Well, I know it was planned, Brianne told me so, but it was so significant! Brianne Begani is in sales at the One of a Kind Chicago Show which happens in December and is one of the key contact person at the show. Anyway, Friday…. I’m mired in work, it’s been a funny year. I’ve…
Yes, I know, sad title for this post really but applicable. Actually got out of the studio Saturday evening and went to a book launch to support our neighbour David More who has just finished his first novel ‘The Eastern Door’. After wine and nibbles, catching up with some old friends and much book signing,…
I just wrote all this, clicked something WRONG and have to write it all over again…sheesh. Well, this is about my day off after the semimar. My other half had spied a yard sale headed ‘Seamstress Quits’ in the paper and was then heading downtown to the Sunday Antique Market. At the former I found…
Road Trip!!!! Three women, one red car and a machine knitting seminar, the Bonnie Triola seminar, to get to. We arrived to late to find a bottle of wine to relax after the long road trip so I dug out some chai tea bags and we hit the hay. A busy first day, getting registered,…
Thank heaven for junk or ‘yard sale’ stores and the husbands who frequent them. My husband goes out, I don’t know where he is (he works at home) but he comes home with the faint odor of… no, not perfume, not booze but mildew from rooting through these establishments! Today he came home with a…
How wonderful for my friend Georgia to give me this little box which she made for me for my birthday. It’s the little ball of wool of polymer clay ‘yarn’ on top complete with tiny knitting needles and real cotton which Georgia managed to actually knit that gets me. I was overwhelmed at it’s ……..
Well, I’m knitting as fast as I can, however, things have gone very slowly over the Summer and I feel so behind in my orders for my knit cardigan jackets. The cardi in the pic is one I designed last Fall and did so well with in Chicago at the One of a Kind Show…
I just renewed my loan on this book, I really want to keep it but the library wouldn’t be too pleased. I’ll have to search for it as it has lots in it about the Wool Movement of the mid 1800’s. The illustration is from a company started in 1846 to sell hand knitted underwear….
Well, I know it looks in these pics like I’ve been skiving off from the studio but it got so hot I just couldn’t function in the studio anymore the last couple of weeks. I’ve a studio full of windows and a skylight, ceiling fans and a breeze from Lake Ontario a block away but…
Well, cruisng the library for something else I found a wonderful book in the business section: ‘Shops and Shopping 1800 – 1914’. Yes, it really is a book about what it says. I’ve just dipped into it so far but I’ve decided that I have to find a copy for my own library in my…