A Spinning Weekend
Monday, July 16, 2012 at 3:20PM Last week, Morgan attended the Beaver Meadow Audubon Center's day camp and loved every minute of it! Beaver Meadow is a mere 15 minutes from us, but because it's in a direction I don't normally drive, I had never been there before. What a shame! It's a beautiful nature center with hiking trails that feature education at every turn.
When dropping her off the first day, I saw that there were signs for the annual Homestead Festival. It advertised iron workers, storytelling and hearth cooking. But not spinning! So, of course I asked if they needed a spinner, and a few minutes later, I'm an official volunteer with the Buffalo Audobon Society and have a tent space reserved for me!
I got to talk, talk, talk wool processing and spinning all day long! What a great day. Morgan was my assistant, but went AWOL for most of the day playing games, testing food and having a great time.
Because I needed to show my wheel in action so often (wink!), I got a LOT of spinning accomplished.
5 oz. of "Rocky Road" from The Critter Ranch. It's quite wonderful to spin, and I'm planning a sweater with it. Hopefully, I'll have enough finished to start knitting this weekend when Mike and I drive to the Syracuse Nationals (a super-wonderful car show). And we're leaving the kids at home! Woo hoo!