Peace Fleece Visit

My Shopping Shawl Pattern will be appearing in a joint venture with Peacefleece this spring, which prompted me to leave Portland and drive up to Porter Maine to visit the base of operations.  I first learned about Peacefleece 15 years or so ago when I was living in Hawaii and we had to order some wool yarn for the Waldorf School knitting classes.  I was very pleased that we were ordering yarn from Maine, but when the package arrived I was thrilled.  The yarn was gorgeous and the "business plan" of this company was so inspirational.  I am not going to try to explain it to you here; go to the website and read for yourself.  I don't think I could do it justice.  The idea of creating personal relationships across geographical and political barriers, and having those relationships be an integral part of a business; the concept of using your business to increase the goodness in the world in many small ways, really took hold of my imagination.  I  believe that the foundation stones of Threads of Meaning were laid in Kea'au Hawaii when I opened that box and read the little folder that Pete and Marti Hagerty had included.