It’s official, spring has sprung!  The prairie hills are full of crocus blossoms this year!  What a welcome site!

The Girl Scouts did make it to the studio for a fiber-fun day!  After an introduction to some of the many fiber-bearing animals which included many soft and wonderful samples; we spun up some fiber !

Everyone tried their hand with a potatoe spindle and  plied their spun fiber into a mini-skein to take home with them.  Next, we got our weavettes out and did a little weaving.  It was a busy couple of hours of great fun!

I’ve been working on sampling some bamboo lately!  It’s silky soft and comes in lotza cool colors.  Right now I am working with several different threadings from Marguerite Davison’s pattern book.  So far, the undulating twill (still on the loom) has my vote!  Now on to wet finishing!

The Girl Scouts are on their way!  We have a mini-workshop scheduled in the studio for the local girl scout troup.  We’re starting off the day with an over view of those wonderful fuzzy fiber-bearing animals.  Piles of samples for everybody to touch-feel are all spread out.  The Schacht spinning wheel is ready for a little demo as are the spindles for each little pair of hands to give it a “whorl”.  The Kool-Aid dye pot will be on the stove for a non-toxic dye bath (for the fiber, not the girls) and then on to the weaving!  Demos on the AVL’s will take place and finally each participant will get to weave a small sample on their little loom.  Pictures coming soon!

Fiber has been flying in the studio; we’re trying to finish up yardage by the 15th of November.  We are leaving on November 17th for a mega cross country drive that will eventually get us to Canyon Country, CA.  There we will visit with our daughter and son-in-law and enjoy Thanksgiving together. Then we are venturing over to Daejeon, Korea for a visit with our son and his family.  I can hardly wait to get there; in addition to seeing our kids we will get to spend time with our two grandchildren!  The handwoven baby gifts are already packed!