Cute winter boots, Tuesday knitting group, textiles and tea

First, please flood this email box, to throw sand in the gears of the effort to demolish the CFPB

Thank you. 

Then I made it to the Tuesday Knitting Group

One member demonstrating the tubular cast on to another. Each one teach one. We've lengthened the sessions to an hour and a half, much better for time to work and chat.

Chat ranged over Come From Away, teaching voice, native species of trees and flowers, the local virgin beech forest, knitting for special projects, lunar New Year celebration, UK laws against Catholic practice, choosing dolls for children of different ethnic groups and abilities, Korean grandchildren, Indian grandchildren, free cycle, Serviceberry, and more.

Then came a pot of tea at home, and Textiles and Tea with Robin Kang, an artist working in the intersection of digital design and hand weaving, using a TC2 jacquard loom. 

She warps a hundred-yard -- not a typo -- warp, once a year, takes a month to thread several hundred ends, and can create a year of output on that warp. Sometimes she does small pieces side by side, sometimes the whole 55" loom width.

She uses designs from technology and art nouveau, blending her tech past with the study she made in the rain forest,  of dyes and early weave structures.  She believes in the beauty of the glitch, sometimes by accident, sometimes purposeful. 

The pictures show her work and indicate how hand weaving is still required on the high tech TC2. Take a look! Also more on her website.

Glitches

Here's a montage of glitches, some intended, some not

Happy thing: as I was getting out of the car, home from the knitting group, a little brown poodle spotted me parking and dragged her human over to see me! Determined to make new friend, I guess. So I petted her and admired her, had a chat with her human, lovely brief encounter (!)

 Happy day, everyone, please send that email, and I hope you have happy encounters today.