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This Website is dedicated to the Fiber Arts.
Spinning, Weaving, Dyeing, Crocheting, Knitting, Felting, and other arts are discussed and exhibited here. Welcome to all who are interested in learning or pursuing these crafts and arts.
Florida Tropical Weavers in 2013
The weekend in Florida with the great people of the FTWG was wonderful. We had great weather, and my students were absolutely good fun. The days were filled with spinning and plying and shopping and eating and visiting.
I would love to go back next year as a student! Rumors are that Geri Forkner is teaching, and I would love to be in her class. Let's see how it pans out.
Georgia National Fair 2013
Wow, Spring is here, and I haven't gotten much to enter into the fair this year. I will have to get to work and maybe get some fabulous yarn spun, or a few small projects worked on. Where has my time gone? Oh, yeah...... teaching and travelling and having a wonderful time.
Kristina and I are heading for the UK and for Paris!
April 25th, Kristina and I will be flying out of Atlanta for a month in the UK. Mostly we will be in York, Bath and London, but we are meeting up with friends in Paris for four days! They speak the language and will give us a grand tour of the city. During the month in England, we will be visiting textile-ly sights and tourist-y sights and generally taking in the atmosphere.
There will be days that we just sit in a park and watch the world go by, visit the museums, and meet up with some spinning folks. We'll see what our schedule allows us to fit in. Exciting!
Summer Camp at the Carlos Museum
Summer camp again at the Carlos Museum on the Emory University Campus. I love that place. I will teach two weeks of an exciting program we call "Weaving the Sun". One week with younger children and then repeated with an older group, we spin, dye, weave and embroider using techniques, motifs and inspirations from the ancient peoples of South America.
The children also get to visit the galleries to see some of the artifacts from the cultures, and pieces are brought into the classroom for a closer look.
This year has been exciting because I have been expanding the programs I can offer at the museum, and I am working with their education department to produce some dyeing workshops --I taught an indigo program connected to some African fabrics installed in the museum - and am working on a week-long summer camp, to be called "Summertime Blues".