Historic Huguenot Street Photoessay

The Monday after Rhinebeck we visited Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York. It was about 30 minutes north of Fishkill where we stayed.


Many of the original stone houses still remain from the 1700s. I love this house - it actually looks like a face to me. do you see how the chimney is the nose...



Jolene enjoyed peeping in all the windows:





There was this crazy contraption attached to a well... I wonder how it works:





I think the flowers were a bit confused!



Loved this fire hydrant...



Huguenot street was right on the Wallkill River:






I loved the old cemetary:






There were very old tombstones dating back to the 1700s






The leaves were amazing and we took full advantage of them for our pics :)





Here we are being silly...







After walking around the historical sections of New Paltz, we walked around the cute main street in town:

Rhinebeck Rocked!

Even though I'm not home yet - I had to post pics from Rhinebeck!

I saw lots of friends, bought some cool stuff and had a grand time! Jolene and I flew up to RI to drive to Rhinebeck from Sarah's house. We had tons 'o knitting time in the car and I manged to knit half a sweater and finish clue 3 of the mystery socks! Pics of these items coming soon.

We stayed in Fishkill NY about 45 minutes south of Rhinebeck but it worked out perfectly. We went both saturday and sunday. Saturday was BEAUTIFUL!! I was so worried it was going to rain and or snow but it didnt. Here are some pics of the friends we saw....



They had these cool pumpkin carvings on display there...



And Jolene fell in love with these spinning wheels - especially the yellow one...



Sunday was much less crowded and a but rainy but we had a great time anyway because we got to see the things we missed on Saturday! And we watched the end of the sheep to shawl competition. Here's the winning team (at least they finished first). I loved their rainbow warp!






We also were somewhat restrained in buying... I only got three skeins of yarn - 2 socks that rock mill ends, a skein of angora sock yarn and a bag of merino roving.

Here's all three of our loot combined...



And best of all - I ran into a gal in the artichoke line wearing my Merletto mitts!! I had to take a pic!



After Rhinebeck we went to New Paltz NY to historic Huguenot Street. Pics of that soon!

Mystery Sock clue #2

I finished the second clue in in the Through the Loop's Socktoberfest Mystery Sock '09.




I only did 4 repeats of the lace pattern instead of 5 since I'm a bit concerned that I will run out of yarn! The pattern calls for 400 yards and Socks that Rock typically have about 360 in their lightweight. So I'm trying to be frugal while I can :)

Guess where I am today! I'm at Sarah's house! We are road tripping to Rhinebeck later in the week. I'm so excited!!

Are you going? Let me know!!

Rhinebeck Loot

At long last I am finally ready to show you what I got at Rhinebeck!

Here's the loot!



Rovings:
1. 2 braids (one merino silk and one corriedale)from the Sheep Shack at Mountain View Farms (no website that I could find)

2. Corriedale roving from Grafton Fibers

3. Alpaca mittens (These were my first purcahse as soon as I walked in the first barn - it was cold!)

4. Merino Silk lace weight from A Touch of Twist

5. Majacraft bobbins and 2 cones of cotton thread. This was my deal of the day! I was so excited to find two bobbins for a STEAL! They still have yarn on them too - hehe. The lady selling these was trying to clean out her supply of random things and I saw an amazing deal on a Lendrum speedy flier. Larissa ended up getting it for her new wheel for over half off retail price! I was just happy to find bobbins for half price and she threw in the cotton yarn for free!

6. A Rhinebeck long sleeve t-shirt

7. A Silk scarf

8. 1 skein of green merino yarn - from Shepherds Mill Farm - maybe for a Koolhaas hat?

9. A Silk cap - I have never tried spinning from a silk hanky or silk cap. I got this to try out the technique.

10. 5 different colors of fingering weight yarn from Shelridge Farms - for Fiddlehead mittens

11. 8 skeins of oatmeal merino yarn from Shepherds Mill Farm - for a sweater to be determined.

12. This gorgeous hand sewn Needle case!



It holds both circular and DPNs - wow!



13. I also was lucky enough to get the signature of Ann and Kay of Mason Dixon fame.


They have the coolest stamps of their pictures too!



14. I also got 2 signed copies of

Steaphanie Pearl McPhee's latest NY Times Best Seller! (one for me and one for Sarah)




And finally the most important thing we did at Rhinebeck was handout these buttons...



Jolene's yarn shop - Cloverhill - is going online!! Now all of you that don't live in Maryland can get the same awesome yarn that I can. Her shop will be open for business starting in November, but you can sign up to receive news and information now!

Vanderbilt built a mansion

When you make the turn into the driveway towards Vanderbilt mansion - this is the view you are greeted with. It's like you are entering heaven!



The leaves were just glowing with golden and orange light.







The backyard had these amazing views of the Hudson River. Across the way was an equally gorgeous mansion. Anyone know what this one is?



I wouldn't mind having a backyard like this!






The house itself was massive! I love the collumns and wrought iron details.


The details aren't appreciated until you get up close and personal...




It was such a gorgeous day - we layed in the grass in the front yard for a while just soaking in the sunshine.














When we headed to the parking lot to leave - one more shiny object caught my eye - a vintage jaguar. I just love how the leaves reflected in the glossy black paint.


If you ever have a chance to visit this place I highly recommend it!