Springwater Fiber Art Workshop, the Manning's store and classroom for fiber arts, weaving scarves, knitting sweaters

Nice store in Alexandria, Virginia (state with very ugly antigay politicians), Seriuosly, Northern Virginia is culturally different and more gay-friendly than the rest of VA, and should ideally let the rest of the state just drift off by itself.

oh well back to reality but, there is a balm in VA with such nice places as this nice place where weaving, knitting, spinning, crocheting is taught.
Weaving looms are in the back of the store for learning. Beautiful yarns of all kinds there like Manos of Uruguay, yarn hand dyed in kettles in that country. Beautiful wool from Peru in the natural colors of the sheep, brown, off-white, grey, etc.

I can't wait to get done with my friend's scarf and onto these beuatiful yarns. I want to go through my sweater class and take a weaving class at Springwater. One weaving classI'd like to do sometimes is at the Manning's in East Berlin, Pennsylvania.

One woman into weaving had offered me the use of her cabin so that I could stay there while I did a week-long class on weaving rayon chenille scarves which are like velvet. I really hope the offer is still open.

On the knitting side of things, I am wanting to get my hands on Michael DelVecchio's knitting book when it come out in the fall. I want a knitting book on men's knit fashions written by a man.

Most knitting books are written by women and the majority of patterns they publish are to do with women's and/or kid's knit fashions.

I bought a Daletta (Dale of Norway) pattern for a handsome-looking men's sweater. Pattern is called "Rustikk" (a Norwegian word). Maybe I could turn that one out one day. Norwegian sweaters I read are "knit in the round". I find the idea of "knitting in the round"a little intimidating as I am still used to dealing with fairly flat items like scarves. I can relate better to the idea of 4 separate knit sweater parts like front, back and 2 sleeves sewn together.