Here is one of the yellow bicycles scattered throughout the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto where I spent last weekend for the Beach Studio Tour’s 20th Anniversary. It was quite an eventful weekend to say the least! I was the guest of painter Roderik Mayne and his wife Susan (who bopped around all weekend baking cookies,…
G – 47, right across from the Fashion Show stage (note my valances)! ….my last! Famous last words you say, well my husband sold my light bar at the show to Karen Gunna, from whom I bought a commemorative (well kinda) leather bracelet….so if I do return it will be in the dark! Shelly (centre)…
I’m busy in the studio with only three days until the One of a Kind Show … and one of those is Set Up day!!!! …
Meriel of Anwyn Yarn Studio hosted our Polymer Clay workshop and what a lovely space it was too. A small group (one of whom is taking my Machine Knitting Weekend workshop next month) it was busy and fun as any larger one I have had…and Anwyn is in my neighbourhood, two blocks away! Work and…
Working towards this fun and well attended event. It’s half way to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto so it will get me in show mood! Here’s a new little felted hat… …now back to some knitting.
Finally some warmer weather! Stepping from my front door to my studio door the other day I actually though ‘oh how warm it is’…. I guess minus 1 Celsius is warm after weeks of minus what seems like a squillion!!!!! While hunting for something in my studio (that can take weeks!) I came across a…
Well, apparently I’ve been trafficking in Muffatees!!! OK, to put it the knitter’s way, I’ve been selling my knitted fingerless mittens. https://www.etsy.com/listing/172432274/striped-wristlets?ref=shop_home_feat I can’t remember how this came about…maybe on Pinterest or Ravelry but I came across the word yesterday and started to Google…what fun. There are some great sites and blogs with patterns. Mine…
Well, it’s nearly 2014 and the New Year and I’m still getting Christmas stuff….how lovely! My lovely niece, who has her own business – Cuppycakes by Kirsten – shopped a local Etsyan and had this lovely hanger made for me for my Chrissy present from her. I love it and will probably used it in…
Whew! Christmas is over but on Christmas Eve I found my self short one gift…something for my 15 month old great nephew. Last year I got him a little toy but it was time to start making him something…hmmm. I know my niece and that side of my family is not into natural fibres so…
Oh, busy, busy, and so is Roxana. I love this vest and one like it that I sent to her at her shop L’ARTellier du Village in Pointe-Claire in Montreal sold on the snowiest day last weekend! Roxana is such a busy woman, running this fun ‘fashion and art and lots of other things’ shop…