Mat-Su events calendar (6/29/11-7/5/11)
The Greater Palmer Chamber of Commerce , noon-1 p.m., Palmer Moose Lodge, 1136 S. Cobb St. A weekly lunch for local business people to provide networking opportunities and update the local business community on what is occurring within the Palmer area. $7-$4 for lunch, $4 meeting fee. (745-2880, www.palmerchamber.org )
Kids Learn to Spin!, 10 a.m.-noon, Fantastic Fibers, 1035 S. Cobb St., Palmer. Kids will make their own drop spindles, then learn to spin wool into yarn. They'll also learn about the process of shearing a sheep, cleaning the fleece, carding wool and basic spinning terms and history. $20, materials extra. (745-7295)
Strong Seniors Program, 10-11 a.m., Wasilla Area Senior Campus, 1301 S. Century Circle. Seniors, work out with your friends in the Club50 Fitness Center located in the main building. $5 for 8 weeks. (376-3104 option 2)
Bingo , 1-3 p.m., Wasilla Area Senior Campus, 1301 Century Circle. For ages 18 and older. (376-3104)
Midnight Sun Lazy Man's Triathlon, Wasilla Lake, East Parks Highway. Experience an Ironman Triathlon at your pace by accomplishing 112 miles by bike, 2.5 miles of swimming and 26.2 miles of running before July 22. Alternate activities can sub in for the mileage. $25, includes shirt and barbecue. (355-6110, sites.google.com/site/midnightsunlazymantriathlon/home )
Mat-Su Kids Bike-n-Hike Summer Program , 6-7:30 p.m., UAF Experiment Farm, 1509 S. Trunk Road. Summer program introduces kids ages 6-18 to biking and hiking. Biking is Wednesday, hiking is on Saturdays. Locations will vary. All abiliies welcome to participate. Individual $20, family $40. (982-7553, www.vmbah.org )
How to Make Love Like an Alaskan ... Sleepless in Soldotna , 6- 7:30 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday, Sheldon Community Arts Hangar, 22249 S. D St.. Talkeetna. This hilarious sketch and improv comedy celebrates the myriad absurdities of love and romance Alaska style. Some adult content. Beer and wine available. $25. (733-7929, www.denaliarts council.org )
THURSDAY
Building and Maintaining a Healthy Self-Relationship Part 2, 7-8 p.m., Alaska Center for Acupuncture, 642 S. Alaska St. Suite 208, Palmer. The discussion will explore the difference between worth and esteem and set in motion a positive formula in which to live our lives genuinely. Call to pre-register. Space is limited. Free. (745-8688, www.alaskaacupuncture . com/pdf/ACA-workshop-father-christopher-2-June2011.
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She also runs the Fiber Arts Studio where she works with wool. "I dye my own yarn, dye my own roving and spin my own wool." Howard also teaches fiber arts in a home school co-op. She sells hand-dyed wool, roving and drop spindles at the Alley Cat
In the Middle Ages, it was a woman who supported herself by spinning wool; one of the few ways to make money that didn't demand a Y-chromosome. Essentially, she was Melanie Griffith in Working Girl minus 600 years. It was only centuries later that she
Kids will make their own drop spindles, then learn to spin wool into yarn. They'll also learn about the process of shearing a sheep, cleaning the fleece, carding wool and basic spinning terms and history. $20, materials extra. (745-7295) Strong Seniors
I'm not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes." That's not to say food cost is everything at the Gypsy Joynt. Weller said a farmer came to his back door just the other day with a flat of blueberries. "His berries were probably 10 percent more than
New lines of yarn are coming too; I don't want to forget my knitters!,” she said. Mankowski started knitting seriously in the mid-nineties. She wanted to learn to make socks and sweaters. About five years ago, she learned to spin art yarn and has been
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In case you haven't seen it here, I love lace. I'm a lace junkie. I love how it turns a pile of string all looped together that looks like a dog's breakfast into stunning beauty when it's all dressed. (That's right. Ordinary knitting is blocked. Lace knitting is dressed. Not that it's snobbish or anything.) You can bring me to my knees when you open up a stunning lace piece that looks like it's been knitted from frog hair on size zero^googolplex needles.
Nothing new in the home front regarding the cats. Sammy is recovering from the state she got herself into from grieving for Maisie. Buster is finding that Fritz, while a fun playmate for a while, tends to be like the pestering kid brother and follows him around wherever he goes.
And Fritz? Well, let's say he isn't the brightest bulb in the sign. I like to call him a clown short of a circus. He's just now learning to come to his name but it takes a fair bit to do it. He hasn't figured out to leave Buster or Sammy alone when they cuff him and hiss. It also takes him a while to figure out that when I'm coming out of the kitchen and he's right there that to get out of my way he can turn around and walk faster (he walks backwards instead and is pretty good at it). But he's a playful, friendly, sweet-natured dope. He's figured out that he's not going outside without a harness on (which he doesn't like) so he doesn't dart out.
And that's the news from Chez Runamuck! Have a good summer!How To Spin Wool - Bookshelf
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