THERE ARE STILL A FEW SLOTS AVAILABLE FOR
TOMORROW’S FIBERSHED POP-UP WORKSHOP!
WHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN YOU GET A HAND DYED SILK SCARF FOR $20, with bragging rights that you made it yourself!!!
Natural dye workshop! With Jude Hsiang, Mon 8/12 4-6, this week’s special guest Star at my FiberShed pop-up. 90 minute Workshop starts 4:30. 45 Hopkins Road in Washington.
Jude Hsiang will join us for some natural dye fun. Using plant materials from her South China garden, you can tie dye a silk scarf, she will bring blanks. She will also have her naturally dyed yarns, beginner dye kits, and more available for purchase.
She says: “90 minutes is plenty for the activity. Minimum 8 people, maximum 16, $20 per person. I’ll bring everything. The color(s) depend on what I have the most of at the time. (If Carol is there, I’ll be sure to include orange!)”
We can do the same in Sept. 16 with cotton bandanas. PLEASE SHARE and message ME for sign up. PLEASE COME!
As always I will have yarn, sweaters, and some SALE blankets on hand at all pop-ups.
August 19 Heidi McCaffrey will be back with her incredible “Humane Hides,” a fun and fluffy felting technique of her long locks of wool on fiber backing to make pillows and rugs, chair covers and fabulous Boa scarves.
Aug 26 Sandy Grecenko the bunny lady will be back to do an Introductory Crochet Workshop. Learn basic stitches and ask questions. Crochet hooks provided! She will also have her beautiful bunny blends of yarn and roving, and even a bunny, maybe two, so you can learn about different breeds, see how to harvest angora humanely, and maybe snuggle a bunny.
High summer has come and gone, and the monarchs have arrived. The lakes and estuaries have been surprisingly warm for swimming and the crickets are magnificent. The bobolinks have fledged, flocks of goldfinch are feasting on thistle, the second crop of clover is blooming thick and juicy, the lambs are getting fat and ready to wean.
Nasty bull thistles and burdock that would plague the lovely wool have been dug and disposed, and soon the asters will bloom. Then it will be time to split and stack wood that is down and drying. The summer weather has been dramatic, to say the least. I’m not ready for this to end.
On an end note, as my heart is breaking, and why it has taken so long to get this newsletter out… This week I walked sweet Leelu over the rainbow bridge, under the new moon, singing kisses into her ear, wrapped in the crook of my belly, exactly as she had come into this world 15 1/2 years ago. I am SO happy for many of you who got to know her. Sweetest most loving sheepdog on the planet, working gently and efficiently, never fussing lambs or upsetting their mothers, easily navigating large rams to wherever I needed them to go. A miracle of a dog, and still the alpha, even after three strokes in two years, insisting she was going to stay by my side, or always waiting patiently at the gate for my return.
Dear friend Jordan said it best:
How sad, I will miss that sweet girl. You gave her, and she lived, an incredible life filled with children, farmers markets, shows, car rides, crowds of adoring fans that were taken in by her sweet and zany spirit.
A life that she lived to her fullest. I will never forget working the farm with her, how easy she was to work with, and how eager she was to please. A sad day.
But a good day to remember all that was amazing about Leelu. She really did project to all those who knew her, The Fifth Element …. Love.
Took her for a last ride around the farm with Laurie in the buggy so she could say goodbye to all the nooks and crannies she had worked so diligently for so many years. She never lost her smile.
FLY Leelu FLY! Now she is everywhere.
Hugs from here, and Leelu… ~Nanne
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