Photo: Stagg Photo Well, it’s been an Up and Down time since my last post, that was the day before I went in for the big op, the bilateral M and reconstruction. A down? As I mentioned to the lovely male nurse who escorted me into the OR too bad I got this all set…
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…
My friend Georgia came with me to chemo last week and brought five Bottles of Hope that she had made. These ones were beautiful and this photo doesn’t do them justice but was in my treatment chair and took this on the spur of the moment. Check out her blog for pics of her ‘ladies’…
Well, the November meeting of our polymer claygroup in this end of Ontario was attended by just Georgia and me. However we got a lot done. I wanted to learn about Gera Scott Chandler’s ‘fabric’ claying as I might be able to use it on my buttons (which might lead to a whole new sweater…
I finally got some photos out of Sonja’s camera from Inspiration 2007 in Cleveland last month. The ladies in the Button Making workshop did will in experimenting with polymer clay for buttons for their knit (and sewn) creations. I had everyone choose four half blocks of colour, so they had four colours to work with,…
This Saturday Ocober 27th, I will be conducting a button making workshop here in Kingston from 10am – 3pm. Email Robin for details if you would like to participate, there is still some room.
Just a quickie with no photos but after a trip to visit a plastic surgeon yesterday I feel so much better about any pending mastectomy! Left thinking ‘Hey! the upside of all this (besides some weight loss) is new hair and maybe even new boobs!” Now for pics and some hair and boobs but in…
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…
Well…. really…. red phone call day. My old friend Claire Maunsell gave me a ding from Nova Scotia and we burned up the phone lines! Claire is an amazing glass artist…. well an amazing artist anyway as she does more than glass, and she and her young family left Kingston three years ago. And we’ve…
Friday afternoon was polymer clay afternoon meeting for the EOPCG (Eastern Ontario Polymer Clay Group). By the looks of the photo we dragged out a lot of stuff and had a fairly productive couple of hours. Georgia got the others doing ‘Bottles of Hope“, a Breast Cancer project, I wanted to make beads for some…