Purple Pleaser Mine…All Mine… Finally got some more felting done and made myself a jacket….that I won’t sell! I wore it out to it’s first event, the opening of the The Art of Winter at the Thousand Islands Arts Center in Clayton NY. It was so nice to have something new to wear that I…
Ten thirty am and not dressed (again!), answering email, uploading photos of the hat making I did the other day, resizing photos for a web site I build, now I have to place them and upload. Laying out my hat. A studio tour application to drop off (when I get the accompanying photos edited and…
Well, it’s been a busy few weeks since I returned from PEI. There was a workshop at Frontenac Secondary School that was very interesting as I have not worked solely with teenagers before and it was a unique experience! From deciphering teen talk & slang to figuring out what each individual was really interested in….
Last Wednesday I packed up the car with pool noodles, my box of felting stuff ( roving of a miriad colours, fancy yarns, scissors, coloured felt bits, etc) and some old towels and a mop and headed out the Odessa Fairgrounds…..for our Felted Vest Workshop. The Room I had dyed four pieces of prefelt different…
Just a quick note for anyone in the Kingston area: I’m having a Nuno Felted Vest Workshop and can accommodate a couple more participants. Wednesday August 8th 2012 10 – 4. $110 You will be provided with a predyed piece of prefelt along with silks, wools, roving and other embellishments. You will need to bring…
A bit more to the story of my felting I rigged up a ‘rolling machine’ using bike power…here’s the first video taken by my friend Patti on my iPhone….
Well, with Art Amont The Ruins just a short week away I’m trying to get some more vests done, and also to start photographing and videoing myself working. All needed for web site, grant applicatioins and so on. Laying out a vest. So here I am at my work table that when I set it…
Well, another studio tour under my belt and it was difficult. I have long loved being in my tent on my friend Margot’s front lawn, she has her little shop, the Summerhouse, in Rockport, Ontario…but this weekend was a scorcher. With my collection We know the garden centres were packed! Gardening seemed to be the…
Studio on Tour Weekend. That’s another Kingston Art Tour weekend come and gone, lots of work – clearing out the studio of all my piles of paperwork, bills, bags of yarn and so on, tidying up and stashing boxes in the basement. Today I get to put all that stuff back! I had some great…
Well, we’re well into 2012 and so many celebrations happening this year. At our annual Portsmouth Village (which it was until it was incorporated into the City of Kingston in 1958) residents AGM we talked about how the neighbour hood needs to be spiffed up as we will have and influx of sailors this Summer….