A few days ago I realized that today marks the day 24 years ago I walked in to a building on University Avenue, Toronto, to register my business. Whew! I’ve been doing this a long time, not done yet, still a long way to go, many more designs to knits, avenues to take them. The…
That’s the question I ask many of my clients or they ask me. As time goes on and my hands get older there won’t be a choice, using cotton on the knitting machine, creating jackets with shaping means using multi prong tools to move stitches in and out creating vertical darts. Sure I like the…
Well, it’s raining again but mild enough for me to have my studio dooor open. This means that our cat just wandered up meowing trying to tell me he’s bored and needed a little attention, now he’ll curl up at the top of the stairs and monitor the driveway and his cat door (his friends…
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….
Well, drove three hours to get to the Knitter’s Jamboree in Mississauga …. all the machine knitting vendors (and more) in one place for a day. When your sewing machine breaks down or you need some bits you head to your local sewing machine seller. With knitting machines it’s usually time spent on the internet…
On our way home from vacation we hit Williamsburg and I found a knitting store. We managed to get to Knitting Sisters before they closed for the day. It is a wonderful store and they had just finished a workshop and the store was full of mad knitters with one husband sitting quietly in their…
This little knitted purse is an exercise in bead knitting which was fun to do while away on vacation. Working on something that involves close pattern following and counting beads somewhat like on an abacus took my ever thinking/designing/business organizing mind off into a quiet place with a pretty result at the end. Though I…
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…
The first day of my vacation and long deserved break from the studio was warm and sunnyu for driving and we hit the Philadephia Museum of Art, . I had wanted to see a small exhibition of 18th & 19th century dresses, corsets and accessories but when ‘he who must be obeyed’ (just kidding!) went…
Hooray!! Off on vacation soon, rest my aching joints from so much machine knitting over the past few months with shows in the offing but now are over. Cape Hattaras National Seashore is a special place, when you look on a map of North Carolina it’s way out into the Atlantic ocean. Off season there…