Great Tuesday! Friends, fun, fiber.

 I really love my Tuesdays. Today started with a routine doctor visit telling me I'm fine, and she thinks she's straightened out my online pharmacy's inability to grasp that I take two different strengths of one medication. 

It adds up to the correct dosage, but they've been repeatedly deleting one in favor of the other, forcing me to split pills to create the dosage while I fight with them. My doctor tells me she had to attest that yes, I needed both together, definitely, before they conceded.

Then Gary returned the gardening scissors vital to my needs, my hands not being strong enough to open regular handheld clippers with one hand. He apologised profusely, been searching for weeks finally unearthed them. I'm so happy to be functional again.

Very nice lunch of fettuccini Alfredo with plums for dessert, then off to the Tuesday Knitting Group, total kindred spirits.

One friend  brought a box of bobbins of silk thread and tiny treasures from her grandmother's stash, such fun to play with! Even the Schraffts chocolate box she'd kept them in is iconic.

Chat ranged from spindle spinning, darning, Opera supertitles, Portugal, an imaginary university, millinery, sheep and wool festivals and more. 

You know you're with friends when you all suddenly decide to create an imaginary university, with a double major in Dance and Darning, a Spurtzleur Department, a Classical Ballet with Embroidery degree, Opera training, and plans of what the buildings will be like. Grounded in reality, since two of our members were professional dancers, one an opera singer and voice coach. I'll be the Spurtzleur Professor of Spinning.

Then home to more fun, with Textiles and Tea, featuring Andrea Alexander, a wonderful, energetic weaver, textile designer and former Marine biologist. I have to find her channel on YouTube, for more. 

She did an internship, while an undergraduate at FIT, in NYC, at Fabscrap, a nonprofit dedicated to saving designer fabric scraps from the landfill, and was a presenter at this year's national handweavers HGA convention, Convergence.

Here's a garment she made from scraps foraged from her internship, a sample book of fibers. She used a heddle loom and clasped wefts, to create this wearable artwork.

Here are computer designs, also using Photoshop in planning the weaving

She adapted images from her Marine biology fish textbook for this design.

And here's a sample of fabric design woven ready to use. She's definitely worth seeing more of.

I've already signed up for the Fabscrap newsletter,  what a source for high end scraps! 

You can shop online with them for mendable clothing, bags of scraps, all kinds of cool fabric stuff. This may be a rabbit hole of biblical proportions.

Now for tea and a read of Pride and Prejudice. 

This was a vintage Tuesday.

Happy day everyone, be safe if you're in Florida, please. Dry out if you're in the UK under water. Or keep rowing, as the case may be.