Stratford Britspin team plans to Spin a Rainbow
Britspin is a brand-new spinning event organised through Ravelry by volunteers to raise money for the National Air Ambulance Service and to offer spinners a fun competition. About a dozen Guilds of Weavers Spinners and Dyers from Cornwall to Scotland have entered teams (10 spinners max) to spin yarn over 4 days (11-14 October). Guild teams from this area include the Over the Rainbow (Stratford-upon-Avon) Team and the Team Cotswold Guild. Team Over the Rainbow are spinning in public from 12.30-3.30 on Thursday and 10.30-3.30 on Sunday at Rugby Art Gallery Museum Foyer. They will also spin from 10.30 to 3.30 at Southam (Tithe Place next to the Library, Southam High Street). To create a rainbow in four days they will be spinning a different rainbow colour each half day - so all of them spinning Red (Thursday afternoon), Yellow , Violet (Friday), Green , Indigo , (Saturday) Blue , Orange (Sunday). Other spinners, from our own guild or elsewhere, are welcome to spin along ...
