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!!!
I wrote this on International Women’s Day but only just got around to posting it. Listening to the women of The View this morning, they were reminding us of Sally Field winning the Oscar for ‘Norma Rae’ in 1980 while she was dating Burt Reynolds. Apparently, he wouldn’t go to the Oscars with her as…
No photo for this, though I should get one of my other hat… if anyone had any doubts or wondered about Ads by Google, I found ‘Headcovers.com‘ on mine this morning but already knew about it throught my friend Gwendolyne’s blog. I got two great hats (one of which I’m wearing for chemo in my…
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)….
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…
Terenya & Foamy I did take more photos on our Knit 1 weekend, January 8th, so here are some more. Above is a snap of Terenya with my foam dress form over in the lovely ‘coffee corner’, can you imagine your own little ‘fridge and coffee maker in your studio…. I have to go downstairs,…
Well, a very nice lady in town is moving to Hawaii and apparently won’t be doing any pressing when she gets there. I picked up this wonderful little ‘tool’ which I now cannot imagine being without!! It’s a mesh sheet which you use as a pressing cloth. Now, all my old pressing cloths were in…