually 6.5mm and US #11 are usually 8mm and sometimes you want something in between.)
Weather was cool and breezy this morning, but warmed up nicely.
I did not buy a niddy noddy but am considering getting one. It would make yarn wrangling easier. I currently use either an old peg rack, or my elbow.
I have not gotten that much walking exercise in awhile and am now full of OW.
8:00 pm - edited to add:
Oh! any the reason I posted this in the first place (which I forgot about) - Fair Food. One of the joys of the Fiber Frolic is getting a chance to scope out the prices of fair food so I don't have sticker shock later in the season. Looks like everything's gone up a dollar this year across the board - doughboys (the local incarnation of Fried Dough With Stuff On it) are going for $5, plate meals in the $7-8 range, etc.
I bought a doughboy anyway because O Hai, FAIR FOOD! and this particular vendor had two clever ideas that I hope spread around. First, they had a pizza cutter and were happy to slice up your fried dough into wedges for easier sharing or indecisiveness with respect to toppings. Second, in addition to the customary powdered sugar, lemon curd, cinnamon sugar and maple syrup toppings, they also had two or three other kinds of fruit jam, "Bavarian Creme" which was a vanilla-pudding-like substance similar to the stuff you find in a creme-filled donut, and at the other end of the toppings shelf, they had salt and pepper, pizza sauce, and grated cheese.
So for lunch I had half the doughboy with pizza sauce and cheese on it, and the other half of the doughboy with "Bavarian Creme", cinnamon sugar, and maple on it.
I really like the savory-toppings-on-a-doughboy idea and hope it spreads around. It starts stretching the doughboy into fry-bread territory, which is not entirely a bad thing.
If I ever see a taco built on a doughboy, I'll let you know.
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Did not take pictures but did come home with some wool roving for spinning. Also found a pair of 7mm knitting needles which are terribly hard to find here (US #10.5 are usually 6.5mm and US #11 are usually 8mm and sometimes you want something in between.)
Weather was cool and breezy this morning, but warmed up nicely.
I did not buy a niddy noddy but am considering getting one. It would make yarn wrangling easier. I currently use either an old peg rack, or my elbow.
I have not gotten that much walking exercise in awhile and am now full of OW.
8:00 pm - edited to add:
Oh! any the reason I posted this in the first place (which I forgot about) - Fair Food. One of the joys of the Fiber Frolic is getting a chance to scope out the prices of fair food so I don't have sticker shock later in the season. Looks like everything's gone up a dollar this year across the board - doughboys (the local incarnation of Fried Dough With Stuff On it) are going for $5, plate meals in the $7-8 range, etc.
I bought a doughboy anyway because O Hai, FAIR FOOD! and this particular vendor had two clever ideas that I hope spread around. First, they had a pizza cutter and were happy to slice up your fried dough into wedges for easier sharing or indecisiveness with respect to toppings. Second, in addition to the customary powdered sugar, lemon curd, cinnamon sugar and maple syrup toppings, they also had two or three other kinds of fruit jam, "Bavarian Creme" which was a vanilla-pudding-like substance similar to the stuff you find in a creme-filled donut, and at the other end of the toppings shelf, they had salt and pepper, pizza sauce, and grated cheese.
So for lunch I had half the doughboy with pizza sauce and cheese on it, and the other half of the doughboy with "Bavarian Creme", cinnamon sugar, and maple on it.
I really like the savory-toppings-on-a-doughboy idea and hope it spreads around. It starts stretching the doughboy into fry-bread territory, which is not entirely a bad thing.
If I ever see a taco built on a doughboy, I'll let you know.
This entry was originally posted at http://panacea.dreamwidth.org/427851.html