Wednesday, February 13, 2008

We're SPINNING!!



Well that sounds great if you're reading this in English. If you change the spelling just lightly and pronounce it in German it might mean something a little different....

In any case, we're excited that a group is meeting on Tuesday nights at our store to practice spinning. You should see the beautiful sweater Karen knit from yarn that she spun herself.

There is something so soothing about watching the rythmic motion of a spinner and it conjures up images of straw being spun to gold.

We did a show in Burbank once and another vendor (sorry I forgot her name) insisted that Dutch had to learn to spin. She wouldn't take no for an answer and dragged him into her booth where she promptly made him sit and attempt to learn. Now this is a guy who has told me for over 18 years that it is NOT his job to learn to knit, so I'm sorry to say his spinning was very short lived.

What did happen was that I wound up with a spinning wheel (my dream) in exchange for some yarn. Unfortunaly the other part of my dream did not come true: A house on the cliffs overlooking the ocean under the tall pines at Big Sur. We all have our dreams and that is mine......