Well, June 2nd, 2022 found me celebrating the day, forty years ago, that I walked down University Avenue in Toronto to register my business…Carolyn M. Barnett Designs…how imaginative…NOT! However, I thought that ‘Jumpers’ just wouldn’t fly in Canada (the Brit word for sweaters) so I went with my name. That’s worked well in that when…
Thank heaven for junk or ‘yard sale’ stores and the husbands who frequent them. My husband goes out, I don’t know where he is (he works at home) but he comes home with the faint odor of… no, not perfume, not booze but mildew from rooting through these establishments! Today he came home with a…
Hooray!! Off on vacation soon, rest my aching joints from so much machine knitting over the past few months with shows in the offing but now are over. Cape Hattaras National Seashore is a special place, when you look on a map of North Carolina it’s way out into the Atlantic ocean. Off season there…
This is being written after the fact as email access was spotty at best while away, but I’m still reaping the benefits of getting out of the studio and far away for a week. I like to call this pic ‘Sox on the Chesapeake’as I took it during our rainy drive over the …. you…
Here is a happy picture of three happy artists who have just delivered their work to the Kingston Public Library for the Kingston Arts Council’s 6th annual Juried Art Salon. It’s an annual wonderful collection of fine art, sculpture, mixed media and so on from artists and artisans in the Kingston area and who are…
I recently had a workshop on Cochenille’s Garment Designer pattern making software and one of the attendees, Marthe, was French, (she drove all the way from the other side of Ottawa so she came a long way), and had a little trouble with what I was telling everyone. (June 12th’s Blog: Garement Designer Workshop North)….