Summer delights abound at the Working Hands Fibre Arts Studio! Some predictable and some not so much. . . Students are participating in classes each week day. We are celebrating many firsts.
Beginner knitting students complete their first projects on Tuesdays and Thursdays. . . . .
and begin their first circular experience. . .
New spinners ‘whiz and whorl’, spinning woollen yarns on the first Wednesday; worsted, and plied yarns in the second week.
Scented blossoms inspire and sooth us in our outside classroom.
Some hands are working charted designs
and some hands are at rest; taking a break for a healthy snack. .
Monday night students are building two socks from the toe up, on one long circular needle, using the magic loop method. . .
Friday night students nestle into comfy chairs, inside and outside, to work on projects that are giving them a challenge. . .
There have been three adoptions at the studio. A beautiful in progress needlework project was donated to the studio by a complete stranger, and Craigslist helped me to find the frame to set it up. You are very kind, and a beautiful needlework artist, Christine! Thank you so much!
A twelve string guitar has come along, fulfilling a longtime dream. . .and that makes three stringed things . . . . . my working hands are on a schedule.
This is Cardigan, a Border Collie/Bernese Mountain Dog cross, adopted from the Salmon Arm SPCA. He inspires our colour choices and carries our shoes out into the backyard to arrange them into beautiful patterns. Cardigan has come to live with me after being found fending for himself in the fields around Salmon Arm, with a puppy that looked just like him. He had never lived in a house, and did not know what toys were! Thanks to spending two weeks with the loving staff at the Salmon Arm SPCA, he has found his soft heart, along with Lila’s legacy of a gazillion stuffies! Sadness has been mixed in with the delights recently, and in April I said goodbye to Lila who had lived 19 wonderful years. She got busy organizing the universe, and now Cardigan is here carrying on really competently in her enormous footsteps. ‘notice any similarities?
Another collection of seashore inspired bags will be making its way to the Circle Craft shop on Granville Island next month and I am preparing for a local Christmas show. . .
We are swatching for our fall project, a steeked cardigan. . .
and learning something new each day! Our working hands bring joy. Thank you for choosing my studio. . .
ahhhh. . . ’tis bliss!