Stretching, dancing, stitching, chatting then T and T

What with allergies and sneezing and tiredness from the remedies, walking was a bit off Tuesday, so I did a stretching video.  This included a few qi gong moves.

And here's kitty Mochi, photobombing. Or maybe directing. Cats know stretching.

Then laundry, dishes, chop wood carry water, make penne for lunch with red sauce, tomatoes, onions, butter, tomato paste, red pepper seeds, Parmesan grated over. No pictures, you've seen pasta before. Blueberries and yogurt for dessert.

Then off to the library to return The Imitation Game, very good, especially once I'd grasped that Keeley Hawes and Keira Knightley are two different people and this one was Knightley. I have face blindness, often can't tell one actor, or friend, from another. I did think Hawes had had an injection of intensity. 

Tuesday's knitting group was crocheters, knitters and me, stitching linen squares with vague notions of fusion quilting. I'm thinking of parallel rows of linen and woven squares.  

Notice my kantha stitched purse, gift of an Indian friend

Moms and daughters learning together. The member who teaches on request was away, so the rest of us helped as possible.  

But we had to explain yet again to yet more people that this an adult meeting,  not a class where children can learn. Every week a couple of parents try to drop off kids and leave. 

Our lovely leader, with her box of instructions and supplies. I asked her to consider a class for kids so we can refer parents. She's going to do it.

Here's my linen square collection; it's lovely,  stitching linen.

Talk ranged over James Talarico, nonbinary people, in-laws, weddings, Diaper Diplomacy,  learning violin, tai chi, the shakuhachi effect, knitting, native trees and shrubs, invasives, bees, kantha quilting and more.

And, as usual in this group, I got more ideas. I'm now thinking of tracing one of my line drawings onto some fine fabric and stitching it.  Maybe goldwork. Just what I needed, another idea. I've done this before in blackwork.   I think I'll revisit continental knitting too, to save my hands, while I'm having more ideas.

Then home to Textiles and Tea with 

Artist, weaver, activist, community organizer of women's voices and history, a powerhouse of a woman, who has woven great works, organized mass exhibits of women's woven stories, written a book on spiritual growth, and works now in silk, dyeing, weaving and stitching.

The blue work on the right is stick weaving. I've taught this, and shown you some of my work in an earlier post. She used drinking straws as a handheld  loom, and wove over and under them, gradually advancing the strip to create a weft faced fabric. This work used dozens of strips to create a waterfall effect.

Here's a collaborative work on its way to be exhibited. It's enormous, the work of hundreds of participants weaving strips about their lives and stories.

She's an amazing woman, check her website for more.

Before setting up the second Brideshead disc, I compensated for not being up to an evening walk by dancing to Dancing Queen, on e's blog. Thank you, e, that was a cheerful workout. I always want to dance to it. Not a wonderful dancer, more in the Elaine category, but who's watching. 

Happy day everyone, dance it however you can, even with your fingers dancing on the table. It counts.