Saturday past was the annual trip to HH for a day of spinning with our sister guild in HH, B.C. It was a great day as we visited Frankie's home and had a look at her new lambs and got to walk in the nearby woods to check out the wild flowers growing at this time of year before settling down to an afternoon of eating (what we do best) and spinning, and showing off what we have accomplished over the last few weeks. I wish I had thought to take pictures but as usual I think about the camera after everyone has left and gone home! Rene g. had some awesome scarves woven and some tea towels that she was taking to her sisters as gifts. I unfortunately cannot figure out why anyone would want to waste all that time on weaving tea towels when you can buy them for a buck at the dollar store and I wouldn't want to use towels that someone spent hours weaving to wipe my dirty pots and pans. But everyone else swears that once you use a hand woven tea towel you will never go back...... I have yet to use one! The scarves on the other hand were awesome. One scarf was woven in a multi-coloured tencel warp with an undulating twill as the pattern and she used a chenille..... I think cotton..... which was gorgeous. The other scarf was knitted in a variegated bamboo (I think) and was also lovely.
Marion brought along beautiful woven baby blankets in huck lace with soft pastel blues, greens, yellows, and pinks..... very pretty. I did a demonstration on how to spin on a Navajo spindle and then demonstrated how to Navajo ply. then I gave a short demonstration on how to spin cotton on my charkha.
We also had a chance to look at some fleeces one in particular that I had just bought from a friend who is a shepherd. the fleece was lovely and unique in that it came from a Shetland cross ewe that had a fading gene. The fleece was white but it hadn't always been that way. I haven't spun any of it yet but I am hopeful to try it very soon.
we will be getting together again next month at Mary T.'s cabin on Ch Lk. i look forward to that and seeing what everyone is working on and hopefully I will be able to show and tell a little something myself.
