The Flax to Linen potluck tea went well - good food, not overly crowded which was good as it gave a lot of people a relaxed time to learn how to work some of the tools for spinning and weaving.  I always love the demonstration of "dressing the distaff" and I think the use of the drop spindle was a bit hit with a CD drop spindle.  A few people were very proud of their new found skill.  Practice, practice.

Flax to Linen Victoria is having a gathering

If anyone local is interested, we are having a potluck tea - just bring some finger food to share It’s free:

Monday February 10th , (BC’s Family Day)

Public invited from 1:00 to 5pm at Sons of Norway Hall, 1110 Hillside ave Victoria BC

Pot luck afternoon tea (finger food), DVD, slide show, making

spindles, spinning lessons, spinning and weaving demonstrations, seed packaging and sales. Flax seed packs will be available for a donation. Enough for one square metre of your own flax!

We have a video made  in 2013 at SHAS. It's a revised copy of a previous one.

Another video taken 2013 at James Bay Market of Beatrice weaving her bookmarks.

Sunday January 5th.
I've made some minor corrections and changes to this blog today.  Seems every time I read it I find something I want to fix. One major add - I found the names of the two people who helped make the rotary break work shown on the processing page..