Hearth & Home III Wk 6

Spinning Night! Although we missed Linda, we enjoyed listening to our guest speaker, Lizette Hopkins. She gave us a lot of good information and kept us laughing while teaching us how to spin. Besides spinning, her real profession (until recently) is professor of ballroom dancing at Folsom Lake College. She also sings, was anchorwoman on Channel 40 some years ago, and belongs to 7 spinning guilds.
　

Louise got our attention with a question that none of us got right. How did the knitter knit a suit of armor? The answers the class came up with were pretty good, but the answer is with steel wool.

Claudia brought roving for the class. Lizette said it was a good deal and really nice wool. Did you know that alpaca yarn is called the poor woman's cashmere? 

Lizette demonstrated how to card,

how to use this other carding machine,

how to attenuate and wrap the fiber around the arm,

how to use the spindle,

and how to use a spinning wheel. She owns 20 spinning wheels.

 Here are our attempts at using a spindle that Lizette's husband made for us the night before. We were able to purchase it for $4 each.

Claudia tries using a spinning wheel for the first time. She's a natural.

Twelve ladies had a nice dinner at Max's with Lizette.

Fingerpuppets
Diane took some of the fingerpuppets to the Loomis library. They are displayed in the very back of the library. If you do not see your fingerpuppets, Linda has them.

Presidents
Rosemary noticed that some of the presidents are not fastened to their stands and can easily come off when packing. So, she asked us if she could whip stitch the presidents on to the stands. 

Show 'n Tell

Judith's gorgeous neck warmer

Cynthia's beautiful shawl that she shared with us last week.

Irene's ATC (Art Trading Card). In class, she said it was called "After the Presidents" (hee, hee), but it is really titled "Relaxing in the Sun."

Knit and enjoy!