Multi celebration day to you! And other things happening

 Today's Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Ramadan.

I'm an earth tiger. I wonder how they get along with fire horses. I checked out Handsome Partner's sign, water monkey, and found it's not supposed to be compatible with any tiger sign. Hm.

And I finished the scarf. I really like it. Because its a soft yarn, it feels very good, too. Sometimes you get a surprise when a yarn that feels good in your hands is scratchy on your neck.

Closer so you can see the shape better.

Yesterday also involved food, the soupe du jour being cream of red lentil and sweet potato. And enough for several more meals.

This used up the lentils left over from the tofu earlier. Sprig of fresh peppermint. I'm surprised how well the peppermint is doing in the kitchen. I'd expected it to wither.

Then today eating all the colors

Toast with butter and garlic paste, same old soup,  pureed pumpkin with blueberries and honey. Getting up my strength for Tuesday Knitting Group.

Modeling a newly knitted vest from yarn she spun.

Same knitter with Resistance Hat

Our new members, a married couple crocheting together.

A muff in progress.

Various projects lying around and Toad's bathing suit in progress.

Accomplished crochet by the earlier crocheter

Lovely shawl soon to go to a relative, while her neighbor considers a new color contrast.

Lovely lively time, with a lot of laughing and talk ranging over pets, cats hunting, smart dogs, animal rescue, music, parking, knitting classes, houses, Goodwill, German porcelain, guard dogs, FedEx, and more.

Home again in time for Textiles and Tea, and kente cloth and 

He inherited from his father a large weaving company in Ghana. The first president after Ghana got independence in 1957, Kwame Nkruma, often wore the traditional kente cloth of the region. He commissioned it from Kwasi's father, because of the cultural significance of the fabric.

It's woven in cotton and silk in strips on narrow looms, nowadays, wider ones are in use, joined into the finished yardage.

Here's a giant piece commissioned for the UN building in New York, with the UN insignia embroidered on. The group picture shows officials in front of it, showing its size and importance. He wove this in three months with a team of weavers.  His father had made one earlier and both are now in the UN archives.

Here's a traveling loom he likes to use. This makes me want to weave immediately.

Left, traditional design, right, his own design.

Here he is at his home loom, all handmade. He explained that kente cloth has deep cultural and traditional significance, including colors, some kinds such as Ashanti, preferring neutral and earth tones and others like his, the brighter colors, from which the Ghanaian flag is derived.

Full Tuesday again, though next Tuesday a doctor's appointment will cut in to both the group and T and T. 

Happy day everyone, let's all do our bit.  Baby Juan was treated for bronchitis, but returned to the Dilley concentration camp. At least he's in the medical unit now, and let's hope there's medical care. I've now written to all my reps insisting they push for the release of all children from every ICE camp and to hold fast on no further funding for ICE till our demands are met, not just promised.