‘Sway’ c 2000 On a recent trip to the beach at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County we planned a stop in Picton to acquaint ourselves with some of the new shops. A comment on a friends ace leather jacket led me to City Revival, a huge and wonderful use clothing store that is like…
A while back I wrote about polymer clay and tool handle making. I think there was an article in Knitwords about same so I had to add my two cents worth. A few years ago I taught Button Making at the Cardiknits seminar and make a latch tool which I had made out of a…
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…
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…
Whew! Just back from Cleveland, Ohio, where the first Inspiration machine knitting seminar happened this weekend. Fabulous!I guess I’m saying Whew because I taught two days worth off classes one week after my third chemo treatment and was so energized I flew through until I ran out of fumes somewhere during the last class. However…
I just remembered I shared a booth with my friend Georgia at the recent Dragon Boat races here in K’town and it made me focus on knitting a dragon on a pink jacket as we were there to in support of Breast Cancer Action Kingston. Their boat was powered by a great team of survivors….
…….to my business! June 2nd just came and went and I totally for got to celebrate. June 2nd 1982 was the day I went downtown Toronto and registered Carolyn M. Barnett Designs and started the mad knitting career with hand knitting. I’m still kicking! (albeit slowly just now). This charming bit of knitting was what…
My good, but distant, friend Judith had a project last year, to make one of my designs (one she had made in a workshop in my studio, in a style to wear to a Breast Cancer fundraiser. She was working in Black Cannele mercerised cotton with ‘Sugar’ (pink) accents. She needed some pink and asked…