Last week I was down in Seabeck, WA at a retreat organized by my local spinning guild.
It was a lot of fun- and not as long a trip as I expected. Maybe it helped that the journey was broken up by a ferry ride (Edmonds to Kingston). Oh- and we also stopped on the way down at the Artful Ewe in Port Gamble. That’s always a treat!
The conference center was really cute and homey. I thought I’d taken a picture of my room in the Inn Annex, but can’t find it, so here is one ganked from their website. Mine didn’t have a desk, so there was a little more floorspace.
And here are a few pictures I took of the property- the inn from the front
The meeting house where we spun and hung out
view from the meeting house-
Cute little building along the pathway to the meeting house
I brought Moto the e-spinner, and gave him and his battery pack a pretty good workout over the course of three days, spinning a variety of things, but mostly Daphne fleece that I had carded up into rolags.
I didn’t do any plying while there, but since I’ve been back, I’ve gotten caught up and mostly cleared my bobbins!
Little bit of everything going on in that pile! Daphne, Dottie, Esther, romeldale from last year’s Wonderful woolies sale, Spincycle superwash merino-
Everyone except Fiona- but I am excited that this year her fleece seems to have turned a corner. Less scritch, and more crimp. I just made a bit of a start with shearing this morning, and it looks really promising.
She’s still got her long outercoat, but even that seems a bit finer and softer than previous years.
While I was at it I cleaned up a bit around Daphne’s neck and chest, too. Her fleece is really interesting, and very atypical for an Icelandic sheep, I think. Tight curls over most of her body. A bit looser and fluffier around the neck.
That’s what’s going on in my little world.
Hopefully by this time next week we’ll have germination on tomato and pepper sprouts.
How fun!
it was 🙂