Fibre East

As I'm sure all you fibre artists out there know, the main fibre sales events of the year in Britian are Woolfest in Cumbria and Wonderwool in Wales plus fibre fest in Devon.  Of course as you can imagine, these are all at least 3 hours away from where I live in Norfolk.You will therefore understand my excitement at finding a fibre event a lot nearer to me. Fibre East is held in Bedfordshire and this year was its first (but I think it is destined for greatness.)

It was held on a private farm which the owners had kindly let them use. It consisted of 2 main marquees full of stallholders and many smaller marquees holding various things like individual stallholders, cushion stuffing service and catering venues. 

The two main marquees held the main seller stalls.  The range of products being sold varied from looms, to carding equipment, felting equipment (I bought a hand felting tool) and spinning wheels and spindles.  Then there were wool products of every sort, and yarns.  There were quite a lot of blended batts, but I make those myself, so there was nothing I wanted there.  (sometimes I use a picture I like, with interesting colours and try to re-create it in a fleece batt - but I digress!)  It did have a bit of a knitting/spinning theme, but was brilliant nonetheless).

Overall I believe that it will continue to grow but next time please sort out better toilet facilities as they were a bit gross.

Meghan