The day after, daffodils midseason, Tuesday knitters, Textiles and Tea

In case you're wondering, since the next eclipse is a long way off, what to do with the glasses?

Mine are in the mail, before I forget.

And in case anyone says internet friends are only imaginary

Some of the best friendships I've had are either totally online or started that way. I've met quite a few online friends and been happy to find they're just as nice as expected, since, over years, people do reveal who they are. 

They may not look as you expect unless they've been putting up pictures, though that wasn't a thing in the mid-nineties when I first became active online. Then you had to describe yourself, and your outfit, before a meeting. Nowadays I bet I could spot quite a few blogistas in person.  And then the convention was to report on the event! 

This is the best year in many for daffodils, look, mid season form in my front yard

And I often think this would be a good way to live!

I could make a start on that rug with these

I think the reason you keep going with the pinloom is that when you take a weaving off, there's no finishing to be done. Just the empty loom needing to be filled again. So, as you see, you do :). Ye olde worlde 90s emoticonne.

Today's knitting group was small and very good chat. Here's D's current top down sweater 

The red is warmer and darker, very saturated color. We chatted about eclipses, Mt St Helen's, earthquakes, lightning strikes, meteorites, hearing, teaching adults art, Youth Art Month, voice training and squillo.

Home again, and Textiles and Tea featured, joy, a spinner! Patsy Zawistoski  lifelong sewer, designer, from a family of skilled people in many trades, brilliant spinner.

She's an expert in spinning many fibers, some of which I didn't know, such as optim from Australia, and the ins and outs of bamboo, rayon from bamboo, tencel and more. She's aware of  ecological impact of fibers, uses natural dyes and makes wonderful yarns.

This tapestry, using up fiber she'd spun for an HGA credential, is about 3' h by 2' w.

Here she is as a teen modeling her creation

Here are the range of fibers she had to weave to get Hand weavers Guild of America Level One Excellence in Spinning

And Level Two required the fibers be woven into garments as seen here

She made instructional  video cassettes long before Zoom

And has written about newly developed fibers

This is her Fiber Decoder Kit! You take the yarn apart bit by bit, to get all the way back to the original fiber, to become knowledgeable about it. Great idea.

She answered my question about spindle spinning very respectfully. A lot of wheel spinners dismiss it as only the entry to wheel spinning, but she has done, and respects, both. 

She made the point that the wheel is faster by the hour, the spindle faster by the week. Meaning it's so portable you can get a lot done in small amounts of available time and place. 

Her website is worth a visit.

Happy day, everyone, spin your own way!