This will be a learning curve for me! Not only am I starting a blog on my website, I am committed to teaching a tutorial for Local Cloth for its members to help them promote their work and to contribute to the Local Cloth Blog.

From their website:

“Local Cloth is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to growing the fiber supply chain in Western North Carolina and enhancing the lives of those who make their living in fiber industries. We support a thriving community consisting of farmers, fiber artists, suppliers, designers/sewists, educators, students, and small scale fiber mills.”

Look for Local Cloth member interactions on their Facebook and Instagram page

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed us all to move to virtual interactions while awaiting re-opening. I am socially surviving and meeting new friends on our Virtual Handwork Circle that we have been holding every Friday from 4-6 pm using the all popular Zoom! I host it from my closet office in a spare bedroom. You can sign up on the Local Cloth/Workshops page each week in order to get a Zoom invitation. We discuss our work, our lives, and love to show and tell what we are making or have already made. I pick up lots of tips about sources for materials, techniques, and inspiration. Some of us even call it cocktail hour.

Here are some new friends. During a few minutes in the middle of the handwork circle, Ellen Knoefel gave a short discussion of Project Linus. You can see my notes on the Local Cloth Blog.

This was the session May 8, 2020 when we had a presentation of Project Linus: handmade blankets for children in distress.