Fiber Works Guild Meeting

This Saturday we had the last guild meeting of the year (there is a holiday dinner, and the Fiber fest coming up and some other events) but this was the last official meeting.

The group:

I'm on the top right there, next to my friend Alyssa (who's 13 and spent the weekend with us, she already knits, so what else was I to do, I had to teach her to spin too!)

I took some photos of the Fiber Works Studio, which opened in May in Durango. It really is a cool place, in fact I signed up to take a class this coming Saturday...


Some of the fiber availible. All the fiber is local; one on the main purposes of the studio is to give local people a place to sell fiber and encourage people to raise animals for not only food, but fiber too. I'd say 50% of this is Churro, in about 6 colors, and I saw Icelandic, Rambouillet, Columbia, Llama, angora, alpaca, some nice batts of angora-alpaca blend, and my temptation, a 75% Churro 25% llama blend roving....I really want to try some of this.


A corner with looms, and weaving supplies.


More fiber and fiber prep stuff.


Some of the woven and felted pieces for sale by the artists; they also sell yarn....handspun and millspun from local animals.


And I couldn't resist. A sleeping cat trifecta. Tele on top, Clyde in the middle, Dory on the bottom. I love that my pets all get along.