Tuesday the 22nd

Nat and Mihoko had to drive to New York last minute for a funeral.

I picked up a sweet woman from the airport.
Ann traveled from Georgia to take an intensive Saori weaving class. She weaves at home, but she wanted to rejuvenate her creative side. She knows how to do all of the technical things in weaving, but she needed to get out of her head. She wanted a vacation from conformity. I met her at the Logan airport at 1:15pm, and we immediately had a million things to talk about. She has blue streaks in her hair, she has a lovely Georgia accent, and she has 4 children. The drive from Boston to Worcester we spoke about everything from health and alternative doctors, to figure drawing modeling and small towns. At one point my GPS took us on an exit and immediately told us to turn around and get back onto the Mass Pike. Ann and I laughed and laughed and made fun of it for getting us lost. When we got to Saori, I showed her the studio and we went inside to get her settled in the house. We then went grocery shopping (for her week of classes and living in Nat and Mihoko's home) and then had our weaving class at night.

A stand-in for Mihoko, Katherine, was there to run the show, Ann was a pro at setting up and threading her loom. I got to (re)thread a loom with my warp threads. I feel like i am not very good at this yet. But I will keep learning and growing.

:)