EKjourney Backup

Oh my goodness, 3 days jammed packed with fun classes, shopping, and delightful colors and texture.  It was a fiber loving paradise!   Last year, I discovered that there were classes offered in addition to hundreds of vendors but I was too late to sign up for some of them.  This year, I was ready, and signed up early to ensure that I got to take the classes that I wanted.  It was hard to decide but in the end, I went with two felting classes so I could learn technique and basic felting skills.  All the felting that I have done has been self taught.  The classes were very valuable and I can't wait to experiment more at home. Class number 1 :  Making a felted shawl using resists for texture. Merino wool Silk scraps An example of texture.  We chose our colors - 2 colors of merino wool (an arm length amount of each color), two silk squares, and embellishment colors. Step one:  Shingle (lay out in one direction) very thin pieces of roving on a rol...

This blog post is all about being in the right place at the right time!  Ordinarily, I am drawn most to landscape and other nature scenes but the weathered colors and the lines on these tractors caught my eye!  I also am a photographer by opportunity.  Rarely do I set up a tripod and experiment with the options on the camera, rather I take my camera most every where I go and "point and shoot" in the moment.  I took quite a few photographs while the children played and climbed and then we explored the other parts of the museum grounds.  During that time, we had a brief rainstorm followed by a clearing and I just knew that the same photographs would be magnified with color and light and shadow as brought on by the rain.  Phil and the children went to the car and I took about 30 minutes and went back through the antique tractor line and redid the photo session.  Of the following photographs, not one pictures was chosen from the original batch, true to for...