I never finished telling about our trip to the Taos Wool Festival, so back we go, in spirit, to Taos. My button class was on Thursday. We had a great, great time, but it was so exhausting that I didn’t have the energy to pack up afterwards. Thank goodness I was in the same room the next day. We were so busy that I didn’t take any pictures, but here are the buttons I made as examples in the class. By the way, students will make a button like this in my “Wooly Buttons” class at the DFW Fiber Fest.
Friday was Color Composure, and I had another great group of people in the class. The approach of the class is to start simple, with one color and various shades of that color, then to add another color and then another, until there are lots of colors. This sample, by Emilie, was the class favorite. Emilie had muted pastel colors to start. She was not convinced that the new colors she added would look good. “Keep going,” I always say, “because the new color will lose its relative importance as you add more rows.” The class cheered her on.
Then we did collages with torn-out magazine pages. The idea is to collect pages with your assigned color, then see how they fall into color families. We ran out of time before we could knit samples based on the collages. Too bad. The assigned colors for these collages were turquoise and green.
Saturday was the first day of the actual Wool Festival. After a rainy start, the day turned gorgeous. I didn’t get to shop, though, because I was busy judging the Garment and Home Accessories Contest. Next time, more about judging and about the yarn I bought on rainy, muddy, squishy, sloshy Sunday at the Wool Festival.