Last
Saturday, my friend Merritt, Kathy (from the twisted sisters spin guild) and I
spent the day at Tollgate Gardens, a farm in Novi as part of the
entertainment for the Novi Heritage Festival.
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| we were right in front of the children's garden how cool is that? |
There was bee keepers with honey for sale, a
wood carver, some young farm animals (calf, goats, chickens), two musical groups and other stuff. And if that was not enough, there
was a popcorn popping machine, folks grilling hot dogs and hay rides. And everything was FREE. Yup, free hot dogs
free popcorn free hay rides. Oh oh
almost forgot, if I may quote Merritt, “ and
we were able to watch fleece-on-the-hoof herding demonstrations by border collies on
and off all day. Fascinating! “
And, this is most important, the
farm manager gave us a big bag of yucky dirty yucky fleece as a nice bonus. The yucky dirty fleece was carted off by the
spinners, me, not so much into having to wash, card etc., but I do understand
the need.
Merritt
and Kathy took care of demo-ing spinning, me the weaving.
Kathy
had some of the kids help drop spindling.
Merritt had example of fleece from different animals, bison, sheep, llama, alpaca, bunny, etc.
I had the kids help with weaving.
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| see, you can see the loom right there pretend you can see kids weaving....... ya, we were busy and did not get a pic of kids weaving |
Parents were concerned that OMG, be careful of
the loom, but short throwing to the ground how could one damage a loom.
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| this is only a small section of the farm it is 160 acres |
And then
after a day that flew by so fast, I came home and un-wove. Not really because
the kid weave was so so wonky which it was but really because the color
patterning looked like hell, not pleased at all.
And
that was my weekend.
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