I got a pony! I got a pony! And other excitements

Yesterday a box arrived with beautiful yarn, Texan candy (nuts and caramel in milk chocolate), and, drumroll -- a pony!

I can't wait to use the yarn, beautiful stuff, silk/merino, cotton, self striping and much more. The candy has already been thoroughly tested.

Thank you so much, dear Texan blogista R!

And Pony, who needs a name, please, has already done her first photo shoot.

Ready to help take a donation to the food pantry.

This gift box enabled me to Freecycle a bag of handspun, single skeins and balls in various colors, with an instant crowd of requesters. 

Then Tuesday Knitting Group was fun, all the usual suspects and a nice couple of new people, the wife adept at crochet and the husband learning, in order to have a shared interest with her. 

They're Korean, unew here, and still dealing with the English language. He works doing engineering research here, on secondment from his home Korean University.  But they coped pretty much, made a hit, and we hope they'll become regulars.

♥️ Red resistance hats under way, destined for family and friends 

Here's a demo of one of the splices D learned at a recent class 

And Toad's bathing suit is coming along 

A top down sweater being rethought 

Another resistance hat, using hand dyed yarn, the knitter wearing her handmade jacket

Someone did some shopping at the event where she studied splicing

 

Here's her latest lacy shawl in progress, graduating light to dark.

Talk ranged over snow, ice, Korean food, children's language, Paris, Brittany, the high Pyrenees, Francoise Sagan, kimchi, resistance hats, pussy hats, yarn gifts, Indian and Burmese (Myanmar) independence, and more.

Home to tea, banana bread, Texan candy and Textiles and Tea, with Teresa Georgallis,  a high end low key production weaver and teacher currently based in Cyprus.  She grew up and studied in the UK, getting a number of degrees there.

She specializes in subtle designs and colors, some she dyes with local mud. There's a range of pigments naturally occurring in the mud, including copper -- hence the name of the island of Cyprus.  She usually uses cotton, contrasting mercerized glossy cotton with the more matt nonmercerized.

Her life and business partner is a potter, also using local clay. They've traveled to several countries to highlight artisan work from there and exhibit it in Nicosia.

Mud dyed yarns hanging on the wall behind her

She teamed with leather workers to create these bags

She has designed and built a four harness collapsible loom, formerly distributed by Harris, no longer, and now created and distributed anew, using laser cutting and 3D printing. It can be folded down completely, warp still in place, a great inventive feat.

These are high end shirts she designed, hand woven in India.

She's a teacher, too and has used her loom to introduce kids as young as seven, all the way to adults, to principles of weaving. She emphasizes to kids how similar computer programming is to weaving, which gets their interest quickly, the binary principle easy to grasp.

Happy day, everyone! I had my usual Beautiful Tuesday. And the temperature was all the way up into the thirties f.

And in today's resistance I messaged my state legs. to resist the ICE attempts to buy NJ warehouse space for concentration camps. Sent a donation to Minneapolis to support daily help with food and diapers for house bound residents. 

Greetings from Ted, Big Ursy and Pony