Once again on our way down to the Outer Banks for that first hit of wind surfing for my other half and some early SUPing for me (stand up paddle boarding) we have to stop at yarn shops. My dear knitting buddy and friend Rose is now living in State College PA so she took…
Though I’m nowhere near a knitting machine, wool or anywhere that needs wool at the moment my mind is still working on design. Christmas lights still ’round the studio door! Wandering around the island of St Martin/St Maarten in the Caribbean I’m bombarded by colour and it’s wonderful…especially during a Winter of white on white…
Whew, what a fun September! Where did Summer go? I took up SUP (stand up paddleboarding) and discovered a wonderful new passion…one that I can share with my husband. I took my board to Dorthy’s Lodge a couple of weekends ago for the VayClayTion, a retreat with a pile of wonderful polymer clayers. This event…
I love to teach! I love to impart what I have learned over the past 31 years to other potential machine knitters, polymer clayers, felters. I love to travel….anywhere, I don’t do it enough to be bored or fed up with it, exploring the world has been instilled in my by my Dad (who at…
Helping the shoppers. It’s been a busy week that actually started on Saturday in Haliburton with a trunk show at the studio of my friend Susan Watson Ellis of Paradigm Designs. We had a nice stream of folk visiting and a book club of ladies from Ottawa! It was a great day spent with Susan….
More from Artisan Knitworks, in Detroit, these are the skeins of yarn I purchased. The first one is a jumble of different colours and textures of yarn, including some blue sparkle! There were two skeins and, for my budget, I chose the smaller one…the other one didn’t have sparkles. I’ll use this in my felting…
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….
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…
Friday was a half day as Edith Scott would be showing up to set up at around 2pm, so I went down into Charlottetown. I have been here once before but didn’t get to mooch about on my own….something I love to do anyplace new. I found a huge cruise ship in the harbour just…
Well, I got lost in Bangor but I then ‘dyed’ and went to heaven! This sign was outside a building for children’s art and activities….it is so fun, the classes must be super!…there’s a violin on the other side! Anyway, I digress. While hunting for Stephen King’s house in Bangor I followed the directions of the…