A many-parted day

Lovely Friday. Morning weaving showed me why it was going lopsided yesterday -- the left side yarn was too fine a gauge for the main yarns.  

So I'm weaving a few picks without clasping,  to straighten up, then when I reintroduce the green yarn, I'll double it and see how that works. Good piece of learning.

Then  came a pot of soup, the weather forecast being for cold and rainy all weekend.

Dandelion, leek and parsley soup, background, with added rotini, in the foreground.

I counteracted the bitterness, dandelions, you know,  by adding lemon juice, a spoonful of sugar and a nut of butter, with milk. The pasta also helps balance it. Some people like to blanch dandelion greens ahead of time for this reason.

This is spring tonic soup!

Then off to the library to pick up books

This one is just wonderful for all ages, highly recommend it. And to give to grandchildren. Or yourself.

And there's

This is the weaver you saw this week on Textiles and Tea. All about sustainable zero waste beautiful work, complete with great photography and projects.

Then on to the knitting group, where S is making this shawl in mohair and matching sweater yarn

While M is continuing with this year's temperature blanket in mitered squares with daily high and low temperatures recorded.

Great conversation as always, ranging from a new invention in the works from R, endlessly creative person, to Maryland Sheep and Wool festival this weekend, a destination for one of the group, with detours into grandchildren, children's school concerts, and other wonders.

Home again and baking the rest of the ANZAC biscuit batter,  plus a batch of cranberry walnut muffins. 

I used avocado oil this time, in the muffins, in place of olive oil, very good sub. I'll do that again.

Then I caught up with Franklin Habit's Letter from Paris, this time about a day trip to Cologne, to see the huge fabric and fiber fair. 

It's targeted to wholesalers, and he gave us a few insights into this year's trends. All photographs by Franklin Habit, likewise the insert explaining the event.

As you see, color and more color, oversized everything. He points out these are just large trends and we can pick and choose what we do about them!

So that's where Boud is today.  Ready to sit down with a cup of tea and a muffin and Midsomer Murders.

Happy day everyone, I've had an art packed day up to now.