My Favorite Season

It’s leaf-peeping season! It’s cider season! It’s apple-picking season! It’s soup season! It’s spooky season! It’s hat season! It’s scarf season! It’s sweater season (gasp!!!!)! Best of all, it’s fiber festival season! Swoon! Yeah yeah there’s fiber festivals all year round, but I’m from New York, and that means it’s Rhinebeck season! Don’t get your hopes up, yours truly isn’t setting up at The Big One, but she’ll be going with her fiber crew from Beetle and Fred in Beacon, NY in our Flax sweaters that we all made this year! Lots of new to knitting sweaters folks so we picked a simple classic. Trust me, you’ll want to see us, we’re adorable.

So if you want to see Indigo Lane Jewelry at a fiber festival, you’ll have to come to a different one! Starting this weekend—she’s returning to the Adirondack Wool & Arts in Greenwich NY at the Washington Co Fairgrounds, then trying the Vermont Sheep & Wool for the first time October 5-6, and appearing again at the Fiber Festival of New England November 2-3 in W. Springfield MA. Have you heard of the new festival the Friday before Rhinebeck, Farm to Yarn? It’s not a Wool & Folk rebrand(may it live on in infamy as the worst fiber festival that ever was and shall be)—it’s at Hutton Brickyards in Kingston, NY and will be more not yarn than yarn. Which should be awesome! Come check it out!

If you’re not a fiber fanatic (never to late to start), find ILJ at Catstravaganza in Boston, MA October 12-13 to see a cat show (yeah, they have them for cats) and get cool feline-themed merch and pet products, including Indigo Lane’s cat head rings, studs, charms, and other cat jewelry. Check the events page for more details and holiday shows!

We’ve made progress on the Using Up Stones front these last few months—a whole bunch of hematites got set, along with some large azurite/malachite stones, and some onyx I’ve had forever. It might be tough to keep up with the stone setting with a bunch of cat and knitting jewelry to make, but who needs sleep?