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3/2/2004 3:51:38 PM
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Is anyone from this site planning to go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival? I might be able to get there...
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3/3/2004 5:58:59 AM
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Cate
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If you go, look for the Horse Brooch jewelry. My friend Bev Yoakley makes wonderful enamel pins of dogs, horses, sheep, foxes, etc. She is really nice & very funny. I was going to apply to be a vendor but have a conflict that weekend. I have heard great things about the festival.
Cate
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3/3/2004 6:12:34 AM
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What do you sell? You can e-mail me at denchief@earthlink.com
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3/29/2004 5:49:59 PM
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Pat
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It sounds like some of you are planning to come to the festival here. I live outside of Baltimore MD, and I go to the festival every year. I will be there on Sunday with my husband. He does not knit but he has learned an appreciation of the fibers and the colors. If anyone needs any advise or help getting a hotel or place I don`t mind doing some research as it won`t be long distance for me to call around. If anyone would like to try and meet let me know. PatW
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3/30/2004 4:56:52 AM
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Les
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What`s with that - a husband who "has learned an appreciation of the fibers and colours". How the heck did you do this??
Les
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3/30/2004 7:37:52 AM
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Pat
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Well, my DH is a wine expert and I have learned to appreciate good wine over the years, so I guess its only fair. Plus, he gets to wear the fruits of my labor. I have to admit though that he has a very good eye for color and what colors make good accents. When we go to the Wool Festival Marc, likes to look for interesting buttons to go with the vests I`ve made him over the years, and he likes to watch the sheep dog demonstrations.
How did you get interested in knitting?
PatW
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3/30/2004 8:37:07 AM
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Les
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I absolutely love watching the sheep dog trials too! They are simply amazing dogs. I love their body language when they are working!!
My latest revival of knitting I think was when I started to knit for my great nieces and cousins kids, just in the past while. My niece`s husband is Norwegian and his grandma used to knit all of the grandkids beautiful norwegian mittens. she is quite elderly and doesn`t knit much anymore so Dan wanted to learn how to knit and is in competition with his brother. Dan is a student right now so hasn`t had time to come back for instructions for a while now. Then I found Elann and can afford to work on a stash!! The rest is history.
Lesley
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3/30/2004 3:04:13 PM
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Pat, we already have a hotel, but how nice of you to offer to call around for us! Maybe we can make arrangements to meet for refreshments? I`m at denchief@earthlink.net
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3/30/2004 4:30:47 PM
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benne
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Oh boy, Les, Pat W`s your fine wine connection! I can see it now, you`re plotting to get the Maryland Wool Festival so you can pick her DH`s brain. And you`ll let on like you`re there for the yarn and the sheepdogs. lol
Benne
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3/30/2004 8:39:38 PM
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Les
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You caught on!!! I DO think I could show some enthusiasm for his passion - wine that is! Oh, my!! LOL
Les
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3/31/2004 5:36:57 AM
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jeanflores
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Hey Les,
I love watching the dogs work too. It`s amazing. If anyone is interested I have home video of a bunch of fiber related stuff (including shearing and sheep dogs working, a mill spinning Shetland yarns....)that I took when we visited Shetland in 97. Maybe I could make a copy of it and we could do a round robin to pass it around instead of me making 50 copies of it. lol.
Email me if anyone is interested and I`ll make up a list.
Peace,
Jean
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3/31/2004 5:37:36 AM
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jeanflores
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pfft. I guess my email might help:
danandjeanflores@aol.com
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3/31/2004 8:17:06 AM
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Pat
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Les,
My husband used to be a wine manager of a liquor store and he put on tastings at the store and area restaurants. He is very knowledgeable about all kinds of wine. He has a philosophy that there is no stupid question about wine. However, after many years in the retail business he decided he wanted a life:) So he is in the banking business now and trying to find a life beyond wine. For the first time in many years of marriage we have our weekends off together:)
What kinds of wine do you like? I like almost everything but Alsatian wines; I find them too mineral for me. I like reds the best, but whites can also be wonderful. Does Canada have any vineyards? Maryland is just starting to produce some good wines. Having gone to the Maryland Wine Festival for many years, my DH and I have seen the vineyards here mature and the quality of the wine produced here is getting very good.
Is anyone here into cooking? For some years, my DH and I were part of a gourmet wine group that put good food together with good wine. Our lives all got too busy and the group disbanded. It was a lot of fun.
My DH and I are also avid readers. He reads mostly science fiction and I read mysteries. I`m a big fan of P.D. James and Elizabeth George, but I also read many others.
Enough for now. Nice to talk to you. PatW
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