About 5 year ago, I met a woman at the NJ State Fair (which starts this weekend…yay!). She had a loom,we chatted briefly, and went our separate ways. A few weeks later, we bumped into each other again at Millbrook Village, and chatted some more. We realized that we lived in the same community and ran in the same circles…
As it turns out, I had been turning spinning tops and I had a few pictures on my phone, so I showed her… she introduced me to Betty, who was more of a spinner and said “wouldn’t these make great drop spindles?” Betty about fell off her chair…
That’s how ForestLakesTreen was born. Almost.
I struggled with a name, and I was originally going to make spoons and other wooden kitchen focused craft. I could never carve an S, and so I started trying to figure out what I could do with straight lines. I live in Forest Lakes. Treen is an old word for woodenware. A conjoined FLT is easy. ForestLakesTreen was official. And then I started making spindles… and still couldn’t make an S…
So, a chance encounter, an inability to make a curved line with a knife and 5 years later…I’m still making these,even though 1/2 my audience is gone.
