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NOOOOO! You guys, I am SO SAD TODAY. My backyard fiber festival is doing its last one after 20 years. This amazing festival that I look forward to for AN ENTIRE YEAR is going away, and I want to cry. madronafiberarts.com
I mean, I get it. They're retiring. I know it's their festival. But I LOVE Madrona. I only discovered it a few years ago and kicked myself for not discovering it sooner. It's big, yet intimate. Wonderful classes where you feel you get you to know your teacher.
And the vendor/social space! It's the ONLY TIME, y'all, when this socially awkward introvert actually LOOKS FORWARD to going into the room with all the big tables and the coffee and just sitting down, pulling out my spinning or knitting, and chatting with strangers.
I guess I'll have to find a new festival to look forward to attending. Oregon Flock and Fiber, I guess? I think that's the next most-local one for me, which...isn't very local. :(
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phys.org/news/2018-08-i… <-- fascinating article on the discovery that the Inuit were spinning yarn about 1000 years before Viking contact, up-ending the current idea that the Vikings introduced spinning to the Inuit. Two favorite things from this article:
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So this is the Merino fleece I've been working on, from a sheep named Thor (sadly, I don't have a pic of Thor, even though I met him). Last night I decided to try a new (to me) method of washing Merino fleece -- Margaret Stove's method. I learned about it recently.
Now, check this method out: you pull out individual locks from the fleece. You dip the lock into very, very hot water. You rub it on a bar of soap. You dip it again until the water runs clean, and you press the water out and lay it on a towel to dry.
Even to other handspinners -- who, by nature, do time-intensive things -- this method sounds insane when I describe what I'm doing. "That has to take FOREVER!" They cry. But I tried it last night, and now I will NEVER WASH MERINO ANOTHER WAY AGAIN. This is GLORIOUS.
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