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(Continued from Page 3) Rush River, Kim will be offering workshops in weaving, dying with vegetables and spinning. She learned to spin on the old fashioned drop spindle rather than the newer old fashioned spinning wheel.
“After doing it for eight years, I like the drop spindle better. It’s more primitive but the same method is still used today in many cultures in Africa and South America. With a drop spindle, I can go from real thin to real thick on the same piece of yarn,” Kim said.
She can spin about 60 yards of wool—the equivalent of two ounces—in 40 minutes. It takes from 204o 24 ounces of wool to make a medium-sized sweater.
The spinning comes only after Kim has spent several hours on her knees, carding fleece straight off local sheep to align the fibers and remove twigs and tiny pieces of dirt.
Then she colors the yarn in the subtle shades of her natural dyes: light yellow from tumeric, purple from cochineal (an insect), varying hues of greens and browns from the roots, leaves and flowers of dandelions, gold from onion skins.
“The most consistent colors you get are browns and greens. To do blue, you must
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