First, please flood this email box, to throw sand in the gears of the effort to demolish the CFPB. Note there's a typo in the quote below, it's as I wrote, initials of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and thanks to Chris for spotting it. Not cfbp, the p and b got reversed.
Thank you. Wednesday am update: either we packed the mailbox or they've taken it offline to outsiders, because at this point no emails are getting through. Sand.
Then I made it to the Tuesday Knitting Group
One member demonstrating the tubular cast on to another. Each one teach one. We've lengthened the sessions to an hour and a half, much better for time to work and chat.
Chat ranged over Come From Away, teaching voice, native species of trees and flowers, the local virgin beech forest, knitting for special projects, lunar New Year celebration, UK laws against Catholic practice, choosing dolls for children of different ethnic groups and abilities, Korean grandchildren, Indian grandchildren, free cycle, Serviceberry, and more.
Then came a pot of tea at home, and Textiles and Tea with Robin Kang, an artist working in the intersection of digital design and hand weaving, using a TC2 jacquard loom.
She warps a hundred-yard -- not a typo -- warp, once a year, takes a month to thread several hundred ends, and can create a year of output on that warp. Sometimes she does small pieces side by side, sometimes the whole 55" loom width.
She uses designs from technology and art nouveau, blending her tech past with the study she made in the rain forest, of dyes and early weave structures. She believes in the beauty of the glitch, sometimes by accident, sometimes purposeful.
The pictures show her work and indicate how hand weaving is still required on the high tech TC2. Take a look! Also more on her website.
Happy day, everyone, please send that email, and I hope you have happy encounters today.
