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Socks Apeal or New Socks.
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…
Memoirs of a Knitter’s Vacation
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…
Knit 1 Weekend Part 2
Terenya & Foamy I did take more photos on our Knit 1 weekend, January 8th, so here are some more. Above is a snap of Terenya with my foam dress form over in the lovely ‘coffee corner’, can you imagine your own little ‘fridge and coffee maker in your studio…. I have to go downstairs,…
Bonnie’s Last M Knitting Blast!
Road Trip!!!! Three women, one red car and a machine knitting seminar, the Bonnie Triola seminar, to get to. We arrived to late to find a bottle of wine to relax after the long road trip so I dug out some chai tea bags and we hit the hay. A busy first day, getting registered,…
Wanted: Extinct Knitter’s Tool!!!
Do you have one of these and desparately need to get rid of it, can’t stand it cluttering up your space? Well, you’ve found a buyer. Pictured here is a 47 prong Transfer Tool used on most Standard Bed knitting machines. I use mine every day as I make vertical darts in my handloomed knits….
First 40 Years!
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…