Knitting group, Textiles and Tea, and photo ID

The inspection happened, to my astonishment at 9 am! The window being 8:30 - 3:00. I was over at the condo early, eyes half open, I don't do mornings very well, brief chat with handsome son as he left for work, and before I got organized, the inspector came, very nice guy, checked the bracket elbows or whatever, said wow, they even polished them, slapped on two approved stickers and left.

This gave me back my day, so I loafed then lunched then made it to the knitting group, yay.

Here's some of the output

This scarf M spun from rare breed roving, then knitted

And here's an almost finished shawl

Some Tunisian crochet, in progress and a finished piece

Chat ranged over teaching music to adults, rare breed yarn, learning languages, lace knitting, craft material exchanges, Portugal, Indian embroidery, gold thread, and color theory.

Home to a great episode of Textiles and Tea, with a scholar in classical history who's a textile artist, has raised her own angora rabbits to spin their fur, crochets, knits, weaves, and is one of the wisest teachers I ever heard. 

She uses fiber arts for healing and joining people together, and is an amazing person, happy and honest and brilliant. One of my pictures is a screenshot of chat where her books and others are listed, in case you want to know more

She's worth learning more about.

Happy day, everyone, and hasn't this happened to some of us?

Great ticket, not so great inspection, and other vital things

 Here's a great ticket, checks all my boxes

He's a good man, will support, not compete with, her, it doesn't take anyone out of Congress, and his lieutenant Gov, Peggy Flanagan, who will preside in his campaign absence, is the first native American woman to do so. Many wins.

The inspection, not so much. Electrical failed, something needs torquing (!) and plumbing passed. Two separate inspectors. Plumber said electric was too picky. I know electric always likes to find something.

So, remediation needed, another appointment, then a reinspection, another appointment. Call to plumber, email to building dept. This too shall pass.

I didn't make it to Tuesday knitting, storms in NJ, but Textiles and Tea was on, despite the presenter in Illinois losing power and WiFi, storms, and returning gamely, ending up on her phone! 

She's a former competitive swimmer, used to overcoming! And she's a painter turned weaver who paints her warps and finds a lot of parallels between painting, swimming and weaving. As you'll see

these are watercolor studies for upcoming works

24 foot hand painted warp! She loves large works, being 6'2" herself, they feel right.

This bottom piece, detail shown above,  is 23' across. She cut the wave shapes and is still deciding what to do with the part she cut off.  Look at her energy and color! Her work is dynamic.

And this humble weaver has come away, yet again, with an idea I'd like to try, a small tapestry though. I fancy painting the warp, and have a general notion of the design.  Textiles and Tea never fails.

And while I was writing, this happened

Complete with voiceover.

I hadn't planned on going anywhere, just as well. Happy day everyone, stay safe!