Well, it seems so long ago now and had I not been so busy on my return I would have posted way sooner. I was in Palm Springs for a week onthe kind invitation of our friend Adrienne. I’ve never been to the desert before and I found it fascinating. The flora and fauna grabbed…
This gang or women descended on my studio last weekend out of a blizzard (no… we’d planned it for just ages) and I tried to work their @!*’s off over the weekend on their knitting machines. Carol (in red) supplied the fuel in the form of a marvelous manicotti -yum- which we ate on the…
What I do with my Saturday afternoon. Helping with research at Queen’s U. Here I’m all wired up (for sound?..) to see how I walk and if I can walk better. Old knee injury led to osteoarthritis in one knee and so I got called for research into how it can be slowed down, helped,…
I’ve been joining in the debate on the Machine Knitting e-list about waxing your yarn while (or before) knitting. Here is my two cents worth. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years when someone showed me how to attache candle stubs to my tension arm for my knitting yarn to run over. These two…
On my recent forays downtown with my new little camera ever at the ready, I’ve snapped a couple of store windows which I found delightful and interesting. The silver jewelry shop next to my bank put in a ‘Winter’ theme using knitted scarves (purchased and one in progress) all in pink, blue and ecru, and…
Well, one of the batches of wool I picked up on our way back from the Chicago show is now a cardi and I’m in love! It’s the jacket I picked up at the Knit Cafe on Queen in Toronto…. buy the wool get the pattern sort of thing. I had tried on the jacket…
Out for breakfast after a week of ‘cleansing’ (you know… no chocolate, booze, coffee, preservatives etc and for two days, no solids) we went to our fave place in downtown Kingston: Morrison’s. We got a window seat across from the back of City Hall where the new outdoor skating rink is and there is always…
I’ve needed to post for days, I got this lovely little camera for Christmas (previous post) and I carry it with me all the time and take pictures when the fancy takes me. The pictures here were taken weeks apart but in the same spirit… I was in a place of peace and quiet. The…
I have started this new year off in the grip of a burning desire to hand knit. I still machine knit every day as I have work piled up to get done for my clients but I love the hand knit look and some of the styles that are out to knit. I buy hand…
This is a pic of me with the lovely Nancy, proprietor of Woven Art in East Lansing. I always look for knitting shops as we travel and I picked this one out of the phone book as there were a few and I could only visit one if we intended to make the Canadial border…