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• November 8, 2012

  A Snowy SOAR in Lake Tahoe.

  One of my favourite things about traveling is revisiting places made familiar years earlier. I just returned from SOAR (Spin-Off Autumn Retreat) 2012, held at the Granlibakken Resort at Lake Tahoe, California. SOAR changes location each year and was last held at the Granlibakken in 2006, when I attended as a scholarship recipient. SOAR is…

• November 4, 2012

  Rebuilding Judith’s Studio

  The effort to help Judith MacKenzie rebuild her studio following the fire in Forks, WA, is well underway. I delayed posting this until I had plenty of info. I have met two of the three wonderful people who have created this website and they (all three) are an important part of Judith’s network in the…

• September 25, 2012

  November Workshops

  The Fort Wayne Flax and Fleecers Spinning Guild has invited me to teach two spinning workshops in Fort Wayne, IN, this November: Sweet Feet: Spinning for Socks Nov 16th 9am-4pm Spinning Woolen or Worsted? Nov 17th 9am-4pm The workshops will be held at the Swinney Homestead in Fort Wayne. Details Here.

• September 20, 2012

  Naked sheep.

  Shearing day. The flock started this week as fluffy, wool-laden beasts and are now sleek, shockingly white, and shiny. The sheep actually quite like shearing day. Our wonderful shearer, Matt Kennedy, sits them on their rumps and quickly shears them. Matt then lets them roll off the shearing mat, leaving a huge pile of wool behind. My sheep usually walk themselves back to…