Packed Tuesday, but first, cake

Here's the banana bread recipe, from the Sunset book, 1984, with food stains, notes, and afterthoughts 

The last one ought to be legible. I add in all kinds of whatever I have around. I often use walnuts, but some of this is going to a neighbor whose boy is allergic, so I omitted them.  Doneness test is the usual prod with a skewer, nothing special.

The Tuesday knitting group was very lively, with all kinds of convo and projects, knitting, stick weaving, spool knitting, a toad, a resistance hat, a  sweater, a shawl, socks, a band for a muff.

Terrible picture because we were both wobbly at this point, this being an overhaul for the beginning stick weaver 😉 not a beginning spinner --she spun and dyed that yarn,

The last three pictures are in case you're interested in how that knitted shawl happened.  The contrast color comes up at intervals and the knitter gets to be creative with it, so it looks like embroidery.

Convo ranged over art as therapy, language development, Noam Chomsky, splicing yarn,job seeking, nonbinary identity, pronouns, dyslexia, learning styles, PEI (yes, Marie!), and more. It was lighter than it sounds.

Home to a pot of tea, slice of pumpkin banana raisin bread and Textiles and Tea, with rigid heddle loom and inkle loom weaver, Gretchen Fancher 

 

Card weaving too, on the inkle loom 

And her 16 year old cat, Silver, on the sofa, photo bombing the session.  She, Gretchen, not Silver, is an inventive heddle loom weaver and teacher, who was originally a knitting designer who moved into the small portable loom world. You see the beautiful fabric she creates, mostly useful items.

Freecycling also happened today, with a bunch of spatulas, scarcely used because they're too heavy for my aged hands, so we'll see if they get into better hands.

Happy day everyone, feel free to rest after you've baked your banana bread. And I, the granddaughter of an Irish woman from Tipperary, forgot to wish you a happy St Patrick's Day! Oops