Winter is icumen in, and Car Talk

This was yesterday morning, first snow of the season. My walk later was brisk, icy wind, happy to get home and warm.

Today's in the thirties, tops. Oh. 

And here's my latest podcast find. I used to love NPR's Click and Clack, long gone now,  and found out yesterday that there's a podcast to accompany my knitting.

This and The Daily Fail, and How to be Fine will complete my podcast requirements.

And here's yesterday's Textiles and Tea with a rugweaver who loves upcycling old cotton and linen fabrics. He's a beloved teacher, judging from the masses of wishes and memories in the comments, working in the building you see below. He's also written several well loved books.

It was a cheerful episode, and he's clearly a good teacher, refraining from the thicket of technicalities many guests plunge into. They assume they're speaking to experts, and forget that it's intimidating to the eager beginners in the audience to blind them with terminology, and might put them off completely. 

He didn't do this, translating weaverspeak into everyday language as he went. He's also a spinner, and promised to come back and talk about that, since it never got into this session.

Happy day, everyone, weave on, spin on, knit on! Metaphorically for most of us.