At Balleycanoe – Toronto Skyline in Folkart Today I got a response to yesterday’s post about my favourite spots on the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour. My old friend John Marr of ‘Canadian Roadflix‘ sent me a link to a piece he had done a couple of years ago on Balleycanoe. It…
Well, the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour is over, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time parked on my friend Margot’s front lawn. This weekend the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny unlike the rainy weekend we had for the Victoria Day weekend. That weekend I was hanging up my sweaters with frozen…
Well, I was going to write about something I’m sure a few days ago but cannot remember what, I’ve been so busy getting ready for the studio tour this weekend. Well, I do know that I couldn’t resist picking up my camera and taking a pic of our cat sleeping on the ‘sheep’ mat I…
How sweet is this? While mooching around the Buxton Village Books in the Outer Banks NC last week I found this Knitting Muse. They had a large one but after last year I’m on a tight budget so when I found this one in a card I had to have her. She’s made of metal,…
My little booth at Just for Us Well, I’ve three shows under my belt at this point, the One of a Kind in Toronto, Just for Us also in TO and Originals in Ottawa. After missing the Chicago show as I was still in chemo the Ottawa show was down so this year has sort…
This is the only place were putting on weight is a good thing! Rosemary J. at her knitting machine Just back from the first show of the season, the One of a Kind Show in Toronto, and it was a great weekend to feel back in the swing. The show was early as it was…
Well, there’s another workshop done, and a lot of fun it was too. Two of the participants had been here before but the third who had not is a seasoned knitter and did a great job. The technicality wasn’t the problem there but creating a garment that would fit and suit her. With the help…
I had client revisit me today for another cardi. This lovely lady has brought me something to work with before (a houndstooth fabric) and this time it is a piece of jewelry (pictured). It’s a piece of art glass as a neck piece with the most iridescent colours of glass overlay. The pendant shimmers and…
What a hoot! While rifling thought the hall closet looking for a sweater for my Mum to wear I found a lovely green striped one I had made her ages ago. On it there was a pin of some sort, it was an old pin from the Festival of Canadian Fashion in which I participated…
Just got this in an email from my Dad!!!!(No I don’t know these folk)