Gorgeous! Please oh please tell me the name of the colorway with the uneven striping and that great blue! And was that the Spirit Trails sock yarn? I MUST HAVE IT! Thanks for sharing. We're all drooling.

That roving is so pretty - what a thoughtful gift!

Did you buy a wheel? Or are you still using Kerstin's?

Ohhh where to start?? The Spirit Trails sock yarn is absolutely the prettiest I have ever seen!!! The mitten is off to a good start too!

All this great yarn!!!! I'm so jealous!!!!

OOHHH! GREEN MOUNTAIN SPINNERY!! SPIRIT TRAIL!! TONGUE RIVER FARM!!! I'm feeling faint.......

And that roving....oohhhhhhhhhh. What a blast!! And seeing Leigh & Norma--how fun!! I'm getting a vicarious charge just reading about it! So glad you had fun!

Those kilt hose are to die for. If you want the free pattern link, it's on my blog.....

I should have followed you! I expected to come home with a trunk of yarn and came home with wine and cheese instead (I am a fan of "wine crafts.")

It was fun to see you again!

Thanks for posing for a picture with SwatchGrrl! I just love seeing your Rhinebeck haul. Thanks for being a part of my vicarious experience of it!

Hi Sandy! It was great to meet you (for 5 seconds) on Saturday :o)

Nice haul you have there! ;o)

Wow that's a great haul Sandy! The t-shirt the Norma gave you is so cute!

Great haul! I couldn't resist Tongue River Farm either .... the softness, the delicate colors, mmmmmmmm.

And the pink stuff is Wonderfully Pink. Bethany's roommate will love her scarf.

(oh, I have some gloves finished for Warm Hands: http://woolyheaded.blogspot.com/2006/10/chicken-minus-head-me.html, bottom of the post)

Sandy, I think you'll find knitting the Icelandic socks to be therapeutic!The yarn is so luscious. I've made 2 pair and a third is on the needles. The patterns, esp. heels can be a little tricky, but make a wonderfully warm sock. I, too, saw a couple Utili-kilts at Rhinebeck. My son has one (plays drums in a pipeband and picked one up at Scottish Games) Lotsa fun! I'd best knit him up some nice rugged hose to go w/them. Thanks for sharing your inspiring purchases!

I love socks that strip with different thicknesses - I'll have to check out that sock yarn - and I don't blame you - it is very hard to resist.

I, for one, would love to see blog entries in Latin. But that's the classics major in me coming out.

So glad I met you, mitten pal. Loved your sweaters, will have to make room for some Peace Fleece soon. Thanks for the pic of kilt man, was so curious.Will you be going to the Fiber Twist?

My mom does say that thing about Carter and his liver pills. Until this year I thought it had something to do with Jimmy Carter (I think I was in elementary school when he was pres.) I just found out what it really meant this past spring when i asked my mom what the crap she was talking about. Funny. Love the loot, by the way,speaking as another girl who didn't stick to the list.

Yet another great Rhinebeck haul, I'm going to need therapy if I keep reading all of these. Retail Therapy!

maybe i can get mark to wear a kilt, theni won't feel so bad about missing rhinebeck. oh honey!

Ok, I'm dying to know where I can buy a shirt like that... spill the goods! Rinebeck isn't that far from NH... I'm so going next year!

i wish that i could have gone this year. i would have totally been broke

Oh, my mother used to say that too! I love the mitten kit.

Should the world come to an end and Bearfoot ceased to arrive at the LYS, I have as much as I would ever need, and I would share with you. How about some knee socks like Dave's in Bearfoot? yummmm.

what great stuff you got! how can I be jealous if I was there? I don't know, but I am.

I love seeing everyone's haul! The best part of knitblogging is all the sharing, I think. I'm glad you had a wonderful time, and your purchases are awesome. I'm lovin' the pink!

Green, I am! Green with envy. Gorgeous haul, Sandy!

I somehow missed going to Green Mountain Spinnery this year...I don't know how I did that. You got some awesome stuff! I didn't know Fleece Artist sold rovings. Yum!

You are going to love knitting those tongue river socks! I made them for my DH a few years ago and he loves them :-)

Hey Sandy...check out my blog! I'm doing sky shots now in your honor. :-)

nice haul

i do love that fleece artist roving there that you got from paula. gah.

There was a man in kilt?

I have to go next year.

Oh, and, Sandy? Your stash needed new friends.

Good stuff! Maybe more than you had planned, but well chosen, and not likely to marinate for long periods of time.

You bought great stuff! I know what you are talking about with Vermont Spinnery. Sadly, I missed Tongue River :-( -- the sock collection kit looks fantastic.

Wow! Did you ever score on tons of fibery goodness. Yeah, I'm wicked jealous of you, just so you know.

I knit my first-ever socks with Bearfoot and I'm A Believer. Love that stuff. Man, that apple-colored Fleece Artist roving is positively juicy! Nice stuff all around, Sandy. ; )

I have a bumper sticker from the girl that makes those T-shirts. It says "Spin free or Dye". I love it.

After 2 car rides with you, how did I miss the fact that you love Mountain Colors yarn? I love it too, though have a hard time finding the Bearfoot in LYS's. And when I do, it's not the colors I really covet. The shirt is great- is Norma willing to share her source? A definite must have.

OMG, my mother used to say that all the time. I haven't heard it since she died. Thanks for the flashback.
How funny, I recognized the bearfoot. I have socks on the needles right now in that lovely stuff, and just those two sock toes apparently make me a bearfoot expert. (Either that or it's so beautiful it's hard to miss.)
Love that shirt.

I ENTIRELY believe that you had intentions of not buying yarn this year . . . although I think that if you really expected to STICK to it, you may have been deluding yourself just a little. It's like going to a feast and having nothing but a glass of water. Or to the beach and staying in the hotel room the entire time. It might not be all about the buying, but, well . . you have to buy SOMETHING!

Knitting for the roommate will be a great bonding thing for Bethany, you know. It is, therefor, your motherly duty to do this.
And the t-shirt from Norma? I simply MUST have one. Wherever did she get it?

Poor Dave. Dave has all these crazy women checking out his blog now. He's probably like, "why? Why did I go?"

You done good Sandy!
Whish I could have been there!

Excellent haul!

I'd say your body is appropriately exhausted. Mine's still recovering. And if I'd known Norma brought some of her home made jam, I'd have rolled her for it. Seriously. Damn.

So nice to get to meet you in person. I really like that part. My one regret is that I didn't get enough hanging out time in.

I feel the strange urge to shop! You made an excellent haul there! Nice! I love the teenage eye rolling thing. I imagined a device attached to their little heads, like an odometer. The mileage they could roll, huh?
I'm really wanting to shop for yarn now...but I have to wipe the drool off the keyboard. Got towels?