Tiny bouquet, warping and Textiles and Tea

Yesterday I found carpets of violets, chickweed and henbit everywhere I was walking, so a few flowers came home with me

Short lived but lovely. Sitting on an antique piece of crochet I acquired with a lot of other pieces on Freecycle years ago.

And I set up the next scarf, this one for me, handwash wool. I used a long knitted scarf to measure the warp length. Much longer than the first, where various mishaps shortened the warp threads as I went.

This is half the threads threaded onto the heddle, the warp being strung between the post on the windowsill and the pasta machine clamp on a heavy chair. The color is Forest.

In the afternoon, ready for Textiles and Tea with Maria Sigma, I baked ANZAC biscuits (cookies in north America)

A couple of them went next door to Gary along with a rapid lesson on the significance, and he'd never heard of any of it, so now he knows.

Then I was ready for t and t

with this young Greek weaver, who moved from Athens to London to continue her textile education. She's devoted to sustainable materials and methods, natural colors and a minimum of loom waste.

She's in galleries in New York, London and Athens and works mainly on commission. She's also written two books, one of them for children. Take a look

The piece shown above the books has touches of silk, but she uses mainly wool and cotton, and avoids loom waste wherever she can, or finds ways to recycle and reuse it. A very modern outlook. She's also an engaging personality. 

When the interviewer asked her about her favorite tea, the usual icebreaker, because "you're in London, you must drink tea" she burst out laughing and said "But I'm Greek, so, not so much!"

And yesterday I came across this

Thought you'd like it.

Happy day everyone, I'm off to thread my heddle. Literally. No double meaning there.. just keeping my heddle happy..