Fiber Fool

While in Colorado Springs before the wedding we did no tourist stuff as we had originally planned. I had increasing back spasms giving me trouble so we decided to just lay low for the most part. We were staying at a B&B in Old Colorado City, just 1/2 block off of the main shopping and dining area there. So Thursday we just wandered out for dinner at Gertrude’s, a nice restaurant that is especially vegetarian friendly.

On Friday morning after our breakfast we wandered the shopping and dining area more. I also popped into two different fiber shops in the area - Green Valley Weavers and Holly Berry House. At the top of the post is a look at 1 ounce of the 3 ounces of angora I bought at Green Valley Weavers. It is from Woodlake Woolies (contact me if you’d like contact info) out of Elbert, CO. I’m excited to give this a try!

At Holly Berry House I picked up a skein of sock yarn. I have worked with Araucania yarn before and loved it. I was excited to see sock yarn from them. It was a hard pick on what color I wanted. There was a semi-solid orange/rust that I really liked and a few multi-colored ones I liked as well. But I held strong and just came home with color 108. I think it might match close enough to my linen skirt I made last year.

Even though we didn’t ride the cograil or visit any of the museums it was a very nice and relaxing mini vacation anyway. The hot tub on the balcony of our room was very helpful to my back such that I withstood the wedding festivities without too much trouble. Now we’ll just have to plan another trip down that way to be tourists.