slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Blue Ridge Parkway
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In late April, I attended my second “Mountains Are Calling” fiber retreat, hosted at Big Lynn Lodge, just across the road from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Little Switzerland, North Carolina. This was basically an excuse for fiber artists of all persuasions to get together in a beautiful setting, and it happens three times a…
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It’s time for my annual ritual of summarizing the previous year and writing about my hopes and plans for the next year. In 2025, I let go of more of my blogging and turned my blog into more of a web site. In late January I headed to Tucson, Arizona to visit my dear friend…
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A long weekend over Halloween at the Big Lynn Lodge in Little Switzerland was another balm to my soul. I found this group of fiber artists on Facebook, and not knowing a soul there, I headed off for the Blue Ridge Mountains again. Now I have a new group of friends. The only requirement to…
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Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. I am 3/4 of the way through! I may even finish this in time for Christmas! Although we had to vacate our rooms by 9:30 a.m., my classmates cleaned up the studio and we trickled out until it was just Edwina and I, working on my tapestry and her on a…