Dr. Sue Hendler On Monday evening, my neighbour and aquaintance Sue Hendler passed away after a long battle with breast cancer. This year my sister Judith (Judi to the rest of the world) and I will walk on ‘Sue’s Care Team’ in the CIBC Run for the Cure here in Kingston on October 4th. …
Yesterday I was telling my other half how I just wanted to create new things and not have to get my few remaining orders finished – there’s little creativity in following orders. Anyway, while attending to email and finishing my morning tea in bed he brought up the post and there was a brown envelope…
Materials bag with some of the tools, clay and instructions. I can’t believe that August 22nd has come and gone. That was the day for the Rockport Development Group’s Button’s & Beyond, a polymer clay workshop taught by me, and set up by my friend Margot Miller of Rockport ON. Funded by OMAFRA it was…
One of the first things I do each morning is look at my Yarn Harlot ‘page a day’ calendar which I got indirectly from Stephanie via her Mum and my neighbour (bless them all). Today she talked about knitters watching fewer foreign films because of the subtitles and how knitters prefer dramas, more listening and…
David, daughter Claire, a friend and Donna (Dave’s wife) My neighbour Dave More has written his second book of an historic trilogy ~ ‘The Lily and the Rose’. What has that to do with knitting…not much but that for this launch he invited six creative friends to exhibit at Historic Fort Henry here in Kingston…
Andrea’s Jacket I’m overdue in posting these pictures of Andrea Orpana (my intermediate student) and her wonderful jacket made in my Haliburton class. Jacket Back She spent a lot of time afterwards finishing her beautiful creation. One thing I want Andrea and other machine knitters to become comfortable with is working in the loose ends…
The front doors of Flemming College“Within These Walls The Walls Disappear” I’ve been back from my first whole week in Haliburton teaching Machine Knitting. Unfortunately I found that life goes on when you’re out in the country, driving through rain storms to the BBQ’s, hot tubbing and lake swimming. The work I left behind divided…
Well, my friend Margot Miller in Rockport Ontario has grabbed me some time at the Old Schoolhouse there. The Rockport Rec Centre as it is also known, is booked for Saturday August 22nd 10am – 4pmfor aButton Making Workshop Working with Polymer Clay and a package of tools to get you started and a tile…
I’m off to Artemisia in Westport to restock some items as they do seem to sell well there, then my friend Georgia (framer and 1/3 owner at Artemisia) and I are off to Perth to visit Janie Hickman at her yarn store JanieHKnits as she’s having a sale.I didn’t make any decent money at Fanfayr…
Well, I did weave a tangled web the other day, frustrating!!! While knitting a black jacket for a client I noticed the knit was looser and found that the Cannele Mercerised cotton I was using had ‘gone thin’. I’ve had it happen before, and what happens is …. a tiny knot and the next length…