Twisp of Fate

I’m taking off today for the spinning workshop/retreat up on Orcas Island.  I have been to this event a couple of times in years past, but skipped last year.  It is organized by two women who live on Guemes Island, just off the coast from Anacortes.  Our instructor is the wonderful Judith MacKenzie, a master spinner, dyer and weaver – she truly is a “living treasure”.  There will be some old friends from Seattle in attendance, plus other women I have met there before who are also returning, and I hope to make some new friends as well.

The theme of the workshop this year is “Ethnic Spinning and Knitting: Cowichan, Aran and Icelandic”.  I have been spinning finer and finer yarns, so should learn a lot about the fibers used in those traditions and how to spin bigger, fatter yarns that suit the different knitting styles.

I made up a new batch of shawl pins this weekend and will be taking them with me:

I will visit with mom and dad on my way up today, and also on my way back down next Saturday.  Then Rick and I are meeting in Seattle to complete the move out of our apartment there.

I’m not taking the computer so am “going dark” for about 10 days.  I’ll have lots to report when I get back!