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I really enjoyed teaching a three-day workshop for Taos Wools Festival in October. I taught in this same room last year but they’ve expanded it and now there are some windows. The class was fun and funny and they wove a lot in three days.
We were working with Taos Wools Chica yarn. This is a gorgeous churro yarn that is hand-dyed by Joe Barry himself. For this workshop there were piles of little skeins in all sorts of colors. It was definitely like being in a candy shop!
The first weekend of October is festival time in Northern New Mexico. This year I was at the Taos Wools Festival in Taos the first Saturday of the month. I was there to enjoy the beautiful festival and to teach a three-day tapestry class. The festival was a riot of fiber and beautiful woven things, sheep, yarn, food, and lots of chatting among fiber lovers. The class was three packed days of weaving, learning, and laughing.
The small festival is held on the grounds of Revolt Gallery in the shade of some beautiful big trees, just a small skip north of the Taos plaza. Joe Barry who owns Taos Wools organizes this festival which he started when the original Taos Wool Festival moved to Santa Fe. Joe hated to see the popular festival leave, so he replaced it with an event that has a lot of soul as well as wonderful fiber fun.
I had a wonderful time in Taos last week. The three-day Tapestry in Taos workshop focused on using churro yarn hand-dyed by Taos Wools to depict something about our environment there. I had a committed group of students and we enjoyed being near the center of town at Revolt Gallery.
Driving into Taos the night before the workshop, it was raining hard and then the rainbow pictured at the top of the post appeared over Taos Pueblo. It seemed a good omen for the week since we were weaving about the Taos area.
