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!!!
Well, sigh and yipee… the last (and biggest) show of the year is over, and though I have a ton of my cardis to knit before Christmas and get them to my clients the pressure and stress isn’t the same. The Chicago One of a Kind is great and it was neat this year in…
I just renewed my loan on this book, I really want to keep it but the library wouldn’t be too pleased. I’ll have to search for it as it has lots in it about the Wool Movement of the mid 1800’s. The illustration is from a company started in 1846 to sell hand knitted underwear….
I have started this new year off in the grip of a burning desire to hand knit. I still machine knit every day as I have work piled up to get done for my clients but I love the hand knit look and some of the styles that are out to knit. I buy hand…
Well, the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour is over, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time parked on my friend Margot’s front lawn. This weekend the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny unlike the rainy weekend we had for the Victoria Day weekend. That weekend I was hanging up my sweaters with frozen…
Well, first, I have not photo to post… well I do but it’s still in the camera along with pics of the booth and some photos of clients which I took for their files. For five years, I’ve been showing up on the morning of the first day and setting up before they boot us…
I got an email the other day from a client who is a very sweet woman, we came to know each other a bit better over some trials and tibulations with her order and fitting. The last time I saw her we had a lovely chat and she told me she wouldn’t be ordering somthing…