We spent a weekend together as a family with our friends of Griffin Dyeworks, at their annual Dye & Fiber Retreat, held in beautiful Camp Verdugo Oaks. For the past few years, we have been enjoying the creative energy of some amazing people who are dedicated to sharing their fiber arts and crafts. Jennifer has been teaching Tunisian crochet and other handwork for the retreat. The children have been joining in and participating with the various crafting classes. This year, Ricky created a glass stone bowl soldered with copper and tin. Joey needle-punched a design of her own. We tie-dyed shirts, and hand-dyed many yarns and silks. Ricky and I, on our down time, whittled manzanita branches into knives!
We love the company of our creative friends, and the food was fantastic! What makes the retreat so wonderful for us is that, as a family, we can enjoy our tent pitched under a magnificent oak with birds singing, and the sun would rise warmly over the hills. And together, we can engage our family spirit in creative work that we all love.
the morning view from our tent
preparing yarn for dyeing
dyeing yarn
needle-punching
assembling the glass and copper bowl
impromptu music
our gosh yarn it! store at the retreat
hand-dyed yarns
teaching a tunisian crochet class
tie-dyeing
crafting all weekend
our weekend work 
4 comments:
Your creative weekend is wonderful! I can see why the Tan family enjoys participating each year. It is a perfect weekend full of many interesting activities.
what a neat adventure! SO much to learn!
What a fantastic resource your blog is! I am a homeschool mom up in Canada...always on the look out for inspiration! I think I'll find alot of it here! Thank you!
Maureen
Rick,
Just saw your guest post on The Magic Onions, and it was so timely. I'm working to bring more Waldorf education into our home, but find it appeals more naturally to my girls. My son is (naturally)into superheroes, vikings, knights...he's just not into the gnomes, toadstools, and fairies I see on so many sites/blogs! I'm glad I found your blog...I'm sure it will offer lots of help!
Stephanie
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