I successfully got the correct bus to Blonduos this morning and for a while I wondered if we would ever get here as we stopped at every small town and places where there were no towns but arrive we did.  These are pictures taken from the bus on the way here.

When I got off the bus I met Amanda from Toronto who is also here for the month of May, she is a weaver and is going to do lots of sampling and some summer/winter (two sided weaving).

A lady from the Textile Centre and her two kids, today is a national holiday so the kids are out of school, brought us to the Centre and gave us a 5 minute tour. We both unpacked and looked around, we are fortunate that the grocery store was open today so we both picked up supplies for a couple of days. It was a bit of a challenge to try and figure out what some things are, it works if there are pictures on the front but could not figure out what some other things are.

We we came back, unpacked the groceries and it was time to do some felting. I have not used the wool that was waiting for me here, I ordered it online a couple of weeks ago, so I did a sample to see how it felted and how much it shrinks.  It does not felt a quickly as merino and it is hairier and it comes in batts so not what I am accustomed to working with but I will figure it out.

After supper I started on a starfish to see how working with a resist using this wool is, I have rolled 800 times and still need to roll more but that can wait until tomorrow, at this point merino would be ready for the resist to come out but not this Icelandic wool.

This is the view from the studio, isn’t it inspiring?

 

Off to to bed I go so I can felt up a storm tomorrow and see some more of the town.