A week ago Meadow Farm, the local museum where I volunteer had their annual Harvest Festival. This event features fall activities, pumpkin races, straw maze, music, candle, rope and cider making, and spinning FLAX into linen. Lines of children prepared their pieces of raw flax and then brought them to us to spin into bracelets. It was a very cold day, and for once, all the layers of the costumes we wear were welcome.
This group of photos shows the steps in breaking the flax outer layers off, to produce the fibers we use to spin. Note we have on gloves, this is how cold it was!!
Recognize these two? My grandchildren thought it was quite funny to see Nana dressed as an OLD LADY!
1 comments:
OH man that looks like fun, wish I were there... I spun up all them Meadow Farm fleece I got in the spring, dyed it with food coloring and made a Sheldon from knitty.com, he's so cute!
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