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Slogging (stitching) through Winter

ByCarolynMB March 10, 2020

Well, with Winter here, though not as bad as in the ‘old days’ when Lake Ontario always frozen over enough to drive across to Wolfe Island, and hold little festivals on the lake, adaptation is key. One of the thing one might need to adapt to is illness and injury, which I have had to…

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Colour | cotton | Kantha jacket | kantha quilts | sewing | Wearables

Short and Sweet…Jacket Done!

ByCarolynMB April 30, 2019

Well, not so short. I made up a jacket using my cache of Kantha Quilts. I love them and had a hard time deciding how a simple jacket should look.  With five quilts, all double sided, I had a lot to choose from and I do have colours I like and some I really don’t….

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Creativity | In the Studio | sewing | Stencilling | wardrobe

Reviving An Old Passion

ByCarolynMB June 17, 2014

Well, the only thing this has to do with knitting is that I am working with a Cotton Jersey knit fabric. With an honorarium book token I went off to Chapters to pick up a book on dyeing I had seen….but I came home with a sewing book: ‘Alabama Studio Sewing + Design’  A Guide to…

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Art | Breast Cancer | Friends. | sewing

Losing a Friend….

ByCarolynMB July 11, 2013

As I learned at the funeral of my friend Patricia Hames…I must be ‘interesting’! Apparently she didn’t suffer fools gladly and only did things and hung out with folk that were ‘interesting’. I first met ‘Miss Hames’ in 1966 when I came to Canada and started in grad 11 at Loyalist Collegiate and Vocational Institute….she…

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