Textiles and Tea, freecycle and chess

I missed Textiles and Tea at the usual Tuesday time because of Handsome Son's visit, so I caught up on another site yesterday, and here's Felicia Lo, dyer, knitter, spinner and weaver.

She loves color now, but didn't always. She was in competitive ballroom dancing for several years, and there learned to enjoy the vivid colors needed to catch the judge's eye and emphasize the dance moves. She's a trained pharmacist, too, multi talented. But she's most proud of having founded her school of textile arts.

A person after my own heart, she has little interest in weave structures, usually staying with plain tabby. Her interest is in the color changes from her hand dyed yarns. She has used KoolAid for dyeing, safe, nontoxic, I used to use it, too. Take a look. I've asked my library to buy her book.

She knits socks, but with a sock machine, needing production speed.  Aren't those saturated colors great? After watching her enthusiasm, I really wanted to get spinning and weaving again. 

She spun, dyed and knitted the sweater you see,  likes stitch patterns in knitting, though not in weaving.  She taught herself to knit very young, finishing UFOs for an older relative, using the diagrams that came with the yarn, such a self starter. 

The host Kathie was wearing a similar color sweater, as you see. There must have been a memo. Now I need to get my sock finished and the wall hanging, and get back to spinning and weaving. That skirt won't make itself.

I took care of Handsome Son's box of stuff, some good ingredients are now in my kitchen, some things tossed, a collection of incense sticks free cycled.

This group was picked up about an hour after I posted it.

And the puzzle answer, if you have an alternate, please say, is

VIEWPOINT

We need a little something in our crusade to smash the patriarchy, so here's a little something

Happy day, everyone, I'm knitting on with a background of J. Draper, London historian, on YouTube. 

Great researcher, and very entertaining. I'd say required watching for Londoners interested in the historic nooks and crannies of the city, as well as for anyone wanting insights into various bits of European history, etymology, paleontology, politics, clothing, wars, you name it. All in short digestible form.

Speaking of history and the terrible events unfolding in Gaza, a word about Jewish people being targeted there and elsewhere for being who they are. That's just as wrong as discrimination against Palestinians for being who they are. Everyone is valuable and to be respected.  My list of support flags is growing.