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…
I love taking workshops! Even though I have been doing what I do for 31 years I am always learning, we learn until we are gone. Learning new felting techniques. November afforded me the opportunity to take a workshop with Marjolein Dallinger of Bloomfelt.com. Her work is inspirational even if we don’t actually pursue that…
A fun thing that happened at the recent Wearable Art Show was Steve Di Monte the photographer taking pics all day, each day. CYL Photography is his studio. Then on after the last fashion show he went around saying he would do a quickie photo shoot of any of our work for a small fee…here…
Well, November is proving to be a really busy time of year (like I don’t know after 31 years!). I’m not doing the One of a Kind show Christmas edition but I have some small events that should be fun. The first one is at the new Anwyn Yarns just up the road from my…
….in Toronto now for the Wearable Art Show (moved from Mississauga) and I’m off in a couple of hours when I have loaded up my PT! Trio of Felted Hats. I’ve been working on a couple of new designs for my knits, some hats and also making scarves and wristlets which are fun to make as…
I love to teach! I love to impart what I have learned over the past 31 years to other potential machine knitters, polymer clayers, felters. I love to travel….anywhere, I don’t do it enough to be bored or fed up with it, exploring the world has been instilled in my by my Dad (who at…
Helping the shoppers. It’s been a busy week that actually started on Saturday in Haliburton with a trunk show at the studio of my friend Susan Watson Ellis of Paradigm Designs. We had a nice stream of folk visiting and a book club of ladies from Ottawa! It was a great day spent with Susan….
It’s been a busy August with a wet felting workshop and a birthday trip to Vermont (my birthday trip from my husband). We stayed in a lovely old Victorian B&B in Shelburne VT just down the road from the Shelburne Museum which is more like our Upper Canada Village or Black Creek Pioneer Village in…
I had a great workshop on Monday with a group of women here in Kingston and while I was fishing around for photos to put in this post artists Alana Kapell, who organized the day, sent me a ‘story’ of they day. Check it out. we had a super time with even wine and a…