I may have mentioned this before but I’m a huge fan of the TV program Project Runway. Two weekends ago my sister Judi Goldie and I took a trip to New York (on Amtrak not a Greyhound a la Billy Joel) and as it was her first time in the Big Apple it was ‘her’ trip…
Who’d a thunk it. On vacation and I didn’t pack my sock knitting stuff…on purpose. First…there are too many ball of yarn to pack as I knit my socks from about a dozen different self patterning balls each. Second, thought I’d give my left thumb and wrist a rest. Anyway, I’ve got to spend time…
It’s been a busy Summer and I can’t believe we’re into September…however, a wonderful paddle with the group SUP Kingston on my paddle board this morning was just the height of Summer. It was so good to get out as I had spent last week indoors mostly at a workshop with Australian felter Pam de…
After a weekend away doing the Craft Ontario Craft show in Toronto, it’s good to be back in the studio….though even that seemed to be full of people for a while (but nice). The Machine Knitting Club of Kingston met in my studio for the first time on Tuesday (we meet the second Tuesday of…
There are many health concerns that go along with doing what we artists and artisans do on a daily basis. We have to contend with repetitive stress on various joints in our hands, elbows and arms, maybe even legs (I do alternately roll my felting with my feet). Anyone who sits for hours at a…
Working towards this fun and well attended event. It’s half way to the One of a Kind Show in Toronto so it will get me in show mood! Here’s a new little felted hat… …now back to some knitting.
Helping the shoppers. It’s been a busy week that actually started on Saturday in Haliburton with a trunk show at the studio of my friend Susan Watson Ellis of Paradigm Designs. We had a nice stream of folk visiting and a book club of ladies from Ottawa! It was a great day spent with Susan….
It’s been a busy August with a wet felting workshop and a birthday trip to Vermont (my birthday trip from my husband). We stayed in a lovely old Victorian B&B in Shelburne VT just down the road from the Shelburne Museum which is more like our Upper Canada Village or Black Creek Pioneer Village in…
I can’t believe it’s been a week since my friend Sonja and I were in Peru, Indiana participating in Spring Fling machine knitting semimar put on my Charlene Shafer of the Knit Knack Shop there. We had quite an adventure! Starting out Thursday morning from Toronto where I stayed over with Sonja, we drove through…
Well, just one short week to go and I’ll be on the road to Toronto for the Spring 2013 One of a Kind Show. It feels kind of fresh for me as I didn’t do it last year so have had a break. I think I went down at Christmastime to look but it’s been…