Wow! All you Estyans out there will know what this means to me, I’ve been chosen as part of someone’s ‘Treasury’!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please check out the page, I’m in with some lovely items….I love the rice bowls and the earrings. They chose my Periwinkle SummerWrap of French Mercerized cotton with ribbon trim. So great for the…
Peter out front…with my ‘little bread truck’. Well, I finally made it to 15 Gower Ave in Toronto, the home of Sew Knit Serge owned by Peter Smith. I’ve know Peter since I met him years ago at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition)…if memory serves, back in the ’80’s. He had both sewing machines and…
What a weekend was last weekend! It started on Thursday when I was part of a four artisan delegation who set up in Brockville ON at 55+ Canada Games. We set up in St Lawrence Park overlooking the St Lawrence river and 1000 islands, it was beautiful, I set up my knitting machine and got…
My second year of Haliburton teaching and I’m just recovering from the work, having every minute filled, the energy of my ladies, not to mention the loading, unloading, loading and unloading the car with knitting machines, tool, ironing board, mannequins and so on. The drive is always beautiful…. unless you drive up after a two…
For Machine Knitters Well, this has been too long coming, I shot the stills about 18 months ago and Dad and I shot the video last Summer. I took a while to get it edited then the push was on for the end of April when I was demoing in Purls of Joy in Minneapolis…
Bridesmaid Dress 1974 Where do I start? That’s what my Dad, my sister and I said when we started to clear out my Mother’s closets. So far Value Village has benefitted by nine bags!!!!! One of the finds was my sister’s bridesmaid’s dress from my first wedding waaaay back in the seventies (yes I’m old…
Margaret Gladys Barnett (nee Milburn) 1919 – 2010 This past month has been difficult with my 90 year old Mum was admitted int Kingston General Hospital following another stroke… only this time not just a TIA. It was touch and go for a while then she was asking to go home, chatting and laughing and…
Long time no post….lots going on in my family as I have senior parents and am spending a lot of time with them these days. However I did participate in the Up The Garden Path studio tour the last two weekends in May. My wraps were selling so I am making more for the Art…
Manteo, Roanok Island NC. I knew there was a yarn shop around the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and I remembered one from years ago, the last time I went over to Roanok Island and it’s main town, Manteo. Fine Yarns at Kimbeeba is in what used to be an auto shop and under part of…