I decided that spinning on the Statehouse grounds would be a nice symbol, not of political spin but of combining disconnected fibers of the community into a strengthened unit of yarn.
I began in February, 2007 spending some lunch hours and some weekend hours spinning with a drop spindle and chatting with folks who wanted to stop to ask what I was doing. I then decided that I really needed to get out and about town with this project. I have gone to the Southeast branch of the library a couple of times. I plan to try to visit as many parks (and other locations?) as I can.
The resulting yarn then needs to move the winning chain forward in some manner. Since this is the first project, my plan is to advertise for other creative folks who can brainstorm how this yarn might be used in a Community Handworks kind of way. In that way, I'll be able to share the idea of community building through creative work.
Right now, I am concentrating on getting the yarn spun - in public and in various locations throughout the community.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. -Margaret Cho
