November 2008 - brrrrr!

The weather was a bit nasty, but we had a great turn-out. Again, it was good to see everyone. Since part of us did the flowers, we were divided and didn't get to visit as much as usual.

The living room was filled with spinners and knitters.

The dining room held the class, taught by Melinda. What a blast! Melinda was the best teacher ever and I think we all really learned a lot. It was a lot harder than it looked to come up with decent looking flowers. Coby and Chris were the star pupils, followed closely by newbee Sharon. Steve, Dan D. and I participated. I would have done better, but Steve kept making me screw up so that we were getting in trouble with the teacher. We really lived up to the "back row" tenets.

As you can see, our teacher Melinda never looked at the camera, so all I have is the back of her head...

Back in the living room, Ellen is knitting and Troy is relaxing.

Dan thought something was pretty funny...

Elizabeth, Pat and Lori were spinning up a storm.

And Jamie always has a smile on his face. He and his daughter made the trip up from Indiana despite the weather. It is always fun to see them.

And here are Steve's masterpieces!

And here are Betty's masterpieces!

Back in the living room, Troy, Deb and Ellen's husband (sorry I didn't get his name - I told you, we were very occupied with the flower session).

And at the end of the day, Char attacked her knitting project for her class - socks! She, Sharon and Steve are taking a sock class in Lansing and hopefully we will have photos of their finished socks by January. Yes, Steve, we are expecting two finished socks by January!

As I stated earlier, we had a great turnout - I think we counted 24 all together. I almost made Dan barf when I gave him a bit of lamb stew to eat. Fortunately his response was not the general concensus and most of the lamb stew was eaten. We had a wonderful variety of crockpots full of food. Also we want newbee Sharon ( Sharon, you are only a newbee this time) to come more often and bring more sugared pecans - we were fighting for the last few left.

The class wants to say a BIG THANK YOU to Melinda for taking the time to put on the workshop and share all her expertise with us. I am sorry that I didn't get photos of everyone's flowers to put on the blog - I was too busy trying to make mine turn out.

We have updated the spin dates (see the top of the blog). And we have two shearing dates set. In February, our regular monthly spin will be in conjunction with Char's shearing and held at Char's house on Sunday, February 15. More details will be available as the time gets closer.

Steve's shearing date is set for Sunday, March 1. That will not be the monthly spin, but anyone who wants to spin will be able to.

Have a happy Thanksgiving and see you in December!