Here are a few more things about our trip to the Taos Wool Festival.
This is the rug yarn I bought from Liesel Orend of Earth Arts. Liesel’s yarns are dyed with indigo, cedar, sage, cochenille, madder, and other natural dyestuffs.
Ellen of Ellen’s Wooly Wonders continues to produce realistic and whimsical knitted designs, like this basket of knitted cactus with a knitted lizard. My photo doesn’t do it justice. It’s much nicer in real life. Ellen designed a knitted wall-hanging of a desert mountain, which I hope you’ll check out here (better photo of the cactus basket, too). From a distance, the wall-hanging looks like a photo.
The Yarn Shop on Bent Street is under new ownership. I went in to have a look around and to promote Crochet Bouquet. The owner, who is called Granny G, said, “As you can see, I don’t have many books in this store, because I’d rather encourage people to design their own patterns.”
Wow! I never thought I would hear a yarn shop owner say something like that! It made me very glad. I replied, “They can design their own patterns, and then decorate them with crocheted flowers from my book.” She bought two copies.
Granny G wrote and narrated a CD called 7 Lazy Steps: Using Chakric Energy for Self-Healing. We listened to it on the way home. Granny G describes the chakras and their attributes, then leads the listener in prayers that ask for release from habits and thoughts that keep us from enlightenment. The sound of bells separate each step. I could feel them resonating in my bones.
Granny G’s voice is joyful and full of good humor. Listening to 7 Lazy Steps is uplifting.
You can buy a copy of 7 Lazy Steps at
The Yarn Shop
120B Bent Street
Taos, New Mexico
(575) 758-9341, (877) 213-7732
Or you can order from FarOutThings.com.
The day we got home, the skies were dramatic and stormy. We missed all the rain, but saw all the glory.
