Latest reading
New to me, this writer, whom I heard and liked on the Shedunnit podcast talking about clues. This thriller has a woman main character, the wealthy daughter of a deceased and feared judge, who has an interest in crime detection. I'll let you know how it goes.
Then the Tuesday knitting group met, the core four today, now that school's in session and people's summer free time is done.
One member took pictures of the stick weaving pages from Weaving without a Loom, and may get her husband to make weaving sticks for her. Meanwhile she took some straws to try that method, too.
Mainly knitting today though, headband, shawlette, sweater, socks. Convo ranged over houseplants including a lemon tree, bringing plants indoors, travel, music sing-alongs, cremation, body donation, trees and plants as memorials, teaching, tests, jobs, the arts as problem solving skills, chess, marriage, weddings, and more.
Home to a pot of tea and honey toast, to accompany Textiles and Tea with Kyle McKeown Mansfield, jewelry maker and tapestry weaver.
Her tapestries are small, a few inches each way, but the designs are powerful enough to make them seem large. You see her here holding one.
She loves color and is from a family of artists, so even though she has a degree in business, she gravitated to a life in art, and has sold her jewelry and accessories as well as exhibiting her tapestries. Up to now she's worked on a small scale, but is planning to weave bigger.
Happy day, everyone, dream big, weave big, be big!
Wednesday is the scheduled visit from the heat pump people, who will definitely make big inroads on my budget.
Resistance: this latest Banksy work, anonymous street artist in the UK, on the side of courthouse has been ordered scrubbed. But the internet is forever, and art that upsets powerful people is powerful. Let's make it go viral.
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