T Stands For Thanks to Two Kathys

 

 We're meeting for T at my dining room table today.  I'm drinking cold water to honor T time.

I'm thanking two of my dear friends for their kindness today.  I'm sure from the post title and the return address label, you know this is from my friend Kathy in Ozarks.

This is for Lisca, who loves postage stamps.  If I have enough time, I'll see what I can find on this stamp.  Right now, I'm fighting blogger and trying to get this post finished before T time.  I forgot I had an appointment at Cox today at 12:30 and they are across town from me.

I was surprised how easy it was to find this stamp.  It is new and called Raven Story.  Sadly, USPS wouldn't allow me to copy the information, but it refers to indigenous people of the northwest, from southern Alaska, through British Columbia, and into Washington state.  If you are interested, you can read about it here.

It's too bad you can't tell these are gold spots and images on the stamp.  USPS's image is even worse than mine where it comes to showing the gold.

Isn't this truly lovely?  Hand stamped and colored, it impressed me a LOT!

What a sweet sentiment, too.  Thank you so very much, Kathy.  I am truly grateful.  It will hold pride of place shortly.

 

Do any of you remember my shopaholic friend, Kathy who lives in a town near me?  Kathy no longer blogs, but may be on Facebook, a place I will NEVER go.

 

Unfortunately, she dropped by unannounced while I was at the History Museum on Saturday.  She left a plethora of goodies, including this 25 piece set of unbelievable books that were copyrighted 1975.  Originally, I considered not even looking through the books, but sending them off to Goodwill (a charity shop in the U.S.).  Then I remembered how Erika uses an old sewing book she purchased and thought I might as well keep them, at least to see if there was anything good I could use in my art.

Imagine my surprise when I was perusing this first book I picked up, it is definitely NOT your average "craft" book.  When I saw this image of the table loom, I immediately thought of Kathy in Ozarks. 

 

I envisioned this could even have been her in 1975 using a loom similar to the one shown here.  I hope Kathy will tell us how similar it is to hers she uses all the time in their new home on the lake.  I will edit my post and give her answers to these questions, so you don't have to look for her responses.

 

This shows another table loom, probably much different from the one Kathy uses.

 

This page discusses different looms.  The image on the right shows the various parts of the loom, although I fear I cut off much of the legend in the lower right portion.  How similar is this to yours, Kathy?

I had just enough time to peruse another book before I had to take photos and get this post ready.

Imagine my surprise when the next book I opened had yet another loom, this one much different.

 

You should be able to read about the Inkle weaving and why it is called that.

 

Imagine how much more surprised I was when I turned the page and saw examples of Inkle weaving.  I could be incredibly wrong, but I thought this looked similar to one of the classes Kathy took at Fiber University in 2019.   Of course, Kathy didn't use a loom like that.

Unfortunately, I didn't understand any of this, but I'm hoping Kathy can.  I don't think Kathy used the same fibers as shown in the book.

Then it was time to put the books away.  I felt bad because the book also talked a lot about hand thrown pottery, which Kathy drank her wine from for T Tuesday this week.  These books may be vintage, but there is some really good information in them if one is interested.  There were SO many different subjects, like paper, clay, metal, jewelry making, weaving, fabric, cast iron, and even macrame.

As promised, here is Kathy's lovely card taking pride of place.  Thank you again, Kathy and thanks for answering all my questions, too.

One final bit of housekeeping is I have finally heard from the sixth person who won one of my ATCs.  When I drew and read her name, I decided to send her some of my handmade paper.  After all, she has showered me with gift after gift after gift in the past.  Yes, it's the lovely and adorable Mia (aka Craftartista).

Although this was not the post I intended to share this week, that one will have to wait till next week.  It's now time to share your own drink inspired post this week.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and not just this year.