I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts

Not true, of course: I came away from The Loopy Ewe’s Spring Fling with a bunch of surprise goodies. But when I won a “Monkey Farts”-scented lotion bar as a door prize…

just what do they smell like?

…a group of Flingers decided I needed a T-shirt that read “I went to Spring Fling and all I got were Monkey Farts.” I figured a blog entry with that title would be close enough.

Actually, the door prize was a pair of lotion bars.

take your pick

The Cranberry lotion has a lovely fruity/floral scent with a touch of vanilla. (Or maybe the vanilla is just my imagination, since I love the smell of vanilla.) The scent lingers on my hands for hours.

And the Monkey Farts lotion? No-one that’s sniffed it has been able to figure out what it smells like. Not bananas. Not anything identifiable. Who knows? Maybe it really does smell of monkey farts.

But that’s not all. Everyone that attended Spring Fling received a goodie bag containing Loopy Ewe swag.

too cute!

Even DH thinks Loopy is pretty darn cute. Myself, I’m particularly smitten by the book of sticky notes.

big stickies, medium stickies, and bright page-marker stickies

Is it wrong to get excited over a book of sticky notes? To look forward to marking the patterns in a stitch dictionary with color-coded stickies? I sure hope not.

And—drum roll, please—everyone snagged a skein of Wollmeisse.

purple Wollmeise!

Different people got different colors. We were encouraged to trade, but my skein was purple. Who trades away purple? Nobody, I bet. Now I’m just waiting for the skein to tell me what it wants to become.

Of course, the biggest goodie of them all was attending the Spring Fling itself. Sheri, let me say again that you and your elves put on an awesome event. And the Flingers! I don’t think I’ve ever met a bunch of knitters so happy to learn a few cast-on tricks and to knit silly little entrelac samples. I’d come back and teach for y’all again anytime.

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