I finished my “Chocolate Sensations” batt last week. It’s still sitting on the spindle where I can admire just how much fiber I crammed onto the spindle:
I’m not sure I’m a fan of the fire-star. It was annoying to spin with, tried to fly everywhere, and left a bit of a mess in my office. Not great to have little plastic fibers hanging around with a new kitten who is still figuring out what is and isn’t edible. I think I’ll be happy with the yarn once off the spindle, just not sure how often I want to use this particular fiber as part of the mix.
I also had a fabulous time at the FeltTastic Fashion virtual workshop on “painting” with needle felt. I promise a more in depth post, work today went long and I want my brain to feel less like mush before putting the experience into words.
Black lives still aren’t being treated as equal
I know that in a year which has been totally insane with new urgent issues popping up regularly along the back drop of the pandemic, but we can’t let the protests from June fade out of memory. Breonna Taylor’s killers still haven’t been held responsible, and over the weekend we saw yet another police shooting (seven bullets in the back) of a black man. We need extensive changes to our systems to see real change. I suggest supporting organizations working towards these changes, in addition to calling or writing your representatives, showing up at community meetings, and so much more:
- Black Visions Collective – “Black Visions Collective (BLVC) believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right relationship within our ecosystems.”
- The Movement for Black Lives – “The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) formed in December of 2014, was created as a space for Black organizations across the country to debate and discuss the current political conditions, develop shared assessments of what political interventions were necessary in order to achieve key policy, cultural and political wins, convene organizational leadership in order to debate and co-create a shared movement wide strategy. Under the fundamental idea that we can achieve more together than we can separately”
- NFC Momentum Fund – Karida Collins of Neighborhood Fiber Co recently raised $100,000 to start the NFC Momentum Fund, a donor-advised charitable fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation . The NFC Momentum Fund will be able to receive tax-deductible donations that will be dispersed to a variety of organizations working for justice, empowerment, and equality. At its heart, the Fund will allow her to focus giving to the areas that need it most.