I can’t believe I ate the whole thing…. well, that’s a bit of what I feel now that the first craft show of the year is over. One of the most fun parts was the Mango martinis and sushi we designers were offered after the opening night fashion show.
Here’s a pic of three of us with Jeannie Becker, that’s Line Dufour, Lynn Roberts Jeannie and me in the tangerine wrap.
Why am I always taller than everyone else….I know Jeannie was wearing heels?
Well, sigh and yipee… the last (and biggest) show of the year is over, and though I have a ton of my cardis to knit before Christmas and get them to my clients the pressure and stress isn’t the same. The Chicago One of a Kind is great and it was neat this year in…
I’ve needed to post for days, I got this lovely little camera for Christmas (previous post) and I carry it with me all the time and take pictures when the fancy takes me. The pictures here were taken weeks apart but in the same spirit… I was in a place of peace and quiet. The…
‘Poor as a stockinger’ has been a phrase from the 1500’s when men’s and women’s stockings were worked by hand using needles and then on the early ‘knitting machine’ then called a knitting frame. As a four and a half decade machine knitter, it’s fascinating and humbling to see where the industry started and used…
So much has been going on since the Gallery Show but one thing that I have done for the past few years is the local Sheepdog Trials run by Amanda Milliken. It’s at Grasscreek Park where the McLauchlin Woodworking Museum is located. I didn’t get to park my display next to my friends Ann Woodall…
Well, June 2nd, 2022 found me celebrating the day, forty years ago, that I walked down University Avenue in Toronto to register my business…Carolyn M. Barnett Designs…how imaginative…NOT! However, I thought that ‘Jumpers’ just wouldn’t fly in Canada (the Brit word for sweaters) so I went with my name. That’s worked well in that when…
Well, the show was great success and I had a lot of fun. Sometimes the most fun was sitting on the floor playing ‘Skip-Bo’ with my friends’ two boys! I’t’s so fun to play kids card games!! Anyway, we had a few stops in East Lansing one of which was ‘Elderly’ Instruments which seems to…