Medieval Market

Yesterday in Tallinn, Estonia, they were celebrating summer with a small town festival like our Scandinavian Days. Their theme was Medieval times and the town square was full of people dressed in costume, music, and crafts. Sigh. The sun was out for the second time in 12 days and it was heavenly walking around under its rays looking at the cool things people had made.

There were wool felted hats of all shapes and colors.

Bolts, actual bolts!, of linen for sale. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a bolt of fabric, but no, they don’t measure in yards here. The conversion rate was about 11 Estonian Krones (abbreviated EEK, as in ahhh!) to the dollar, but I don’t know how many inches or meters you’d get for that.

I even found a stall of Log Cabin quilts. I asked if the block was a traditional pattern for this area and I got a yes, but I think it was a “I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but I think you want me to say yes” yes. :) It was really cool to see though.

However, my heart skipped a beat when I came to a stall selling raw materials. Brightly colored wool yarn and roving. Sigh. I stood for about as long as my friend in another stall trying on four different color shawls, deciding that each was her favorite. I did the same, racking my brain for anything I could make with the entire basket of colors, justifications for leaving the rest of my clothes on the ship so I could pack it all, and even fighting the fact that, although at one time I did learn, I don’t know how to knit. I succeeded in only buying two skeins of yarn and two bundles of roving. It’s just too pretty and a really good thing we’re not coming back. I also found a cute wool angle ornament that I included in the photo below.