April 20, 2021 • SECTION SC Volume 24, I ssue 8
Spinning Their Wheels See page 4SC Members of the Sew What Club’s spinner group work together in the club’s meeting room. From left, Lill Helming, Audrey Friedman and Kay Larson discuss a recent yarn issue. PHOTO BY TOM MILLS
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Putting a spin on natural fibers is a hobby to dye for
PHOTOS BY TOM MILLS
Audrey Friedman, Lill Helming and Kay Larson spin yarn together in the Sew What Club meeting room.
By Katherine Mace CONTRIBUTOR
There is a mind-boggling variety of plant and animal fiber used in extraordinary ways by members of the Sew What Stitches and Crafts Club, one of Sun City’s oldest and most active clubs. Spinning and dyeing are two interesting variations. Sun City spinners and club members Kay Larson, Audrey Friedman and Lill Helming put their spinning wheels to use on all types of fiber – and it’s not just from sheep. They use fibers to make yarn from critters like alpaca, camel, and even silk worms, and plants like cotton, flax and hemp. Fibers are often blended from more than one source. Some spinners skirt (clean) and card (prepare) their own product; however, the fiber most often used by Sun City spinners is bought ready to use. Anecdotes and fascinating life stories are intertwined with spinning stories for these women. Friedman’s husband was on a business trip – “I think it was to Spain – when I bought a spinning wheel,” she said. “I
had to promise I would not buy a sheep.” Friedman is currently spinning a blend of bamboo and Merino wool fiber. Larson, a spinner since the 1970s, is using wool she got when she was on Gotlund Island, which is off of the Swedish coast. This beautiful, gray wool has not been dyed. It comes right from the sheep with this soft silvery hue. She declares there is nothing more calming. “Actually, I don’t think about much of anything when I spin. It’s meditative.” The act of spinning to make yarn twists fibers all in one direction. To make two ply yarn, the spinner uses two strands that are already spun, then reverses the direction of the wheel to spin the strands together, twisting them the other way. Both hands and feet are doing different things when one spins. Helming said she had to learn what to do with her hands first, and have someone else do the treadle. “It’s a rush when you get it right!” “You can’t do a treadle on a spinning wheel with shoes on,” Larson said. “Everyone spins in bare feet. You have to be one
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SPINNERS from page 4SC with the wheel.” Spinning to create yarn is just one thing the spinners can do with fiber. They can also dye it. Judi Kirby dyes yarn in her laundry room/ studio. The chemical process of dyeing is intriguing. Kirby buys powdered dye which she brings to life using simmering water and vinegar, which acts as a mordant (fixative chemical) to set the dye. As the fiber processes in the solution, the water become clear. Kirby says this is called “exhausting the dye.” She buys most of her yarn and dyes, but sometimes experiments. One cool thing she tried is botanical dyeing using a sock blank. A sock blank is a knitted rectangle, similar to a small scarf, with a loose end that can be unraveled as a person knits. It gets its name because all sock blanks are made with 400 yards of yarn – enough to knit two socks. Kirby explained it takes “a whole lot of day-old flowers” to dye a sock blank. She has to make many trips to the grocery store to collect flowers, which she stores in the freezer until she has enough. Then, she dyes
Judi Kirby dyes yarn in a pot on her kitchen stove.
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a little like a Victorian print. During the past year, her freezer was so packed with flowers that her husband asked that she cut back, or “we won’t have room for food.” Kirby makes small batch yarns in her operation which she has made into a business called Maggie Loves Yarn – named for Maggie, her deaf rescue dog, who does love yarn. “It took me three episodes of ‘The Crown’ to get one skein unraveled,” she said, after Maggie got hold of it. Dyeing yarn provides lots of room for creativity. The rich colors are gorgeous, but they can get splashed around during the process. “Bleach is my friend!” Kirby explained, as she pointed to her sparkling-clean white laundry room floor. Sew What Club members have a myriad of opportunities to work with fiber. For those interested in the art of spinning, contact Kay Larson at kaylarson51@gmail.com. If you want to know more about dyeing, contact Judi Kirby at kirbyjudi@hotmail. com. Katherine Mace is a writer who lives in Sun City.
