It’s that time again. This weekend was MDSW. This year I went down on Friday afternoon, with the kids. We stayed with a family also comprised of twins and a SMC (single mother by-choice) who live in the suburbs of Baltimore. Saturday the other mom kept all the kids keeping them busy, fed and safe. This enabled me to hit the festival unencumbered. Good thing! It is becoming more and more of a zoo each year. The 88F temperatures didn’t help. This is the first year I’ve gotten a sunburn at the festival.
Did this stop the shopping? Not a chance. More on that in a bit.
Today, all six of us hit the festival for a few hours before the Phillips clan headed back north at 1pm. We had a great time. It was nice to spend the weekend them and a yearly tradition might just have been born.
Okay, so this is what my kids looked like just before I hit the Delaware Memorial Bridge on the way home.
Would you believe how much you can jam into the trunk of a Camry?
We don’t need no stinkin’ minivans to get wheels home! In that trunk are 2 bicycles that my friend’s kids outgrew and passed to my pair, the scooters we went down with and a nice wooden wheel, amongst other hand-me’s. Boots. Knee pads. Elbow pads. Fiber 
My purchases were small in number but not insignificant:
The purchases:
- 4oz Mulberry silk from Little Barn
- 4oz dyed fine wool also from Little Barn
- Alpaca fiber (about 3oz)
- 34g Bosworth Moosie (need to find the tag in the trunk to get the shaft wood but it is dark)
- Frederick Bordua marked 30″ Canadian Production Wheel from The Merlin Tree
Yes i know, this makes 4 years in a row that a wheel came home. But but but… it’s a tradition ya know!
This does mean that I do have a wheel for sale This time it is the 27″ CPW that I bought a few weeks ago. Pictures are here. Its not that there’s anything wrong with it, I just wanted a 30″. I know. Crazy.
I’m off to bond with the new kid.
Craft on!
