Tuesday Knitting Group, Textiles and Tea, Roxie Fricton

Tuesday was about waking early, still dark, early breakfast, some weaving,

Near the end of the potholder pocket.

Then a nap. No need to get carried away. The luxury of being older is being able to get up as early as you like, knowing you can sleep in the day if you need to.

The knitting group was the core members, with new projects and old.

This is double knitting, such a talented knitter, just learned the technique, now working like a veteran.

Foreground a glove in progress from yarn she spun and dyed, background a piece of cotton fabric being hemmed as a table napkin.

I started a glove and forgot a picture till I got home. 

Home to Textiles and Tea with Roxie Fricton, a young weaver still in graduate school but already doing public large scale projects.

Here's A large piece which she wove in patterns resembling the texture of the original building it's based on and displayed in. She dyed the fiber with magnolia buds to acknowledge the magnolia tree by the entrance.

She's from Appalachian family background and is interested in honoring their Scottish-origin coverlet tradition of overshot weaving,  while making her own ideas count. 

She works in cotton, in various weave pattern on a four harness loom.

This is painted warp style portrait work, left Vita Sackville West, right her sometime lover, Virginia Woolf. 

Here's overshot gone wild! Many optical illusions and mixes of color.

This is overshot to resemble wallpaper torn  onback and revealing the underlayer.

She's a lively and very analytical researcher and weaver, still very young and with a bright future.

Happy day everyone, join me in celebrating young people showing us the fiberarts are in good hands