Textiles and Tea, Tuesday knitting group

 Today's T and T was about this weaver, teacher, historic reenactor with emphasis on demo'ing early fiber arts.

This pouch, woven and assembled by his wife, was carried by a soldier into the Battle of Bull Run, and survived pretty well, to become a study focus for textile historians, including Penny.

She also studies and teaches about the whole path, sheep to wearer, of textiles.

This is a gamp, a kind of sampling of warps, wefts and proportions

And here's knitting, using her own spun yarn, the famous Hitchhiker shawl a lot of people have knitted, but not with yarn they spun rainbow style. She's wearing it in the thumbnail

Here are functional pieces, demonstrating weaving and color patterns

Interesting lady, who seems totally versatile, up for learning anything, and planning on learning next how to use the Viking vertical loom, the one where the warp threads are tensioned with rocks. It's a general Paleolithic loom. You can see Sally Pointer building one and showing it in use, on her YouTube channel.

But first there was the Tuesday knitting group with these 

amigurumi pugs! The cow in the background will be accompanying G, the crocheter, to football games as a mascot! Cowgurumi.

And this truly elegant, perfectly fitted sweater is modeled by D. who knitted it, in a beautiful blue green Malabrigo mixture color, which doesn't show up here at all.

but look at the detail -- that cabling, the roll collar, and the shoulder which you can't see, is carefully shaped, knitting top down, with grafting and other clever techniques. This is the knitter of the double knitting you saw recently. Spectacular skills all around today.

Definitely worth coming out in the rain for. 

The evening I spent at a live interactive online event on a Spoutible pod, discussing Super Tuesday, with several hundred participants. Some results came in during the discussion, including the re-election of Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas, yay!  And Haley won a second primary. There's talk of her voters going Biden rather than T***p in the general, but that might be wishful thinking. There's also talk of gop voters staying away altogether if they don't want T as their candidate. We'll see, like so many other things!

Since tomorrow Handsome Son is visiting, I made that chocolate cake I make, and a couple of pieces went next door to Gary, who seemed a bit down about his current painting job, and I thought there's a PINOCC. Person in need of Chocolate Cake.

Lab work this morning, bi annual, nbd.

Happy day, everyone, I'm investigating tapestry crochet, which turns out to be a kind of crocheted entrelac. I'm sure that's perfectly clear to non fiber folk! It reminds me of asking a wonderful cook friend what was pancetta. She said, oh, you know, it's like lardon! Very clear, yes.

Don't get blinded by science and posh terms! But do keep up your reading knowledge. Here's a handy guide

Photo AC