(Katie's laptop bag pre-felt. The pattern is from Interweave Knits, and this bag is made from 100% Norwegian wool from Christa's Yarn Shop in Beaches Corners.)
Katie inspired me the other day to look into classes spinning/knitting/dying. She suggested the Textile Center in the cities. They are a pretty neat resource for all things textile, but did not have exactly what I was looking for right now. You can check them out at: http://www.textilecentermn.org/.
I did do some research on other, more local resources. I need to check out the yarn shop in Decorah (http://blueheronknittery.com/). They don't have a very up-to-date website, but I am still excited to see their yarn and spinning selections. Everyone loves the co-op in Decorah, so there is no way it would be a wasted trip.
Two other websites I will add from Viroqua are Kindred Threads: http://kindredthreads.blogspot.com/ and Ewetopia fiber shop: http://ewetopiafibershop.com/. My knitting group toured Ewetopia and they have a pretty nice web page. Kindred threads has a great blog, so I actually added that as one we follow now - because there is tons of arty stuff on there. It is wonderful, so check it out.
Love,
Becky
2 comments:
I'm going to have to check out Viroqua's yarn shop after all you and Mom have to say about it. You should check out the Weaver's Guild (might be MN specific). It is housed in the textile center and I think they do the spinning classes.
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Here's the website:http://www.weaversguildmn.org/. They have a fiber shop and classes purely to try out spinning before you actually invest any money, just to make sure you like it. I signed up for their newsletter, which is kind of exciting because I think they have fiber sales, and at least one big annual event. Yeah!
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