Just after I finished editing and putting out my latest tutorial video I wondered where my first video was. I used to carry it around in my laptop bag and play it at shows, it’s 13 minutes of an overview of making a sweater in my studio on my knitting machine.
Well, I found it and managed to get it uploaded to YouTube. It’s not a tutorial but educational, I remember speaking with a woman at the Chicago One of a Kind show where she thought (and she was not alone) that got the fabric from somewhere and created a sweater by cutting and assembling….. I put her straight by showing her the first few minutes of this video and she said she would never assume again!
Also, sometimes I just don’t have the time to take photos and that was the case recently on my second trip to Chicago to conduct a workshop in making one of my jackets. What fun I had and what a lot of work…which I love, my only regret, but couldn’t be helped, was that we couldn’t add an hour or two to the days the Interknit group of Chicago. I’d love to have gone longer to get the ladies further along in their projects.
InterKnit Machine Knitting Guild of Chicago
However, I saw wonderful knitting happening, from some who really knew what they were doing to those who valiantly struggled along with this new (to them) craft….I praise them all!
Mary and me at the end of Navy Pier on a hot Fall day.
Mary picked me up at the airport and we spent the afternoon on Navy Pier, which I had only seen lit up an night before. We went on the Ferris wheel and looked at a wonderful display of stained glass.
Can this be knit?
Speaking of stained glass and women’s work, an excellent read is ‘Clara and Mr Tiffany‘ written by Susan Vreeland from letters written by Clara Wolcott Driscoll, a key woman behind Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass work.
The workroom we used for the Chicago jacket workshop.
Working hard.
Giving a little help.
Thanks Valoria for the photos of the workshop.
Well, speaking of woman’s work, I’m off to my knitting machines!
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 friend Georgia came with me to chemo last week and brought five Bottles of Hope that she had made. These ones were beautiful and this photo doesn’t do them justice but was in my treatment chair and took this on the spur of the moment. Check out her blog for pics of her ‘ladies’…
Self portrait at race start. Well, what have I been doing the last few weeks?! I registered for Beat Beethoven here in Kingston last Sunday June 5th where there is an 8k run or the 4k walk/run to be completed before the Kingston Symphony complete playing Beethoven’s 3rd symphony Eroica. Once or twice I’ve stood around to…
And I’m not talking about guys in town that’ll do your house! These wonderfully talented women (and my husband) were found celebrating the award recipients at the KAC Juried Art Salon last Thursday evening. A lovely Spring evening found many of Kingston fine artists and art supporters in the Wilson Room of the public library…
Weather above zero, cold almost over, energy sorta back so I ventured forth for a power walk before locking myself in the studio…… look what I found!!! Snowdrops in the sunshine!!!…..and not the ones that melt on your tongue. There were tons of them in many front gardens along my route… very uplifting!!!
I had to give up going to Cleveland for Inspiration ’08, the machine knitting seminar there as I’m off to England with my parents in five days! Though I really missed the weekend with my friends, getting together with other machine knitters and getting inspired and learning new things from people like Iris Bishop I…
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Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!
Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!