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Found: A Knitting Shop
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…
Sad Note….
I got an email the other day from a client who is a very sweet woman, we came to know each other a bit better over some trials and tibulations with her order and fitting. The last time I saw her we had a lovely chat and she told me she wouldn’t be ordering somthing…
Well, the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour is over, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time parked on my friend Margot’s front lawn. This weekend the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny unlike the rainy weekend we had for the Victoria Day weekend. That weekend I was hanging up my sweaters with frozen…
First 40 Years!
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…
The Makers Hand show.
Makers Hand booth 2011 This weekend was the Makers Hand show weekend in Picton ON. It was a lovely looking show with all of the four dozen or so artisans chosen from the cream of the crop. I was so honoured to return. It also gave me a chance to tweak my booth before the…
My Little Ladies
I just wrote all this, clicked something WRONG and have to write it all over again…sheesh. Well, this is about my day off after the semimar. My other half had spied a yard sale headed ‘Seamstress Quits’ in the paper and was then heading downtown to the Sunday Antique Market. At the former I found…
