I may have mentioned this before but I’m a huge fan of the TV program Project Runway. Two weekends ago my sister Judi Goldie and I took a trip to New York (on Amtrak not a Greyhound a la Billy Joel) and as it was her first time in the Big Apple it was ‘her’ trip…
Well, I am, as well as everyone….(the alternative is just not an option just now….too much life to live). Anyway, August 15th found me turning 65 in another country, on one of our road trips. This one took us by WEBS in Northampton MA in the USA, an even though every CAD $ I spend…
Last year on our way down South we got stuck in horrible traffic on our way though Hagerstown MD so we deeked off the highway and found ourselves on 15 Southbound towards Gettysburg. What a find…the countryside was beautiful, even in the rain, and we drove past a corner junction in the hamlet of Lucketts…
Once again on our way down to the Outer Banks for that first hit of wind surfing for my other half and some early SUPing for me (stand up paddle boarding) we have to stop at yarn shops. My dear knitting buddy and friend Rose is now living in State College PA so she took…
Yesterday I went, with a friend, to visit the One of A Kind show in Toronto. As I always schlep stuff around and pick stuff up and also shop I took my lovely handy dandy Ikea bundle buggy. We had a cooler with sandwiches, apples (no show food for us) and water…a bottle at the…
Oh, busy, busy, and so is Roxana. I love this vest and one like it that I sent to her at her shop L’ARTellier du Village in Pointe-Claire in Montreal sold on the snowiest day last weekend! Roxana is such a busy woman, running this fun ‘fashion and art and lots of other things’ shop…
I was passed this by a fellow artisan and having sat in my show booth now for 31 years I’ve heard these comments a million times!!!!!!! This is a ‘cuuuute’ video. The women in this video must be seasoned artisans and have done lots of craft shows themselves. Having been on the scene a long…
More from Artisan Knitworks, in Detroit, these are the skeins of yarn I purchased. The first one is a jumble of different colours and textures of yarn, including some blue sparkle! There were two skeins and, for my budget, I chose the smaller one…the other one didn’t have sparkles. I’ll use this in my felting…
I can’t believe it’s been a week since my friend Sonja and I were in Peru, Indiana participating in Spring Fling machine knitting semimar put on my Charlene Shafer of the Knit Knack Shop there. We had quite an adventure! Starting out Thursday morning from Toronto where I stayed over with Sonja, we drove through…
Pink Felted Vest detail. My feet hurt…and we’re not even in Toronto yet! I spent last night sewing a new table covering for my booth table…so I can access all the stuff I store under the table, printing out rack cards…after photographing some new items this morning….outside…in the wind! While Monday night is our ‘movie…