Join Me!
September 12, 2020 11am - 12:15pm
Join me (virtually via Zoom and Facebook Live for now!) at the new Fibershed Learning Center at Black Mountain Ranch in Point Reyes and explore why you might consider using a local yarn for your next project.
There is something rather special about connecting with the sheep, farmers and mill owners who live in our own communities. Modern life has disconnected us from the origins of our food and clothes and we are removed from the land, animals and people who provide these basic life necessities.
We are so lucky to have the (now global) Fibershed movement working hard to reconnect these broken links. They bring health and hope back our communities and as knitters, we can actively participate in that process - by bring the ‘making’ of finished objects directly into the chain.
This is where I would like to begin … and continue in company with you. I’d like to think of this as the ‘first’ of a regular Knitting Circle at the Learning Center - where we can gather together to support and inspire each other to create beautiful projects that make our farm yarns shine!
Some of the ideas I’d like to explore on the 12th include:
• Why knitters should consider farm yarns, and in particular, yarns from their Fibershed
• How to find farm yarns
• Projects that are particularly suitable and why
• Breed specificity (including heritage breeds) and why it can matter
• Local designers and the pleasure of introducing a unique and local ‘angle’ into your craft
• The creation of a monthly knitting circle at the Fibershed Learning Center (on Zoom until safe to gather in person) offering support and community, samples of projects/kits/swatches of farm yarns and projects and eventually more organized visits with individual farms and sheep
And if that weren’t enough …. Fibershed will generously donate a portion of the proceeds of this class to Sisters United, a non-profit conceived by Candace English of The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers, dedicated to social justice issues in the Blackfeet community.
