{"id":304,"date":"2008-02-20T11:19:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/20\/retreating-fibre\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:19:36","slug":"retreating-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/retreating-fibre\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreating Fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my first <a href=\"http:\/\/madronafiberarts.com\/\">fibre retreat<\/a> ever over the week\u00adend (actu\u00adally, a four-day week\u00adend, includ\u00ading Valentine\u2019s Day, which struck me as iron\u00adic). The organ\u00adisers of the retreat did a great job, giv\u00aden that the hotel was being ren\u00adov\u00adated, with some of the res\u00adtaur\u00adants and pub\u00adlic spaces closed, and work\u00aders crawl\u00ading over much of the rest of the hotel\u2019s pub\u00adlic spaces. It was run just like a tutori\u00adal-style con\u00adfer\u00adence, with three-hour classes where the instruct\u00ador talked a bit, showed a tech\u00adnique (for tech\u00adnique classes) or samples of end res\u00adults (for the artist\u00adic ideas classes), and then got you to try it out while they came around and helped. There were lots of tables set up for inform\u00adal get-togeth\u00aders, out\u00adside the classrooms and the marketplace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dif\u00adfer\u00adences to tech con\u00adfer\u00adences were obvi\u00adous \u2014 not a laptop to be seen, although I\u2019m sure some people went back to their hotel rooms at the breaks to blog or check email, giv\u00aden that many people appeared to work at loc\u00adal tech\u00adno\u00adlogy com\u00adpan\u00adies, and the male\/female ratio was even more skewed than for most tech con\u00adfer\u00adences (I saw about five men at the retreat, out of about 200). The mar\u00adket\u00adplace was busy selling as well as show\u00ading (unlike exhib\u00adit halls at most tech con\u00adfer\u00adences), though the vendors looked just as exhausted by the end of the four days as I can remem\u00adber being after long days on the booth at any oth\u00ader conference.<\/p>\n<p>I learnt a lot (I\u2019ll post more details of the knit\u00adting high\u00adlights on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runedesigns.com\">craft\u00ading blog<\/a>), saw a bit of Tacoma (where the retreat was held), met a few people, and hung out a lot with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmlgrrl.com\/blog\/\">Eve<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/yvonne\/\">Yvonne<\/a>. Culin\u00adary high\u00adlights included a yummy din\u00adner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildginger.net\/\">Wild Ginger<\/a> where we downed a good bottle of cham\u00adpagne (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chateauloisel.com\/vin\/champagne\/roses-jeanne.htm\">Inflor\u00ades\u00adcence Blanc de Noirs brut<\/a>, 100% pinot noir, from Jean-Pierre Bouchard and C\u00e9dric Bouchard), Eve\u2019s home-made bore\u00adkas, and a good quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/107394\">tagine<\/a>, which I\u2019ll be mak\u00ading&nbsp;again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m slowly catch\u00ading up on sleep; just like any con\u00adfer\u00adence it was pretty intense and was both invig\u00ador\u00adat\u00ading and exhaust\u00ading at the same&nbsp;time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to my first fibre retreat ever over the week\u00adend (actu\u00adally, a four-day week\u00adend, includ\u00ading Valentine\u2019s Day, which struck me as iron\u00adic). The organ\u00adisers of the retreat did a great job, giv\u00aden that the hotel was being ren\u00adov\u00adated, with some of the res\u00adtaur\u00adants and pub\u00adlic spaces closed, and work\u00aders crawl\u00ading over much of the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/retreating-fibre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cRetreat\u00ading&nbsp;Fibre\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-travel","tag-madrona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}