Local wool spinner to demonstrate at Greene Co. arts, crafts festival

Susanna Carter will demonstrate how she spins wool into yarn for clothing and other decorative uses at the Scull Shoals Spring Craft Festival and Tours Day.

Susanna Carter spins and dyes wool to make the clothes she wears to teach second-graders, getting them off to a good educational start. Susanna will demonstrate her craft and show her naturally- died wool yarns at the Scull Shoals Spring Crafts Festival and Tours day, on Saturday, May 3, at the old mill town in Greene County. Since spinning and weaving were the two prominent industries in 19th century Scull Shoals mills, they are featured in the Craft Festivals as well.

Susanna and her husband have raised their own sheep and sold the wool and her spun yarns at farmers' markets and craft shows for 30 years. They also raise sheep for other spinners. She and her friend Cheryl White, a well-known Greene County weaver, have worked together for years. Cheryl White will also be weaving at this year's Scull Shoals Craft Festival. They are two of the more than a dozen craft spe- cialists who will be demonstrating at the Festival, May 3. The Carters are gradually moving into the organic farming business, with year-round crops in their greenhouse at their home near Tignall, GA, between Elberton and Washington. They plan to continue raising sheep, spinning and dying the wool with natural dyestuffs, which are much appreciated by other textile craft people.

The Scull Shoals Craft Festival and Tours Day will run from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. There will be a $5 parking fee and a covered dish lunch for a slight extra fee. Children may enjoy making paper and candles they can take home with them, and they will have plenty of room to run around in the old mill village.

For maps and directions as well as additional information, see the Friends of Scull Shoals website at www.scullshoals.org, or call Peggy Sommer at 706-769-5876, or Bob Skarda at 770-846-1859.

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