While surfing the net looking for inspiration I found this blog…. http://www.aboutknittingmachines.com/KnittingMachineMagazines.html I started to download the magazines and one by one and found so much of use and interest…even among the oversize, drop shouldered ’80’s fashions I downloaded them all. I found a few things I want to make for myself, some neat instruction…
Last weekend was the Sheepdog Trials event in Kingston at Grass Creek Park. It’s an annual event in which I have taken part for years. I have a lovely time and my work travels back to far flung places such as the US and Australia! The skein I was handed. One of my favourite parts…
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…
Knitomat bed Last week while wandering around Perth (ON) we checked out the local charity shop (Salvation Army I believe) … you never know what you are going to find. When I found my husband in the window looking at something in a silent auction … an old knitting machine…called a Knitomat. I think it…
Well, just one short week to go and I’ll be on the road to Toronto for the Spring 2013 One of a Kind Show. It feels kind of fresh for me as I didn’t do it last year so have had a break. I think I went down at Christmastime to look but it’s been…
Purple Pleaser Mine…All Mine… Finally got some more felting done and made myself a jacket….that I won’t sell! I wore it out to it’s first event, the opening of the The Art of Winter at the Thousand Islands Arts Center in Clayton NY. It was so nice to have something new to wear that I…
It must seem as if I took a long time to finish this jacket but it’s done and long gone to it’s new owner …. and wouldn’t you know it I didn’t take a photo of the finished product. The same style in a different colour is shown in the fourth image. After the jacket…
Just a couple of thoughts about the process…
Well, with Art Amont The Ruins just a short week away I’m trying to get some more vests done, and also to start photographing and videoing myself working. All needed for web site, grant applicatioins and so on. Laying out a vest. So here I am at my work table that when I set it…
Sarah, Sonja and me. It’s over! I’m saying that in the ‘Thank Heaven for that – it went well…I thought!’ Whew! Anyone who has taught will know of the prep, research in what you don’t already know, boning up on what you do. I was asked by Pat and Eileen to return as one of…