When you visit a city for a workshop, you never get to really see the town, unless you meet a wonderful woman like Nancy. I sat next to her at Friday’s lunch and we got chatting. She has lived and worked in Minneapolis for years working, I believe, with museums among other things. I asked…
Wha???? Took my wrist supports off late, washed them and three hours (3am) later got up to hit the road for the Syracuse airport to get to here…Mounds View Minnesota. The supports were still wet so I thought sticking them in the air vents while the warm air blows out might work, it did, they…
As I knit my way towards the One of a Kind show and Sale ~ in Toronto this year, first five days ~ the phone rings….is it library telling me I haven’t returned a book on CD (they found it eventually), a bill I’ve overlooked or good news? Great news, I’m back teaching another week…
Andrea’s Jacket I’m overdue in posting these pictures of Andrea Orpana (my intermediate student) and her wonderful jacket made in my Haliburton class. Jacket Back She spent a lot of time afterwards finishing her beautiful creation. One thing I want Andrea and other machine knitters to become comfortable with is working in the loose ends…
The front doors of Flemming College“Within These Walls The Walls Disappear” I’ve been back from my first whole week in Haliburton teaching Machine Knitting. Unfortunately I found that life goes on when you’re out in the country, driving through rain storms to the BBQ’s, hot tubbing and lake swimming. The work I left behind divided…
Well, my friend Margot Miller in Rockport Ontario has grabbed me some time at the Old Schoolhouse there. The Rockport Rec Centre as it is also known, is booked for Saturday August 22nd 10am – 4pmfor aButton Making Workshop Working with Polymer Clay and a package of tools to get you started and a tile…
The April Fool’s Day display at this year’s Spring OOAK Surely while I’m on vacation I can find time to post. Taking my laptop with me (and printer this time) to the rental by the shore with friends I can keep up with my email. This is good as I am getting emails about a)…
Show time just a week away, this time next week I’ll be running around like that headless chicken trying to get everything up from the basement, out from my studio and packing to go to the One of a Kind show Spring ’09!!!! Way too soon in my book even though it is a week…
Down in the Dumps I’ve been meaning to post for weeks now but my six weeks of healing and down time have passed and I still need another. Physically I’m healed enough to start working again, I’m knitting wool as I don’t know if I can tackle cotton which is harder to use pulling and…
I just thought I had better put this little bit of business online, that the Beach Studio Tour that I founded back in 1994 has invited some of the original artists to have some of their current work displayed in the Beach prior to this Fall’s tour. DeClute real estate offices 2241 Queen St E…