Tuesday, October 1, 2024

House cleaning, postcards, Knitting Group, Textiles and Tea

This morning was about getting out from under the cleaning family's feet. So I went and voted, using the municipal dropbox, yayyy, go Kamala and Tim! 

Then I thought the world was quiet this morning and realized Ruth and Laura were still home on the charger, so I went back and got them in action.

Back out again, sound restored, to the library, to finish the postcards, watch the window cleaners working, from the ground, on the third  floor windows


and the local artists guild hanging their fall exhibit, and I fixed a public jigsaw puzzle that had been maybe played with by a little person. Then I got back into Oliver Twist, who's proving to be a lot more entertaining than I expected.

Home again, lunch, then out to Tuesday Knitting Group, no pictures, nothing new to show you. But we talked about animals, petcare, rescues, hospice, fear of death, insurance for nonprofits, more cheerful than this sounds!

home yet again, it's all go, for Textiles and Tea, with











She's a textile designer for mass consumption, as well as having art interest, using looms from the tiny Hello to a 16-harness one. 

She's studied a range of fibers, animal and plant, and of dyes, natural and synthetic. She's getting into tapestry weaving on  Mirrix looms, and makes journal entries to note natural scenes and colors for reference. She also tries found object weaving, for possible design ideas. 

In fact, watching her  suggests all kinds of cool ideas for weaving..just when you'd left the last rabbit hole!

This evening may be an online watch party with friends of the Walz-Vance debacle, I mean debate.

Then I plan to take the rest of the day off.

Happy day, everyone, resting is overrated.



8 comments:

  1. I have twice tried to read Oliver Twist, and twice failed. For whatever reason, I just can NOT get into it!

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    1. It's a bit episodic. Not surprising, considering how it was first published.

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  2. I can see how Kristin Crane would be an inspiration. I enjoyed Oliver Twist even more the second time in recent years than I did when I was in high school.

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  3. Imaginative weaving. I like her tapestry scenes, and impressed with the ideas and swatches with various different fibres. I wonder if the 'debacle' will be reported over here.

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    1. I really liked her sampling, and fancy trying it.

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  4. Dickens' stories are entertaining and imaginative, once they have been arranged for theatre or film, but I cannot read him. The dialect irritates me and doesn't add anything to the narrative.
    I grew up in Dickens country - couldn't move for yet more reminders of the man.

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  5. Oliver twist takes place in various locations. What's Dickens country?

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