Jillian’s Spinning: Sometimes It’s Not Spinning

My Tour de Fleece is so boring – I’m spinning samples for my retreat with Beth and Rita and for my Rhinebeck classes,fun for me and my soon-to-be-students, but not a photo opportunity.

So, I’m going to talk about not spinning.

I decided to learn a new fiber art, embroidery. I’m one of those people who never learned as a child. I had an un-crafty mother who was forced to learn all kinds of crafts from her crafty mom, so we had zero craft in our house. I didn’t even take my first knitting class until I was 26.

Instead of learning with a book all alone. I called up one of my friends, Kirsten, who wants to learn too and threw out an idea to learn together. We’re taking the embroidery sampler with Rebecca Ringquist on Creativebug.

Dropcloth Sampler

I went out and bought all of the things for embroidery – floss, a hoop, needles, and most especially the lovely sampler from Rebecca’s etsy shop. Kirsten and I are meeting weekly-ish as schedules allow. We watch one section of the class, then we stitch those stitches. Our first class was running stitches.

My running stitches

I love learning new things and there is something so relaxing about being a rank beginner, just following along, slowly.

No spinning this week, but I am thinking about spinning embroidery yarns now.