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!!!
Image from the site “A Good Yarn: Knitting Blogs” I don’t read much with my eyes, waaaaay to tired when I get to bed and am usually working on a web site, blog or email when I finally nestle against my pillows. I usually ‘read’ my literature through my ears via my iPod ….. with…
I recently had a workshop on Cochenille’s Garment Designer pattern making software and one of the attendees, Marthe, was French, (she drove all the way from the other side of Ottawa so she came a long way), and had a little trouble with what I was telling everyone. (June 12th’s Blog: Garement Designer Workshop North)….
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…
On our way home from vacation we hit Williamsburg and I found a knitting store. We managed to get to Knitting Sisters before they closed for the day. It is a wonderful store and they had just finished a workshop and the store was full of mad knitters with one husband sitting quietly in their…
Soon we will no longer need these….. hand knitted socks, however I will still keep knitting them as I knit socks the way other folk (well some) smoke….except I don’t stand around in doorways knitting socks. There is a zen to knitting and it can be very calming, it’s a shame we can’t knit on…
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 ……..