Twisp of Fate

Last weekend I got a call from a young man who is a videographer for the Methow Grist, the local online magazine produced by Methownet.com, an internet service provider in Winthrop.  I have woven rugs for one of the owners there, and she suggested he come by to film me weaving in my studio.  He has been producing a series of videos he calls “Gristisodes – Slices of Methow Life”.

So I somewhat nervously agreed, and he came by Monday morning and filmed and interviewed me.  I told him about our guild, Methow Valley Spinners & Weavers, and suggested he might want to come to the weekly meeting on Thursday and see what the other weavers were up to.  So he did, and here are a few pictures from that:

We were in the middle of a demonstration of different ways to prepare fabric strips for weaving rugs, placemats, etc.

Steven filming various guild members working on their weaving projects at the guild room:

Lill working on a beautiful, vividly colored blanket

Lillie weaving silk cloth with a butterfly pattern, to be made into a jacket

Cathie weaving a red scarf

Christina working on our guild project to make 400 earring hangers for “goodie bags” at the conference in June

Susan cutting cloth strips for a rug

The Gristisode just went up this morning and also features the local roller derby team, and ping-pong down at the Carlton General Store.

Gristisode Five – weaving, roller derby and ping-pong!