last workshop

out my window i had SUCH a view!

 my hosts run a garden gallery

where this goat resides.

i would indeed take him home if i could!

 the outside part of the shop

 all part of the winrergarden in geelong

 my class liked prepping papers for kami-ito

 they used the last of the mitsumata 

and mulberry papers i brought with me

and thoroughly enjoyed the ink sticks and walnut and kakishibu

 some looms were built

 beryl, my matriarch, 80 years young

worked long and hard

and was a delight.

 my hostess gillian

tidied up and ready to prep her papers.

 more papers with wonderful patterning

the experimenter kerrie!

 a finished weft-faced square of shifu

 i couldn't resist the purple!

 out back of the art center where the geelong class was held

(and thank you embroider's guild)

were these.

geelong was a big wool export site back in the day

as my students would say.

these relics i would also like to have 

at home. 

home is calling me, and i have this week in melbourne

time with friends

the distinct possibility of some very good ice cream

and hopefully fish and chips

and good conversations and fun and peacefulness

on my spring break

before i enter the great bird

for the long trip

back to my sweet north country.