Elderhood, Tuesday Knitting Group, Textiles and Tea

Current reading is the fascinating 

About aging and the medical profession, it's about getting up to date on the facts of aging rather than the assumptions. It's very readable and with plenty of planning ideas as you notice physician and patient interaction.  

My own doctor is careful not to attribute to age alone any new symptom. She may be unusual in that.

 Before anything else today, please contact all your MOCs to demand they put the brakes on the madman in the white house, lower case while he's in office. They must support the military in refusing illegal orders.

And on immigrant rights, there's a proposal to reduce the deportation appeal period to a clearly impossible 12 days. Please go to Chop Wood Carry Water and use the links Jess provides to make your wishes known, on both issues. Thank you.

Meanwhile an interlude of friendship and civilization, with the Tuesday Needlearts Group.

Here's a familiar WIP 

A camisole in progress, blurry image, wobbly hand

 

This is a marvelous cardigan design of four rows mohair, four rows fine wool

The baby blanket in progress

Toad has a body!

Here's a spiral sock in progress, using the knitter's handspun yarn.

Much laughter, and sharing of projects and advice,much of it conflicting (!) and the book above which I've requested my library to acquire.

And here's great new library program 

Talk ranged over everything except the news, since everyone needed a respite. It includes travel, Malta, sweet woodruff, cotton seeds, which I shared around for planting, aging, taxes, Easter hunts, high school reunions, tatting, health, auto shows, crime fiction and more. 

Textiles and Tea presented 

He's an innovative weaver in many weaving patterns and approaches, ikat where he dyes both warp and weft, waffle weave, wet felting, paper weaving, framing, dyeing. He exhibits, sells and carries out commissions. He's also a full-time middle school art teacher lucky kids. 

Here's his home studio, from which he was speaking today 

 

And a wet felting project his students made

Above commissioned pieces in a restaurant, below massive ceiling panels woven in cotton 

Here's adventurous weave patterns 

Ikat, where he paints both warp and weft in a freewheeling style 

Definitely an art teacher everyone should have!  Check his website.

Happy day everyone, I certainly had one,, complete with a Gary irruption wanting advice on a new hoodie with a transfer image which separated from the fabric when he tried it on. I undertook to stitch it.