ArtShaped artwork, gloves , Freecycle, Textiles and Tea, Women's Day

Home from the rheumo, and the second of the twice yearly osteo injections. She assured me I was wonderfully healthy, blood panel beautiful (?). Doctors have a weird idea of beauty.

 She said it was probably the free weight practice I started at age 60 that's the reason I have no joint pain at all. So I guess it paid off. I still have osteo-level scan numbers in my hip, though, hence the injections.  

I did winnowing yesterday, among  the art materials. Here's the Freecycle offering probably to be picked up today 

Artworks who need a new home.

Here's what went into recycle, foam core 

And in the course of pawing through the crate, I found a couple of ancient artworks that might make a good eventual plinth for the work in progress.

Speaking of works in progress, here's the lovely new gloves which have hardly been off my hands since I finished the second one yesterday

 

I'm dying for a pair of socks in this lovely yarn. It really makes a person look like a good knitter.  But I cast on the toe of the second sock I was making for the Sock and Glove Ministry,  to make sure that pair gets finished.

I was working on this while I watched yesterday's Textiles and Tea, a rather low-key presentation by Liz Spear, a weaver who designs and weaves clothing, also makes nuno felt. 

There were few slides and almost no discussion of the nuno felting process which would have been interesting. I'm familiar with it - fine  roving embedded into a silk base by friction, to create high end fabric.

However, here's the slides I caught, showing collaborative works.

The white coat has panels of woven paper along with the rest of the, I think wool, weaving. The wearer made the paper panels.

That's Liz on the left, a sought after teacher in the weaving world.

On the subject of more information, a couple of people are interesting in making the gloves, and here's a screenshot of information including how to get the free pattern, which I hope is still available. My own Xerox copy is so marked up with notes

that it's illegible to anyone but me.

And, more works in progress, the work on the figure is moving along. The head is now complete except it will be painted, so the present color is irrelevant.

It's sitting nicely on the neck, my main concern at this point.  Next I have to gather materials for the torso, and I have some ideas about that.

And I can just stop working long enough to pay tribute to all women on International Women's Day. I hope I live long enough to see the value of women be so obvious it doesn't need a special day, one whole day a year ..

Meanwhile, celebrate ourselves, sisters!

And yes, that does include trans sisters.

Happy day everyone, we matter!