Garter Carriage Designing
Garter Carriage Hem |
Garter Carriage Hem |
What a weekend was last weekend! It started on Thursday when I was part of a four artisan delegation who set up in Brockville ON at 55+ Canada Games. We set up in St Lawrence Park overlooking the St Lawrence river and 1000 islands, it was beautiful, I set up my knitting machine and got…
As I knit my way towards the One of a Kind show and Sale ~ in Toronto this year, first five days ~ the phone rings….is it library telling me I haven’t returned a book on CD (they found it eventually), a bill I’ve overlooked or good news? Great news, I’m back teaching another week…
Andrea’s Jacket I’m overdue in posting these pictures of Andrea Orpana (my intermediate student) and her wonderful jacket made in my Haliburton class. Jacket Back She spent a lot of time afterwards finishing her beautiful creation. One thing I want Andrea and other machine knitters to become comfortable with is working in the loose ends…
I received a wonderful email this week from one of the talented ladies I met in Peru, Indiana at ‘Spring Fling’ in April.That was a great weekend that I got to share with my friend Sonja (knitter extraordinaire). Miriam Nordstrom purchased my pattern: ‘Charley’ and worked it up to her own unique design. She used…
My good, but distant, friend Judith had a project last year, to make one of my designs (one she had made in a workshop in my studio, in a style to wear to a Breast Cancer fundraiser. She was working in Black Cannele mercerised cotton with ‘Sugar’ (pink) accents. She needed some pink and asked…
Well, we finally did it, we had our Knit 1 weekend. Knit 1 is a design school in Brighton, England where courses can be taken on amazing knitting techniques. My friend Sonja has the series of tutorial books purchased from their web site and four of us got our shorts in a bunch, chomping at…