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| Sherryl, the originator of Fiber Day |
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| Linda, Jan & Claudia |
One day a month we get together to do lunch and whatever fiber thing we want to do from 12 to 5pm. We try all sorts of things:
Sherryl: Spins, crochets, dyes fiber
Jan: Knits, crochets and is into felting purses and resizing old wool sweaters
Claudia: She's into fine needlework, cross stitch, with beads
Linda: Crochets, Knits, dabbled in weaving a bit.
I: Bring about 4 unfinished projects and switch back and forth between them
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| Linda, master christmas stocking crocheter |
A couple of years back Linda crocheted 30+ Christmas stockings to give away to some kids at a local alternative school. The loved them!
Sherryl, Jan and Claudia are all "Farm Girls". Linda was raised on a farm but seems to have transitioned to "City Girl" some years back. I, of course am a "City Girl" too. You can tell by our Fiber Day conversations. Some talk about their horses, cows, gardens and others of us talk about the most recent manicure we had!
I love being around my "Farm Girlfriends". They calm me down and I learn lots of cool things that my friends don't know like how to make syrup, soap, lotion, jelly, blueberry buckle cake, flaming Figgy Pudding...I could go on and on but cannot leave out the crocheted "G" string. Yes, they can be a little wild those farm gals.
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| Princess Coat finished! |
They all got a big laugh when I said I wanted to be a farm girl but I didn't care too much for dirt. And what's with the old saying "If you have live stock, you have dead stock", oh my. Think I'll continue living vicariously through them! I get sad enough when a plant dies!!!!:)
I worked on this Princess Coat on our last fiber day. It is finished now and I just love it, although it is way to big for my granddaughter. I used acrylic yarn because young parents don't know how to care for wool but now there is no hope of shrinking it down for her. It is so much bigger than her I may have to give it away to another young lady this year for Spring. For now it's in my gift shop at the Inn just to see if it goes!
Fiber Day is Fun. Get some friends together and try it out! That is my Free advice for the day.
Fiber Day is fun but you can see how serious I was while crocheting a shawl! We eat, we laugh, we create! I love getting together with friends to show off our creations and get ideas for others. The coat Bernadine made is so adorable "in person".
ReplyDeleteFiber Day IS fun! Thank You again!
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