Not much heart for art today

But, one foot in front of the other.

Yesterday's Textiles and Tea was great. He's a multi talented artist, former dancer currently teaching at Vanderbilt 

His shibori dyeing using indigo is virtuoso work, depicting dancers in movement. And he throws clay vessels and beads them. And weaves tapestry including a tapestry diary seen here. And occasionally makes a political statement as you see at the end.

He's a personally engaging man, one you hope to see again. I'm very glad I checked in.

And here's what we need to see today after the terrible news yesterday from Texas.

Closer to home, my own textile art got me through the day.

Here's my not-brioche stitch, made a variation I like better, and I did succeed in transferring the cuff to three needles to make the heel. The open area you see is now stitched closed.

So this experiment worked fine and opens the door to yet more fancy ideas. 

About the brioche, I noticed that I'd departed from the classic stitch by accident, liked the accident enough to go with it, and I've no idea if it has a name, but I need to make a note of how I did it, so as to do it again.

It's like in drawing, there's a point at which the drawing takes over from the subject, and you go there. You don't rigidly insist on your first idea if it's overtaken by a better one.

I'll still do brioche on another pair of socks, but for now I'm just very pleased with this byway that became the highway. And thankful to it in a day of tragedy.

And to AC for the photograph which has become a talisman around here.