Knitomat bed Last week while wandering around Perth (ON) we checked out the local charity shop (Salvation Army I believe) … you never know what you are going to find. When I found my husband in the window looking at something in a silent auction … an old knitting machine…called a Knitomat. I think it…
PEI Potatoes from the red earth. Well, I know it’s been three weeks today that I started the East Coast Machine Knitters’ seminar but things have been so busy since I returned that I have only just found five minutes to finish logging my journey. I started out to leave the island but stopped to…
Off to Toronto tomorrow to be a part of the Just for Us Originals show at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga. It will be another great weekend staying with my friend Sonja who is also at the show with her unique knits. It’s great how two women can enjoy and pursue machine knitting designing…
Whew!!!! Well the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is done and dusted (I’ve shaken off the dust now) and it was a good one. It was good to be back in that exhibition after an absence of four years. I either missed the application deadline or was juried out….but submitting my felteds got me in this…
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…
Sarah, Sonja and me. It’s over! I’m saying that in the ‘Thank Heaven for that – it went well…I thought!’ Whew! Anyone who has taught will know of the prep, research in what you don’t already know, boning up on what you do. I was asked by Pat and Eileen to return as one of…
Well, I’m back from my wonderful family vacation to Antigua. The first and only time we wil have this opportunity…10 1/2 of us went (my niece is pregnant). This is a shot of me with this lovely young woman in the market in St John’s where I bought a carved calabash bowl from her. Her…
I accompanied my friend Anne Woodall of Knit Traders wool shop to Toronto yesterday for a Pro Knitters meeting (great by the way…I’ll post about that later) and while she lunched with her offspring I did my fave thing …. wander around downtown TO. I went for dyes and silk and also to pick a…
One Saturday in February an event was named ‘FebFelt’ and seven women got together to create…..a felted vest. On the suggestion of the women of the board of Kingston Arts Council, our valiant pres Joan Heaton in particular, at a slightly boozy brunch I got caught up in the tide and learned a lot more in…
For a change, instead of teaching a workshop I took one! Yeah. After weeks of shows and getting a lot of work ready, photographing and listing things on Etsy and such I took a day for myself to learn more about Nuno felting which is something I’ve wanted to do for ages. I had found…