Fiber Daze

If IfIyou know me personally or read this blog for any length of time, you know I’m crazy about yarn.  I credit knitting with saving my sanity through a few back-to-back years of bad ice storms and blizzards. 

It was a little embarrassing a couple of weeks ago when Mary Horine sent me the Link to Fiber Daze, planned for this fall at Crowder, and I turned into something closely resembling a kid two days before Christmas.  I could not stop talking about it.  I drove Big Al nuts.  I studied that class schedule like a pirate reading a treasure map.

The inaugural Fiber Daze is scheduled for Friday-Saturday, September 23-24, on the Crowder College campus.  Teachers from every area of the fiber arts are scheduled throughout both days for small-group classes.  If you’re like me and never learned to knit or crochet as a child, come to Fiber Daze for one of the beginner classes.  Always wanted to learn to spin your own yarn – there’s a class for that.  How about weaving?  Do you love hand-woven wraps and home décor.  Register and learn how to weave your own.

Socks are one of my downfalls.  I thought they would be a cool little project to tuck in my bag (read as overly large purse) and carry around with me while operating the last year of the mom taxi service.  I’m having difficulty though with the double-pointed needles.  If you haven’t knitted with them, you basically set up your yarn loops on three needles, forming a triangle outline, then knit the loops off each side with a fourth double-pointed needles. 

There is hope for me yet.  One of the classes I’ve listed to take is for the “magic loop” method of sock knitting.  I may have found my sock solution.

All this fiber-goodness is made possible through and organized by the Fiber Folks of Southwest Missouri. Fiber Folks is for everyone interested in any aspects of the fiber arts. Knitters, spinners, weavers, dyers, or those raising fiber animals, and living in southwest Missouri are part of this group. Fiber Folks meets the third Sunday of the month at various locations.

To see a complete Fiber Daze class schedule and to register to attend visit www.fiberfolks.wordpress.com .  I’ll see you there.