Fiber, Friends, Food, and Fun

This group started out three years ago as a small gathering of people with an interest in fiber crafts particularly spinning. The first gathering was on a third Sunday at Allen and Joyce’s. As Joyce, Sherri, Wendy, and Karen gathered in Joyce’s studio for a session of spinning, hand sewing, and getting to know you conversation while Steve and Allen began a getting to know you conversation downstairs. We concluded that day with tour of the sheep pasture and potluck dinner. That has become our pattern. We shoot for every Third Sunday. We refer to ourselves as The Sunday Spinners. Others sometimes join us but we six seem to comprise the core of the group. It always involves conversation and a community dinner. Spinning or knitting is usually a part of it. Fiber arts and other handcrafts are important to all of us. We tend now to all hang together whether in a studio or living room or outdoor deck. The friendships are strong. The conversation engaging. The mutual support is wonderful. Today we gathered in the living room. There was knitting, spinning, and chair caning going on as we talked and commiserated and supported one another. The dinner was delicious and was wonderfully capped by homemade pie from homegrown pumpkins topped with just-whipped cream and lots of laughter as we answered our own burning questions with the help of a set of Sock Monkey tarot cards!