What an exciting adventure ahead of you! Hope it is amazing! How long is the trip?

@Robert Mortensen I will try

@Mineko Murai thank you- it was beautiful here encased in ice

Hi all! I am Jeanne-Marie Oliver. Current artist in residence at FKT Farms. My story starts in pieces that didn't all exactly fit together until recently. My mom was an amazing and prolific knitter. My four sibling and I usually all got a new sweater for Christmas. Knitting was not for me. I just didn't get the holding of the yarn and manipulating the needles and well, I tried a sweater and it did not go go at all. But all those years exposed to fibers, my desire to be able to make cloth in case the world went awry and one very appreciated gift of weaving classes in 1993. Hey presto! I was hooked. I learned to weave when I was pregnant with my second child Alex, in Davis California. I loved it so much and finished his baby blanket the weekend before he came into the world. Some years were more filled with weaving projects but in the last 20, I have really focused on it. I even learned to hand spin. Not because I liked it at the time but because I love weaving with hand spun. I find it joyful and magically now. Death and dying were a huge part of my decision to join Bobby and Maj when they asked about building this community. They had supported me as I sat with my father in his last two weeks of life. We talked about how we wanted live our lives not just go through the motions. It was very easy for me to say yes. When my mother passed two years later and my children grown and thriving, being on the farm made so much sense. The another piece fell into our laps. One of Bobby and Maj's neighbors made them a offer that they couldn't say no to, just one week before we all left Colorado. They had 10 male alpacas, in various beautiful natural colors, four years of shearing and 75 felted blankets. I really hadn't worked with alpaca much but this was about to change. There was over three hundred pounds of wool. We started processing it ourselves but realized the sheer volume was too much. We started getting the processed wool back and I started creating and selling my woven goods. I hadn't really sold any of my work in the many years leading up to us getting here. A small shop in town started carrying and selling my textiles. Between the shows, the fantastic amount of alpaca wool and time, I have had a chance to really start to grow and stretch my weaving.