In addition to the Methow Valley Spinners & Weavers Guild, I am also a member of a fiber-arts guild over in the Okanogan Valley (Omak – Okanogan, about a 45 minute drive over a low mountain range, the next river valley to the east of the Methow Valley). They meet every 2 weeks in each others’ homes, and a potluck lunch figures largely in the proceedings. My friend Diana is also a member, as is a woman named Teresa who moved to Twisp from Tonasket last year. So last Saturday the three of us made the journey over Loup Loup pass to a guild meeting in Conconully, which is a good half hour northeast of Omak; Conconully is a little frontier town on a lake. Pronounced: Con-co-NULL- ly. Our hostess, Eve, lives in the woods several miles outside of Conconully, and this was the first time we had been to her home.
Guild meeting at Eve's
Yes, that is a very large stuffed elk head in the background. There was also a cougar waiting to pounce up on the stairway landing.
There was a lot of show-and-tell, including Sandra’s poncho that she had woven in a shadow-weave pattern with her handspun yarn:
and Ingrid’s beautiful rep weave table runner and placemats that she just finished as part of a “color challenge” project the guild took on last year:
Ingrid is a very interesting woman. She is Swedish, and when she was younger she lived in Hawaii and was a marine mammal trainer. They moved to Omak from Anacortes several years ago, and now live out on the Colville Indian Reservation in a little valley east of Omak, where she raises cashmere goats, Norwegian Fjord horses, and also has an aviary which I have not yet seen. We have been to several guild meetings at her home, and she is a beautiful weaver.
Saturday night we went out to dinner at the Twisp River Pub with our neighbors up the road, then Rick and I drove up to Winthrop to see our friend Leah Larson play with Brad Pinkerton and Paul Gitchos. Leah has a beautiful singing voice (mainly bluegrass) but that evening she was just playing the fiddle with the band.
Twisp of Fate 
Such nice pictures of our trip to Eva’s home. L. Diana
Love the show and tell and I really like the shape of the poncho. Can you reveal more about the shape and how she did it?
Holly
Holly, it’s just a long rectangle. She sewed one end to the side of the other end, so it makes a point in the back. In the front, she has just gathered up a big fold and secured it with a large brooch.
I have another poncho that I got from the pinelow retreat that gave me the idea. Mine measures 24″ wide and 60″ long.
It is so nice to be able to come to this spinning group in the “methow” met-how…see you soon at Debbie’s in Omak.