No, this has nothing to do with being a fibre artist in a craft show but having interesting friends. Our friends showed us a house in transition and this is one of the bathrooms, the decor is red… right down to the toe nails on the claw footed tub!!!
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…
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,…
Well, it’s raining again but mild enough for me to have my studio dooor open. This means that our cat just wandered up meowing trying to tell me he’s bored and needed a little attention, now he’ll curl up at the top of the stairs and monitor the driveway and his cat door (his friends…
I have started this new year off in the grip of a burning desire to hand knit. I still machine knit every day as I have work piled up to get done for my clients but I love the hand knit look and some of the styles that are out to knit. I buy hand…
My first post… hmmm. It’s four days and counting to the drive to Toronto to set up my booth for the One of a Kind Show Spring 2006 and it’s the frantic time. I had soooo many plans for over the Winter, give a one day seminar on the software I use to create the…
How wonderful is this? Ebay finally found, in their lovely search facility, the tools I have been seeking for months! (See May 5th’s post) Pictured above are the ones I craved though a couple of others came in the ‘lot’ that I don’t need or cannot use. I move large bunches of stitches at once…