Wool distribution and new rugs

Last week I brought the donated wool to the village. As you can see from the photos also included were 2 bolts of fabric: one red one blue. I also brought down the 45 yards of white wool financed by Gene Shepherds group, Kate Kiely's group and the prize money from the San Antonio show. We are saving that white wool for dying purposes, which will take place this weekend. I got a great price on the red and blue wool so I purchased that as well since these are some of their most used colors.
You will note that they are now making little piles of all the donated wool. This is a new process. They place all the wool into color groupings and divided each color evenly between all the piles. This is a more democratic way to share the colors. I have no idea how this came about but I imagine some of the women were feeling they were not getting the best choice of colors. I find these small changes a good sign of their developing organizational skills. Also women are asking for what they want which is not traditional. There is an old tradition of women having no voice.

Also note photos of new rugs and a lovely photo of Boni. She had the big non-malignant tumor removed from her eyelid thanks to donations from some of you all.

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I have a meeting tomorrow with Marisposa, http://mariposassanmiguel.com/home.html, an embroidry project, and the Lavendar Project. These groups also help people in the villages. More on that later in the week.

Also note this link. http://mapaverdesanmiguel.org/directory/social.php?locale=en