Whew Summer Is Over

Well that was a busy summer. I got to spend a week in Vermont and a one night stay on either side of that in Montreal. It was certainly nice to go back to Montreal and have time to spend enjoying the great food. There was a yarn store I was anxious to see but we forgot our travel day back was St. Jean Baptiste day and so of course everything was closed

Two days after returning we headed to Olds for Fibre Week. It is always such a great experience - so laid back and full of fibre enthusiats. This was the first time they offered a beginner weaving class since the 80's and they ended up with 2 classes. Tuesday night we closed down our booth, headed home and it was back to work Wednesday morning for me.

The summer disappeared teaching classes and developing curriculum for a revised course in one of our programs. The good news is that I will have vacation time after the Christmas break - I have done most of my teaching hours for this year. We are taking a cruise to South America and I hear Buenos Aires has some great yarn shops!

My beginner weaving class is full and many of the students have looms already. This seems to be common in the past few years. Before students would come and take the lessons but not have a loom at home. The nice point is that they usually have some idea of where they would like the classes to go for them - although some do end up seeing that there is even more than they were aware of. I give the students an outline showing what we hope to do in each sesssion and most of them are on session 2 - off to a good start.

My new AVL is warped with tea towels for the local sale in November. I have to do a sample for my complex weaver's group (deadline is October 1st) - the warp is made and I need to get that on today and woven. I have a stash of unfinished articles. Alas my other 2 looms are empty but hopefully I can get around to them over the next few weekends. Of course my 4 day weekend is after our sale.