Off to Toronto tomorrow to be a part of the Just for Us Originals show at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga. It will be another great weekend staying with my friend Sonja who is also at the show with her unique knits. It’s great how two women can enjoy and pursue machine knitting designing…
A couple of Saturday mornings ago I headed down to NY state to the delightful town of Clayton, NY to the Thousand Islands Arts Center to hold another workshop. Once again I had four ladies in the class in the upstairs class room. They were waiting patiently as I had been delayed at the border…
Last Wednesday I packed up the car with pool noodles, my box of felting stuff ( roving of a miriad colours, fancy yarns, scissors, coloured felt bits, etc) and some old towels and a mop and headed out the Odessa Fairgrounds…..for our Felted Vest Workshop. The Room I had dyed four pieces of prefelt different…
Just a quick note for anyone in the Kingston area: I’m having a Nuno Felted Vest Workshop and can accommodate a couple more participants. Wednesday August 8th 2012 10 – 4. $110 You will be provided with a predyed piece of prefelt along with silks, wools, roving and other embellishments. You will need to bring…
Whew!!!! Well the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is done and dusted (I’ve shaken off the dust now) and it was a good one. It was good to be back in that exhibition after an absence of four years. I either missed the application deadline or was juried out….but submitting my felteds got me in this…
A bit more to the story of my felting I rigged up a ‘rolling machine’ using bike power…here’s the first video taken by my friend Patti on my iPhone….
Well, with Art Amont The Ruins just a short week away I’m trying to get some more vests done, and also to start photographing and videoing myself working. All needed for web site, grant applicatioins and so on. Laying out a vest. So here I am at my work table that when I set it…
Well, another studio tour under my belt and it was difficult. I have long loved being in my tent on my friend Margot’s front lawn, she has her little shop, the Summerhouse, in Rockport, Ontario…but this weekend was a scorcher. With my collection We know the garden centres were packed! Gardening seemed to be the…
I found this posted on by one of my Facebook friends and found it fascinating. I’ve love John Cleese over the years in his many incarnations and this talk about Creativity is thought provoking and also cleared up a little about the way I think! Enjoy!
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…