Starting Fresh!

With so many new things happening for NaturallySpun, I wanted to ease the confusion and just start out new and fresh with this blog. As points of reference, I may include blog posts and pictures you may recognize from my previous blog, but almost everything here will be fresh, new, and exciting.

There are three exciting new developments for NaturallySpun.

The first is that hand-dyed and handspun yarn by NaturallySpun has been used in a cute holiday tree skirt pattern by Marie Haigh of KnittedGems.com. The tree skirt is called "O Tannenbaum" and can be found on Marie's blog and in her Etsy shop. A great friendship and working relationship has blossomed from working with Marie. She has left an over-whelmingly wonderful post on her website about our meeting and working together (her choices and my skill) to make the yarn perfect for her project. I encourage you to read her post here:

http://knittedgems.com/

As my workload stands right now, I can take just two orders for yarn similar to what Marie used in the tree skirt. This amount of yarn takes a couple weeks to complete and two orders would put me near family birthdays, the holidays, and the next exciting development.

November 8th and 9th NaturallySpun will be featured as a local artist on the Studio Tours 2008 sponsored by the City of Tacoma. To find out more information, please visit this link:

http://www.tacomaculture.org/arts/AWstudiotour.asp

NaturallySpun will be using Tacoma Art Place as my home studio. Tacoma Art Place is a local non-profit focused on bringing art to all at affordable prices.

http://www.tacomaartplace.org


In early 2009, NaturallySpun will be participating with the Pierce County Libraries and their Pierce County Reads program to bring a spinning program to the participating libraries. Throughout January, February, and March NaturallySpun will give demonstrations that will be designed around the selected book for 2009.

The book for 2009 has not been officially noted on the Library system website, once it is I will list it here for all to see. Yes, of course I know what it is :) In the meantime, here is more about the program and the book for 2008.

http://www.piercecountylibrary.org/reading-books/pierce-county-reads/Default.htm


I hope you have enjoyed the updates for NaturallySpun. It is going to get busy around here!