More from Artisan Knitworks, in Detroit, these are the skeins of yarn I purchased. The first one is a jumble of different colours and textures of yarn, including some blue sparkle! There were two skeins and, for my budget, I chose the smaller one…the other one didn’t have sparkles. I’ll use this in my felting…
A red letter day a couple of weeks ago when my friend Jane came over with some yarn she had found in her late mother’s stash. This yarn is from at least the ’50’s judging by the labels….but, it is beautiful yarn. I will knit little things, maybe scarves for myself, from this. I should…
I can’t believe it’s been a week since my friend Sonja and I were in Peru, Indiana participating in Spring Fling machine knitting semimar put on my Charlene Shafer of the Knit Knack Shop there. We had quite an adventure! Starting out Thursday morning from Toronto where I stayed over with Sonja, we drove through…
Pink Felted Vest detail. My feet hurt…and we’re not even in Toronto yet! I spent last night sewing a new table covering for my booth table…so I can access all the stuff I store under the table, printing out rack cards…after photographing some new items this morning….outside…in the wind! While Monday night is our ‘movie…
Just a quickie for anyone who might like to purchase a Knit Knotes note book…Blurb has an offer or $10 off if you order using the code Until March 31st SHARE10 Knit Knotes Get one for yourself for and one for you BFFF (best fibre friend forever)! Blurb… Inside are lots of line pages for…
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…
I can’t believe it’s time for shows again….I always think there’s this long, bleak Winter period when I can get tons of stuff done as there will be no other demands on my time, but…NO! I’ve had a busy Winter and not done nearly all the things I wanted (start the book, felt a long…
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…
Ten thirty am and not dressed (again!), answering email, uploading photos of the hat making I did the other day, resizing photos for a web site I build, now I have to place them and upload. Laying out my hat. A studio tour application to drop off (when I get the accompanying photos edited and…
I have used Eucalan for years to wash sweaters, both hand knits and machine knits. I’ve even used it to rescue one that had been dry cleaned almost to extinction. This tip is new to me, though the literature I got when I first started using it said you could clean almost anything delicate. I…