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We are very, very lucky to have the Slater Mill opened once again to support the textile (fiber) arts.  Last month, knowing that my schedule could almost handle it, I signed up to take Jan Doyle's weaving class.  It is more of an open workshop, all levels of competence, working on projects.  The mill opens the studio in off class hours on an irregular basis for additional time on the looms.  It sounded perfect and I needed a refresher.  There's a lot going on at Slater Mill and I'm taking advantage of as much as I can find the time to attend.  The Weaver's Guild of Rhode Island has moved to the Mill.  I joined after attending a few of their monthly programs.  More time.  Well spent.  Two Saturday's ago, Daryl Lancaster gave a guild workshop on color, predominately for warps.  Yep, I was there.  Last Saturday, The Rhode Island Spinning Guild met at the Mill.  It has also adopted it as a part time home.  There's more. Lots, but back to my project.. 

When I signed up for the class, I decided I wanted to try a hand-dyed warp.  After partially dressing the loom, and not finding the weft yarn that I had in mind, I dyed it too. With only about 12 hours of class time in the session, I am not very far along on the actual weaving.  This project will go into overtime.