Cleaning the classroom!

Classes have started up again, which means we have to keep the classroom clean. It's hard - we use the classroom for unloading all of our shipments, and I use it to take pictures of everything for the website. We also use it for our show and tell - we bring things in that we are working on and show them to each other each day. This is what it looked like last night, right before we had to clean it for Suzie's class: Michele and Barb are taking a weaving class and this is Michele's table runner.
Joy drove up the other day to give us some of her craft supplies that she no longer wanted. I was most excited about the Puritan frame for my rug hooking! I love it and it is so much nicer than my hoop. And I'm already inspired by her stash of wools. Only about another week until I finish my rug. We will have to wait for a slow day to go through all of the other amazing things she gave us. Thanks Joy!!!

Tomorrow is a dyeing day. I mean dyeing wool. Did I mention... we're adding rug hooking? And we are so excited! Barb said the other day that I've corrupted her. Before she worked here, she worked at a church and was a pretty clean cut broad. She never imagined that stripping(1) and hooking(2) would be part of her job... and so much fun! (Please don't tell her husband!)

(1) strip*ping the process of cutting wool into strips
(2) hook*ing the process of pulling wool strips through a backing with a crochet like "hook"