Judie Overbeek is a Montana spinner, weaver and dyer. She began weaving over 35 years ago with a two-harness table loom and an armful of acrylic yarns.She began spinning about four years later in Australia while living there for two years. The women in the local guild taught her to spin and showered her with merino wool. After returning to Montana in 1977, she joined Alpine Weavers and Spinners at Big Fork and has been a member ever since, enjoying the benefits of connection with talented and committed people locally and throughout the Northwest. Judith MacKenzie has been her spinning mentor.A love of process and a deep desire to share her skills keeps her involved in these inexhaustible crafts both as student and teacher. Her “day job” is elementary reading specialist and she teaches spinning, weaving and dyeing throughout the Northwest in her “spare” time.