The next Community Craft Circle
Friday January 5th
6pm- 8:30pm
Oil and Cotton Art Classes and Supply
2313 Beatrice Street Dallas, Texas 75208
We will celebrate the Twelfth Day of Christmas by taking up our spinning, knitting, and stitching while we polish off the Wassail Bowl!
I will have flax and tow on hand, (I plan to be spinning candle wicks from an especially coarse strick) but we will not be setting it on fire just yet.
For more fun about spinning linen, here are some old tales about The Three Spinning Women.
Bring a friend, bring a snack to share and come spend time with like-minded folks.
Saint Distaff’s Day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day
by Robert Herrick, 1648
Partly work and partly play
Ye must on St. Distaff's day:
From the plough soon free your team,
Then come home and fodder them.
If the maids a-spinning go,
Burn the flax and fire the tow;
Scorch their plackets, but beware
That ye singe no maidenhair.
Bring in pails of water, then,
Let the maids bewash the men.
Give St. Distaff all the right,
Then bid Christmas sport good-night;
And next morrow everyone
To his own vocation.
sadly I have to work on Distaff Day so I wont get to spin!!!