SpinQuest 2013 was terrific!
It met at the Blue Ridge Arts Council gallery space in Front Royal, VA on Saturday, August 24th all day!
This year the Quest roughly doubled in size. There were over two dozen "quest-ers" and about a dozen vendors, educators, and organizers.
This is truly a pure spinning event! The focus of the vendors was all spinning materials, the focus of the classes and discussion groups were all spinning topics, and the production of the day was spinning.
Avalon Springs Farm did a speaking engagement at this year's event, the topic was "Perspectives of a Fiber Farmer." I brought many samples of diverse natural fibers and talked about attributes as well as choosing fiber.
There were a lot of neat activities and classes over the course of the day.
Pictured through out is this year's thematic project.
Participants were given a two-sided page with a color replica of a famous work of art/craft on each side. The rule was that you could not choose which page you received, but you could pick from the two sides which work of art to focus on.
Then participants were allowed to choose their Quest-kit and many extras that were offered in order to Spin The Essence of their visual art reference.
I think these are just so lovely to look at. They are amazingly successful.
All of them are artistic and creative and interesting in their connections to their inspiration art piece.
Some of them you can barely untangle in these photos which is 3-D and which is 2-D. I wish I were a better photographer because in person that was an even greater phenomena.
Enjoy.
Thank you to: SpinArtiste, Wild Hare, and ThreeRavens fiber studios for all their hard work and creative efforts into making such a wonderful day!
