This is the sign for our group these days! Enough sugar to make it a sweet time for all of us as we continue to work on the crafts that seem to come so naturally...

The tea pot is filled with the reminiscences of the afternoon - now turned to tea leaves. and in the middle of it is the mash up of contributions -looking gorgeous!

learning from our mothers...

We began our work on obi belts today... hours of work left me with an "h" and an "o"... part of "home" that will eventually be spelled out.

In the quiet of the afternoon, women drank tea, knit, crocheted, embroidered and thought about home.

Today part of what we chatted about was how each of us learned to knit and crochet. We found out that women learned in schools and from the hands of their mothers and grandmothers. Some of us also learned to memorize patterns from a quick look at a book that is too expensive to purchase.

imagine

We have been working at Evangeline this autumn and imagining the kinds of transformation that can take place... Here is a banner that we have imagined. We hope to be able to work toward the creation of a series of banners which incorporate the work that we are doing there... bringing the inside, outside...