I am excited to announce that Beth Smith of The Spinning Loft has invited me to come out and host a program on Custom Spinning Wheels. It will be part of her Fifth Anniversary celebration November 18 & 19th, and she is calling it The Dream Wheel Weekend. As part of my presentation, I will be accompanied by a number of wheels by the makers featured in the Spin-Off article, including my own Watson Marie, and I'll share some of the stories from my interviews with the likes of Rick Reeves and Magnus Drudik that there just wasn't enough room for in the article's word count. If you live in the area and want to see some lovely work by contemporary wheelwrights, please come along Friday night for the slide show and talk, and Saturday when I'll probably let you spin on some of them. I am looking forward to the road trip part of it too, since I will be co-piloting with Random Kelly, and we will be trading off for passenger seat kntting time, I am sure. Cue the stockinette stitch project.
On the knitting front, I am delighted with my freshly dyed superwash yarn from Kim of Woolen Rabbit, called Frolic. I've swatched and done the math for something new. The colors are called Butterscotch and Moroccan Spice. Don't they just make your mouth water?
Yes, yes they do. I'd like to crawl right into that picture and take a little nap...
Posted by: amy | November 07, 2011 at 09:47 AM
oooh....is this for the potential pattern we chatted about at SOAR? Yum! I'm addictively knitting a Vodka Gimlet in a batch of Kim's Frolic. The yarn is beyond delicious. Looking forward to seeing what Butterscotch and Moroccan Spice become.
Posted by: Amy Norris | November 07, 2011 at 02:57 PM
I love that you'll *probably* let people spin on them! Ha ha ha... Are you going to inspect everyone's hands first to make sure they are clean? LOL.
Kim does excellent, magical work in the dyepot. I have treated myself several times to her fiber (back when she was doing bunny blends), and she has also custom-dyed some of my handspun. She is also a lovely, lovely person - and fellow wheel hoarder! :)
Posted by: June | November 07, 2011 at 04:22 PM
That sounds very cool! Good luck with your talk :)
Posted by: Crystal | November 07, 2011 at 06:49 PM
It's Friday evening and Saturday. The 18th and 19th:-)
(thanks, Beth, fixed that)
Posted by: beth | November 07, 2011 at 08:28 PM
Have fun!! I think I would enjoy your program very much. :-)
Posted by: Kim | November 07, 2011 at 11:49 PM
Yes, they do!
Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport | November 09, 2011 at 10:24 AM