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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] mutual aid/ was That cruel joke called water law
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:11:03 -0400

At 10:21 PM 8/16/2008, you wrote:

Paul, Tell Barb to go for it! I regularly teach drop spindling and beginning knitting, and livestock husbandry skills as I learn them. My husband and I and encourage people to take more responsibility for their health (giving my personal radical diet changes to living foods and therapeutic grade essential oils). I teach people how to take raw fleece and wash it also (www.shepherdscross.com refers people to me or I go there to teach pre-scheduled classes - I taught drop spindling here this year also: http://www.fiberchristmas.com/) We share recipes for making things from scratch from in season produce, like my gardening friends today who grow awesome peppers and tomatoes, but didn't know how to roast the red ones to make roasted red peppers in olive oil and garlic. Sometimes it's one person, sometimes it's a family or a friend bringing another friend to learn something. A fairly new acquaintance gave me the best response not long ago after a
brief tour of our property and my fiber studio when he just looked at me and said "Thank you for doing this and keeping these skills alive."

I'm glad to hear that others are doing this. My work schedule makes it impossible to commit to teaching--I never know when I'll be out of town--but I talk about this stuff constantly and do everything I can to encourage people to seek out instruction. A local arts & crafts group does have classes on spinning and weaving, but I think the average person around here sees it as an artsy elitist place that they wouldn't be comfortable in.

Are you on Ravelry? If you are, come join us on the Chicken Littles group (http://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-chicken-littles). If you're not, then go quickly to http://www.ravelry.com and get on the waiting list (about a three day wait). International fiber community, huge numbers of knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers (over 166,000 members worldwide so far). Patterns, yarns, designers, thousands of pictures of other people's projects and what their experiences were with the particular yarn they used, etc, etc.) There are also many many sub-groups devoted to non-fiber things (like the Chicken Littles). I share with them a lot of what I find here, and bring info back here from many of them.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
Ravelry ID: lizw




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