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standard throughout. All amenities, including pools, should be powered by solar panels located on the building roofs and pool shade structures. Golf cart charging stations should be located at amenities throughout the entire SCHH community, as trips originating in Argent East to and from playing 18 holes at Hidden Cypress or Okatie Creek could overtax many cart batteries. We don’t need an increase in gasoline-powered golf cart use. Thought should be given to landscaping with native plants as they not only benefit the environment, but also, once established, they require no fertilizer, pesticides or supplemental watering. Lining lagoon edges with native aquatic plants will help maintain lagoon health by buffering the water from lawn chemicals. When designing the community layout, a greater effort should be made to retain established trees. Creating wildflower gardens or meadows instead of extensive lawns in appropriate common areas would add beauty and interest while saving the community maintenance cost. How about providing Argent East Okatie Farmers garden plots? Recent resident surveys indicate the southside nature trail is the community’s most loved amenity. It would seem that having an Argent East nature trail would be popular with future homeowners as well as being more accessible to northside residents. David W. Smith is a member of the Environmental Action Group of Sun City Hilton Head.
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‘Attack geese’ strike terror in those who already fear them By Chris Roosa CONTRIBUTOR
Years ago, my husband and I bought a 10-acre farm so that I was finally able to have my horses at home. The next-door neighbor came over and introduced herself – and brought along a calico kitten as a housewarming gift. “You need a barn cat,” she beamed. I’ve always been a little fearful of cats but cats do hunt mice, so I appreciated the gift. A few months later, she arrived with two white Pilgrim geese and seven ducklings. We named the parents Buddy and Missy. We had a pond that covered just over an acre. We released a couple of the ducklings into the pond and marveled at how cute they were as they floated around. One by one, in front of our eyes, they disappeared from view. That’s when we discovered we had snapping turtles. I hand raised the rest until they were adults and then placed them into the pond with no problem. I wasn’t aware that geese could be mean. And because I was so naïve, I had no fear, so they were always loving with me. Yet when my daughter would visit, I always knew the moment she arrived. Those two geese would lower their heads, flutter their wings, and fly about two feet off the ground, aiming right for her. We’d hear her terrified screams as she ran from her car to the house. The louder her screams, the closer my two little friends were to attacking her. I’d yell out, “Sharyl’s here!” They were my constant guard geese and I always knew when I had company. They ended up having a gosling – raised right there on the farm with me as the surrogate mother, feeding it cracked corn. The little fluff ball grew into a monster, viciously attacking me and biting my legs, daily at feeding times. I finally grabbed that little sucker
by his neck, brought him up to eye level and had a come-to-Jesus meeting with him, along with a verbal lesson in etiquette. From that point on, he behaved himself. One day I noticed Buddy hobbling. Upon checking him, it appeared one of the horses might have stepped on his foot. I picked him up, tied him in a black lawn bag, so he didn’t mess the car, held him and drove to the country vet. After examining him, the vet remarked, “Yeah, that looks pretty bad. You know Thanksgiving is next week.” I innocently stood there until the lengthy pause made me realize what the vet was implying. With shock and horror, I replied, “I don’t eat my pets, DO YOU?” So Buddy got a shot of antibiotics with instructions to soak his foot twice daily. I moved them into the attached garage and set up hay bedding. Every day I held Buddy’s feet in a bucket of warm Epsom salt while I sang him Christmas carols. This went on for three solid months. The neighbor phoned to tell me that my “attack geese” were over on her property attacking her while she was cleaning out a stall. At that point, it dawned on me why she had given them to me in the first place. She and her child were afraid. I walked over there. They were off in the distance. I called out and they both came running to me, squawking all the way. The neighbor took cover behind her fence. As they approached they both flew into my arms, chatting away like they were laughing at her. I looked at her and asked, “Are these the two ‘attack geese’ you’re talking about?” As I walked home, with them in my arms, I couldn’t help but laugh as they jabbered away like they were so delighted just to scare people. Chris Roosa is a resident of Sun City Hilton Head.
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