Anyone going to Pennsic 38?  I'll be there on the 30th.  Looking forward to lots of classes this year.  I always love learning new techniques.  I'm camped down in the bog with Regnesfolke/Myrkfaellin.

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Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:51

Cheekyredhead (not verified)

I'm very dissapointed that I can't go this year but my student Lady Elizabeth Underhill will be there and is teaching a class on spinning.  At the end of her class will be a one hour round table disccussion of textile work that's open to spinners of all levels.  I know that weavers wouldn't be turned away if you wanted come and share your work too.  If you don't spin yourself perhaps you'll find a spinner or two that would like to collaborate on a sheep to shirt project!

If I'm well enough to go to war next year (I was recently diagnosed to Rheumatoid Arthitis and don't have my meds straight to not be in pain yet, I camp with Sharc out by the back gate, just could do all the walking from that far to "town" yet)  I want to get a group of spinners and weavers together for a sheep to shawl (or just fabric).  I live in the East but play a lot in AEthelmearc.  My dream is to get groups from different kingdoms to each do a handspun woven piece that could be auctioned off for their own kingdom travel fund.  Right now this is just a dream.

Cheeky/Christine/Iseaulte Thomaswyf

Fri, 07/17/2009 - 15:10

Lisas Fleeces (not verified)

I'll be going to Pennsic, we'd planned to be there right after land grab but it looks like we won't be there till late 29th or 30th after all. I play with Meridies but don't camp at Pennsic with them. I camp with Azami Ancien and hang out with and camp with folks from Aethelmearc, but I tend to lay low. I have major fibromyalgia issues so I can sympathize a great deal with Cheeky. It takes me days to recoup from the 14 hr drive and the heat and sun issues. I mostly just rest and hang out and don't plan big activites. I leave that to the high energy bunch.

 I've been doing sheep to shawls in various time periods for a long time. I get volunteered to do demo's and teach, and produce stuff for people who don't spin, weave, etc. I am soooo burned out on doing it for groups, I don't want to do it anymore. Somebody just volunteered the weavers in our group (meaning me, only weaver in our group that I know of) to weave 20 yards of stuff on an inkle loom for site tokens in a month. We'll guess what! I'm going to Pennsic! Weave it your self! Bad attitude, I know, but I'm trying to develop my own stuff!

I'm up to visiting but not group projects. Gotta come up with a small class for our group anyway. Maybe dyeing. Ya'll ought to try that nasty Pennsic water to dye in. You don't need any mordant! there is enough iron in it you get great greens from the goldenrod up there-even on cotton! Yah, that's what I'll do, lets play in a small dye pot! Some of the wells at Pennsic are better than ours. We have the stuff that coagulates and eats orange rings into plastic dish pans. We sure don't drink it!

We'll miss you and think about you Cheeky, hang in there!

 

Maya, who will be haning out in the shade as much as possible.

Sat, 07/18/2009 - 18:58

ladyblacksun (not verified)

I'm actually planning to attend that spinning roundtable.  Though I did notice in the inital class schedule that it says 1 hour for the timeslot, and that the second hour there's another class (introduction to paternosters) in that same location.  Not sure if that got straightened out.

Last year I didn't go to pennsic, I had chemotherapy and radiation treatments for hodgkins lymphoma that ended in May, and I wasn't sure during prereg that I would be well enough to consider camping at the bottom of the hill. (I'm still not sure about camping at the bottom of the hill ;) ).  And of course it was gorgeous and beautiful and I wish I'd gone.  Hopefully the weather this year will be forgiving.

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