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What a Perfect Day!

The SMGSW's Annual Spinning Bee was held this past Saturday at Tare Shirt Farm in Berwick.  Tare Shirt Farm is the beautiful 18th century farm & home of Peter and Nancy Cook. 

Patti, Eileen, Carol and I packed up our wheels and headed there for a lovely afternon of spinning under the apple trees. 

Words can't describe how wonderful the day was, so I won't even try.  I'll just share some pictures from the day.

 

Nancy & Peter Cook

Carol, Eileen, (my wheel), Patti

Jacqueline Fee (Nancy's Mother)

Spindle Spinning Contest

I started the day with two two-ounce balls of this lovely Romney/Mohair roving which was part of my gift bag of goodies that Marianne gave me for my birthday.  As you can see, I managed to spin one of the balls while visiting friends and enjoying the beautiful day.  This fiber is a joy to spin and I'm hoping the weather is good next weekend so I can take my wheel out on the deck for some more spinning outside.  There's nothing quite like spinning outside on a beautiful day.

 

 

Spinning Bee

The weather here has been really NASTY lately. It's been raining nearly every day this month, but it seems to have stopped for the time being. I sure hope the rain stays away for a while; I'm sooooo sick of it. Everyone is getting a wee bit crabby (yes, even me).

 

Last Saturday was one of the few days we've had without rain. Good thing too, because that was the day of the SMGSW Annual Spininng Bee.

   

Myself, Patti, Carol, Eileen and Sharon went for the first time this year  and had a really good time (we missed you, Brenda). 

 

 

The Spinning Bee was held at Tare Shirt Farm in Berwick, home of Peter and Nancy Cook.  

(as always, click on any of the pics to enlarge)
   

It was the perfect setting for a day spent outdoors with fellow fiber enthusiasts.

 

 

 

There were competitions (none of our group competed - we're chickens) for the fastest spinners on spindles and wheels and for the fastest niddy noddy winder.

 

 

 

Peter gave us a very interesting tour and history of the farm. 

 

There is a beautiful barn on the property filled with antique spinning wheels, skein winders, niddy noddy's, weaving loom, and so much more. So incredible to see all that in one place.

 

     

The Guild members who worked so hard to put this Spinning Bee together wore the cutest "worker bee" name tags:

 

Some had titles - Peter, The King Drone(on the left); Nancy, The Queen Bee(in the purple vest) and Jackie, Nancy's mother, The Queen Mum (in purple next to Nancy)  

 

It was such a wonderful day; I look forward to attending again next year. I'll leave you with some more pictures.