Thursday, January 20, 2011
THE ROAD TO TAOS, Part Three
Mabel Luhan Lodge
Dear readers, it's cold out there, at least where I live. Every time I go to the window and see cold and white, I end up yearning for warm and any other color, preferably multiple colors. So, my imagination goes wandering back to Santa Fe and Taos, the site of last year's Road to Taos excursion. Guess what? I'm planning another one, this time three weeks later in June. Yes, we'll be up in the mountains where the air is fresh and cooler while knitting, yarn foraging, shopping for beads and eating wonderful food in the Land of Enchantment. Interested? Consider this:
- we'll be staying 3 nights in Santa Fe for the sole purpose of doing some serious yarn crawling
- we have a special workshop planned with on Creative Embellishment Valentina Devine at her studio in Los Alamos . Not only will we have lunch at her place but we'll also have a chance to shop for more yarn, all good (good+good=better than best)
- our accommodation in Taos is at the historic Mabel Dodge Inn where Mabel met Chief Tony Luhan and together they built an amazing adobe lodge that would entertain Georgia O'Keefe and DH Lawrence among other luminaries. Did you know Mabel taught the women at the Taos Peublo how to knit? Her spirit embues the lodge. She loves knitters
- Our day trips include the Millicent Rodgers Museum, the town of Areyo Seco for foraging and a hot spring spa
- Multiple opportunities for visiting La Lana, that mecca of hand-dyed lustrous yarn and spinning batts, will unfold for you during our stay
- and we will eat well, very well, at the lodge
And men will feel quite at home here. I always have one with me, who happens to love knitters, one in particuliar. He is know affectionately as the Hairy-legged Swift and has become very popular with yarn-ravenous knitters who just need to unwind after a long day.
WILL YOU JOIN US? DETAILS HERE:
http://www.janethornley.com/blog/index.php/site/SantaFe/
