I have been volunteering at the Henry Ford Museum for nearly three years. Most weeks I get up early and aim to be on the road by 6 to make the trek to Dearborn to work with Fran, the museum’s textile conservator. Each time I go I learn new things and feel extremely privileged to...

                            Yesterday an icon in the fiber world and a good friend passed. Anne Field lost a very long battle with stomach cancer. Anne literally wrote “the book” when it came to spinning and weaving. Hers was the first spinning how-to book...

Some stories deserve to be told. So, this is a tale about the King’s Cow. Joy, Cathy (from LaCrosse) and I went to the Norwegian Folk Museum in Oslo. It is very similar to the Henry Ford and Greenfield Village. We found the museum’s exhibit of Norwegian handicrafts totally fascinating. Lots of rosemåling (decorative painting),...

A week into our Norwegian adventure and we seem to be pulling the sun along with us! It has been raining here A LOT. Rivers are full to overflowing, mountain streams are beautiful with their raw power, but when we are out and about and needing sun – or at least no rain – the...

Today, June 26, begins the third full day of this adventure. Our trip over “the pond” was uneventful. The 7.5 hour flight was full of knitting. Joy got about 15 minutes of shut eye, but I was still running on excitement and kept on knitting. And dropping needles. That is certainly a good argument for...