Anoka Fiber Works

Anoka Fiber Works is a small business located northwest of Minneapolis.  The shop is made up of vendors, much like an antique shop, and the owner is Mary of Spinning Magic.  Some of the vendors, myself included, teach classes and occasionally guest instructors come to the shop to teach.  There is space to sit in the spinning circle or take a seat at one of the tables to work on projects  and make new friends.  AFW hosts classes and open social hours. 

Coming up the first weekend of April is the North Artists Studio Crawl.  AFW is Studio F.  Deb P. of Old Man Wool Farm will be joining Kathryn, Rob, and I this year.  

We returned from China on Thursday.  I slept for ten of the fourteen hours from Shanghai to Boston because I caught Jim's cold.  We had a great time in China and below are a few photo highlights from our trip.  

We climbed a portion of the wall on the second day.

A group of us took the subway to the night market in Beijing.

Outside the Temple of Heaven folks gather to socialize and exercise.  Yarn barf is universal!

With the help of Google Translate, we managed to order a delicious meal of chicken and chrysanthemum blossom dumplings with vegetables and some coconut juice.

Learning about the health benefits of green tea.

A mix of the new and the old on the river in Shanghai.

Old town Shanghai was bustling with activity.