No, this has nothing to do with being a fibre artist in a craft show but having interesting friends. Our friends showed us a house in transition and this is one of the bathrooms, the decor is red… right down to the toe nails on the claw footed tub!!!
That usually means going away and doing just what you do in your everyday life….well I sort of just did just that this past weekend but as my shows are over for the Summer it was different! I stood in for a friend. Friday afternoon was spent in a show tent in a park, something…
How wonderful for my friend Georgia to give me this little box which she made for me for my birthday. It’s the little ball of wool of polymer clay ‘yarn’ on top complete with tiny knitting needles and real cotton which Georgia managed to actually knit that gets me. I was overwhelmed at it’s ……..
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,…
‘Poor as a stockinger’ has been a phrase from the 1500’s when men’s and women’s stockings were worked by hand using needles and then on the early ‘knitting machine’ then called a knitting frame. As a four and a half decade machine knitter, it’s fascinating and humbling to see where the industry started and used…
Yipeeeee! What a wonderful Spring Sunday yesterday, my other half and I spent the day working in the studio (me, getting ready for the Spring shows), wiring up the house for our new broadband and reaching out an upstairs window to try to shift the sheet of snow and ice on the studio roof before…
It’s two days until the Maker’s Hand show in Picton starts, it’s three days long with Friday being 10am to 8pm. That means leaving home (at least I get to sleep in my own bed) at 8:30am and getting back about 9:30pm. If we can catch the right ferry coming home it’s fewer miles and…