Early evening
Textiles and Tea yesterday featured a weaver who helped found a fiber arts center in North Carolina, and teaches there more than she makes her own work, so the pictures are sparse, but she's an engaging person, like most textile people I've met.
The Turkish coat in the illustration is her own next thing to make.
She loves shuttles and has written about them. Makes me think about upgrading from my simple shuttles.
Back home I amused myself with this composition, showing the photographer wearing her hand stitched skirt, reflection, with a bit of the current stitching, bottom left, and the knitting to date. The stitch markers indicate I've started to shape the thumb. This yarn has very good stitch definition, as you see from the ribbing.
The Haggard Hawks puzzle answer is
OPINION
which is why I said it was very suitable for this (opinionated) blog.
Happy day, everyone, off for lab work this morning, before it gets too hot. One bonus about the return of the heat is that it extends the time I'm able to wear my favorite robe, the one I made from a sheet, before it goes away till the next hot weather.
Enjoy whatever the weather permits, and keep warm or cool, both hemispheres, this is an inclusive blog!
Speaking of Ukraine, which I have done almost daily since the invasion, here's a bit of resistance we can all get behind. I'm not reducing this one as I usually do, but enlarging it to make the point.
Your blocks are all looking great! Slava Ukraini
ReplyDeleteI'm eager to share this map because it resists a serious disinformation move by Russia,to enforce a fake map of Ukraine showing parts as Russian territory. This one's the correct version.
DeleteLove the blocks and how the mitt is shaping up. Great colour.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite pleased up to now.
DeleteIt struck me that if you ever wanted to do another wall hanging in a similar style, you could do an underwater one. So many shapes and colors would work in that.
ReplyDeleteTrue, there are many resemblances. Like fungi and shells.
Deletethe wall hanging is coming along nicely. only 86 here currently at 9:30 AM but will reach 100.
ReplyDeleteOur heat is supposed to moderate by weekend. I wish yours would, too.
DeleteAnother wonderful weaver - I like her style very much.
ReplyDeleteIt's hot here too (currently 29C at noon) and it seems we're breaking all sorts of records. Supposed to cool off in the next day or two to something more seasonal.
She's also a very cheerful person, up for anything!
DeleteUgh! That's hot! So glad you can stay indoors and hopefully stay comfortable while weaving and knitting.
ReplyDeleteYes, after this morning's appointment, I can stay home.
DeleteBloody hell thats hot
ReplyDeleteMy feelings exactly.
DeleteIs it a dry heat or a humid heat? Either way it's too hot for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is NJ. We don't know what dry heat is! Usually in 60-70% humidity range. Too hot, too! The most important part of AC is the extraction of humidity. Fans don't work well.
DeleteI love the little blocks; so many stitching techniques.
ReplyDeleteThank you. There's a lot of scope in these little works.
DeleteIt 'feels like' our heat wave is over. I wonder if that will be that last one.
ReplyDeleteI've wondered that about the last couple of them!
DeleteWould love to see the finished Turkish coat - the drawing alone is fantastic. Ukraine is a big country no? I understand it has been fought over for centuries - didn't have a monarchy (or inherited leadrship role) but a kind of elected head of barons instead which made it and its rich agricultural resources vulnerable to avaricious neighbours (both sides). I wish them a lasting peace and much prosperity when this chapter is finally closed.
ReplyDeleteThe drawing was done by a specialist illustrator for that pattern collection, not this weaver. I love the way it swirls! Very Eastern fairytale.
DeleteI agree that Ukraine has had a complex history, and this isn't their first rodeo. But it's the first since it declared independence and had its borders accepted by other powers. And they're fighting NATO's proxy war with Russia.