A few Sundays ago I hosted a spinning/knitting brunch with some of the retail staff from WEBS. I would call it a wild success. My new and fairly spacious apartment was packed with ladies and amazing food and spinning wheels. I’m not sure there is a better Sunday afternoon that I could conceive of.
KT brought organic bacon and lemon poppy seed French toast. I made eggs and fried potatoes with a three seed sauce which I improvised from another recipe. Deb made homemade salsa. We had fresh bread from local bakeries, mimosas, coffee, homemade pastries galore. I tried to get a picture that gave a sense of the magnitude of food we had on our hands, but I fear it doesn’t give it justice.
Honestly, breakfast took the majority of the allotted time we originally allowed for the brunch. But we stayed late to get a good amount of fiber arts in. KT generously allowed me to use her wheel which was my first foray into spinning. (In the spirit of full disclosure I did host this brunch with the ulterior motive of learning to spin from my cohorts.) Most of my fellow colleagues learned to spin from one of our resident spinners a couple months ago and I have been dying to get in on it. The staff has spinning fever, half the girls have ordered wheels and I have yet to get the drop spindle going. They very patiently let me mangle some roving before getting down to business.
We hope to make this a regular event and I dare say that everyone had as much fun as I did. I snapped a couple of rudimentary photos while we were preparing food just for blogging’s sake. Now that I’m finally getting around to posting this, I think we’re due for another!
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