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Fiber Art - Norwegian - Andrea Myklebust

2017-02-11 Andrea Myklebust demonstrates her skill in spinning yarn and talk about her farm in Stockholm Wisconsin near the Pepin Lake on the Mississippi River at the Sons of Norway “Norsota” lodge in Apple Valley Minnesota. Lodge Facebook

In the summer of 2012, sculptors Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Sears moved an old decaying building one mile down the road to their piece of the property in rural Stockholm Wisconsin. The structure came from the homesteaded land of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s grandparents, giving the duo all the more incentive to try and save it.

Today, the building works as functional fiber art studio, known as Black Cat Farmstead. There Myklebust spins wool straight from her herd of sheep into unique fiber. Although was the big sculpture work that brought the Twin Cities-based artists out to the country where they now have a 2,200-square-foot studio, farm life and fiber art slowly made their way into Andrea Myklebust’s world.

“A few years ago I got some sheep,” she explained with laughter. “It was my mid-life crisis.” She says she was aiming at cheese-making, but then the sheep were shorn. Once Myklebust got the wool in her hands she said it was like a switch went off. “I completely went down the rabbit hole of traditional fiber art and got fascinated by both the processes, materials and tools. Over the past several years, I’ve been doing more of that kind of work.”

As a sub-culture spinning is still prevalent. Myklebust meets with a handful of other local spinners monthly. “It’s crazy,” she says of the resurrection of the yarn-making culture. “There are people that are still doing it.” Black Cat Farmstead is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, plus 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays from May to October. Find more information about her fiber art at or for Myklebust and Sears’ civic artworks at

blackcatfarmstead.com Welcome to the Black Cat Farmstead fiber studio & farm store!  Explore our site to learn more about our beautiful sheep, flax-to-linen production, handspun yarn, farm-grown wool & other supplies for handspinners and felters, one-of-a kind locally made goods & more!

The farm is now a family-friendly destination just 5 miles from the picturesque village of Stockholm, Wisconsin on the Great River Road, 90 minutes downriver from Minneapolis-St Paul, and about an hour from Rochester, Eau Claire and LaCrosse.  Visitors to the yarn farm can meet the sheep, goats and other farm animals who live here, purchase farm-raised wool and hand spun yarns, see demonstrations or take a class in spinning, weaving and other crafts.

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Oslofjordens Friluftsråd. OF ble stiftet i 1933, og har hele tiden jobbet for at alle som bor rundt fjorden skal ha tilgang og muligheter til å bruke den og strendene rundt. Dette er landets viktigste rekreasjonsområde. Daglig bruker tusener av mennesker fjorden og strandområdene. Bruken varierer; en eller annen form for båt, på tur langs vannet, kanskje på en kyststi, overnattende i telt eller kystledhytte, nyter sommerens late dager ved en strand eller bruker fjorden til en mengde andre aktiviteter. Medlemmer i OF er viktige bidragsytere i arbeidet for å gi friluftslivet en stemme.