Las Golondrinas, June 25, 2011

Illustrator Bob (Robert W.) Pacheco and I traveled to Las Golondrinas Living History Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for their Fiber Arts Festival. The bookstore there carries the book. We saw the wonderful 300-year-old ranch which includes a molasses mill, blacksmith shop, schoolhouse and water-powered grist mill. We met the historical interpreters who donate 700 hours a year to the museum and teach “colcha” a long-stitch embroidery of wool colored with natural dyes on hand-woven “sabanilla (woven fabric).”