Others will have posted about how fantastic our day with Helen Rippin (above) of Waratah Fibres was but it's my blog and I'll bore you if I want to.
An early start meant a fatty breakfast at the golden arches in Goulburn where
Spidey and I indulged in the mental chasing of sheep in a nearby paddock. Spidey also made the mistake of pointing out a couple of Westies in the carpark. I can be surprisingly speedy given the right motivation and my sprint to hijack Piper and Lucy, the wee Westie sisters, was just the excercise I needed. I won't go on - you'd have to love a Westie to understand. I may have delayed our trip by half an hour and made small children cry; I am unashamed.
Helen generously welcomed us into her home and arranged to have her friends, Glenda, Phil and Chris, there to wrangle us. Helen and Glenda have experienced the full-frontal attack on their wares by Spidey and me before - it was a sensible precaution.
Eleven of us, including the Monkey Sherpa, who charmed all with his fibre-fu, descended locust-like on Helen's home where a spindling class was set up in short order.





There was a cup of tea and some delicious home-made slices and pikelets, a quick trip to the auto-teller for extra readies (not just me), more S.E.X. and spindling.
Then there was lunch. Home-made gourmet pizzas (to add to her attractions, Helen is also a chef) and garden salad.
Lunch over, a dye worshop took place.


Then another cup of tea and birthday cake - KMS had the birthday we all wish for - and it was time for us to say good-bye.
Jealous? You should be. Helen Rippin's spinning and dying is divine. A BIG thankyou to Helen and her friends and to our Happy Spider, who organised our day.
Wanna see what I bought? Manana. ;)
10 comments:
Gosh!!!
You must have been blogging this just as I surfed and flicked through all of it.
Looking forward to a tour of the Graveyards.
Cheers Gillian
No boredom here. Just envy. I'm coming on the next roadtrip!
Lovely lovely lovely - you are a quack of lucky ducks (or should that be a dabble of lucky ducks!) - By the way are we a yarn of knitters, a fibre of knitters or a purl of knitters?
The collective noun has to be either a stash of knitters, or perhaps a ravel?
Mmmmmmmmm yarn!
I'm not at all bored - the more stories about this wondrous and happy day the better, in my opinion.
What a wonderful day, I'm so glad you had such a brilliant time - WITH Bonus Westies! Doesn't get much better!
I, too, am a sucker for little white dogs.
Jealous??? Why yes.....yes I am.
Oh I saw the Westie pictures at Ms Spider's blog!! I was a tea last night with Jock, the one-eyed Westie. He is so cute!! What great day, I was not bored by your pictures AT ALL!!!
Great pics Taph!! I'll have to link to yours as I left my camera at home on Saturday! Ooh... I am just busting to spin now!! Ordered my spindle from the OBD Markets on Sun... get it next week!!! (not sure if i can wait til then, I'm definitely hooked!!)
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