For you machine knitters doesn’t this look like a fun machine….I haven’t investigated but it looks like you set it up and let ‘er rip! That’s what the uninitiated have been saying I do for years….we know it’s not so by any stretch of the imagination. Anyway, I don’t have a whiz bang machine..except for…
Well, the only thing this has to do with knitting is that I am working with a Cotton Jersey knit fabric. With an honorarium book token I went off to Chapters to pick up a book on dyeing I had seen….but I came home with a sewing book: ‘Alabama Studio Sewing + Design’ A Guide to…
…..from 10 – 5 Saturday and Sunday May 4th & 5th tour around the various locations and studios of Kingston for the annual art tour. Yesterday a small group of us was interviewed on Live@5 on CKWS…what fun that was. My first time in that studio….I’ll not watch the news the same way again! Check…
Purple Pleaser Mine…All Mine… Finally got some more felting done and made myself a jacket….that I won’t sell! I wore it out to it’s first event, the opening of the The Art of Winter at the Thousand Islands Arts Center in Clayton NY. It was so nice to have something new to wear that I…
Happy New Year everyone. We had a white Christmas and lots of snow shovelling, good exercise and lovely weather to be out and see neighbours after the holidays…..also time to keep knitting and create warm things to bolster us in the Canadian Winter. Here’s a shot out of my dining room window of our street…
It must seem as if I took a long time to finish this jacket but it’s done and long gone to it’s new owner …. and wouldn’t you know it I didn’t take a photo of the finished product. The same style in a different colour is shown in the fourth image. After the jacket…
Just a couple of thoughts about the process…
Well, with Art Amont The Ruins just a short week away I’m trying to get some more vests done, and also to start photographing and videoing myself working. All needed for web site, grant applicatioins and so on. Laying out a vest. So here I am at my work table that when I set it…
Studio on Tour Weekend. That’s another Kingston Art Tour weekend come and gone, lots of work – clearing out the studio of all my piles of paperwork, bills, bags of yarn and so on, tidying up and stashing boxes in the basement. Today I get to put all that stuff back! I had some great…
Garter Carriage Hem Edge More working on the garter carriage, this us the hem edge of a new jacket. I haven’t uploaded it to my web site yet as I haven’t made the buttons….maybe in a day or so so I can photograph the jackets I’ve made when the sun is shining. The jackets I…