Studio on Tour Weekend. That’s another Kingston Art Tour weekend come and gone, lots of work – clearing out the studio of all my piles of paperwork, bills, bags of yarn and so on, tidying up and stashing boxes in the basement. Today I get to put all that stuff back! I had some great…
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…
Well, I’m back from my wonderful family vacation to Antigua. The first and only time we wil have this opportunity…10 1/2 of us went (my niece is pregnant). This is a shot of me with this lovely young woman in the market in St John’s where I bought a carved calabash bowl from her. Her…
I accompanied my friend Anne Woodall of Knit Traders wool shop to Toronto yesterday for a Pro Knitters meeting (great by the way…I’ll post about that later) and while she lunched with her offspring I did my fave thing …. wander around downtown TO. I went for dyes and silk and also to pick a…
Well, we’re well into 2012 and so many celebrations happening this year. At our annual Portsmouth Village (which it was until it was incorporated into the City of Kingston in 1958) residents AGM we talked about how the neighbour hood needs to be spiffed up as we will have and influx of sailors this Summer….
Well, it’s all happening! With the Ottawa Originals Spring show just around the corner, a small package arrived a couple of days ago and when I opened it and cut the top off the vacuum sealed bag…poof!…more prefelt! So I set to dyeing right away. The great thing about the Spring and the warmer weather and no…
One Saturday in February an event was named ‘FebFelt’ and seven women got together to create…..a felted vest. On the suggestion of the women of the board of Kingston Arts Council, our valiant pres Joan Heaton in particular, at a slightly boozy brunch I got caught up in the tide and learned a lot more in…
……tonight at the Grand Theatre, Simon Brault of the Canada Arts Council will talk and discuss the arts. I’m on the board of the Kingston Arts Council to I’ll be there with bells on. I’m looking forward to it. Kingston Arts Council Presents: Building Arts Communities in Kingston [Teaser] from josh lyon on Vimeo.
I finally signed up to Knit It Now…a bit pricey I thought but there is so much information and lots of videos on the web site. I now have access to lots of videos that I can explore myself and help demonstrate techniques to newbies. If you are considering learning to use a knitting machine…
Better colour. My first effort towards an actual jacket shape using prefelt with silk and rovings. In my last post I had a photo of my first (ever!) dying, it was supposed to be red…but came out an icky pink so I dyed it with blue and finally got something I could live with and…