Local Fiber Farms!

LFLF visited the Pittsburgh Knit & Crochet Festival  today and checked out some fiber farms scattered among the various vendors from around Pennsylvania & surrounding states.  We are partial to exploring and finding farmers & local growers who craft & create art from their own animals.   Several local fiber farms were here with a great assortment of yarns, felt, fiber, & knitted items.  Stop in on Sunday if you get the chance ..... and there's always next year!   Here are a couple of local farms ....
Shadyside Farm Studio
Star Weaver Farm - SWF Fiber Innovations

Local Farms .... Local Fiber!

Your virtual tour of local farms has swerved away from the usual food offerings/musings and turned toward local fiber. Over the weekend, the road less traveled took us to the Pittsburgh Knit & Crochet Festival. There were several "fiber farms" from Pennsylvania selling some beautiful yarns, garments, and wool products. The top picture is Puckerbrush Farm of Shelocta, PA. BTW foodies, Puckerbrush Farm is also a member of Penn's Corner Farm Alliance, so check out their web-site and CSA.

This next picture of the McMahon Fiber & Rabbitry booth says it all! Everyone was gathered around the Angora rabbits so it took a while to get this shot. Dunn Spun Yarns had really nice hand-spun natural colored yarns and beautiful hand-turned wooden knitting needles. They are from Coal Township, PA and can be emailed at laundunn@yahoo.com if you "have to have" the needles or the yarn! Another interesting service that Laun provides is camelid shearing! Yes, she specializes in shearing alpacas!