Resolana - Colcha!

Annette Gutiérrez Turk teaching students the colcha stitch.

Robin

Carmella colcheando :)

I thought you all might enjoy these photos I took at a Resolana a couple weeks ago. Both SSL and SHL students (and their teachers!) had a lot of fun learning how to do the "colcha-stitch" from a knowledgeable and very patient nuevomexicana! Annette's family has been in NM for many generations - close to 20 if I remember correctly. We all started to get the hang of it by the end, but we didn't do a quarter of the work she had done. She dyes and prepares all of the wool she uses through a multiple step process that requires days and hours of labor. Thankfully, many of our students said they planned to go back home to their abuelitas and ask them to teach them more about this beautiful art form. The older generations need to pass it down to us younger folks otherwise, it will die out...