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Knitters Jamboree & Mother’s Day!
Well, drove three hours to get to the Knitter’s Jamboree in Mississauga …. all the machine knitting vendors (and more) in one place for a day. When your sewing machine breaks down or you need some bits you head to your local sewing machine seller. With knitting machines it’s usually time spent on the internet…
Tools!!! Gott ’em!
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…
The End of Cotton Yarn?
That’s the question I ask many of my clients or they ask me. As time goes on and my hands get older there won’t be a choice, using cotton on the knitting machine, creating jackets with shaping means using multi prong tools to move stitches in and out creating vertical darts. Sure I like the…
Steph’s Amazing Needles
Just so cool… my neighbour’s sister in England has been doing some fibre art/knitting/college project thingy in ‘Here Gallery‘ called, I think, ‘Twisted: Knitting on the Edge’ in Bristol that I just find neat to look at. I got sent some pictures of her giant needles and of Steph working that I just had to…
Sticktoitiveness in Kingston.
Out for breakfast after a week of ‘cleansing’ (you know… no chocolate, booze, coffee, preservatives etc and for two days, no solids) we went to our fave place in downtown Kingston: Morrison’s. We got a window seat across from the back of City Hall where the new outdoor skating rink is and there is always…
Weekend Machine Knitting Workshop
OK, too long since I posted, not that I haven’t had anything happen, just, perhaps, too much happening that kept me away from this segment of cyber space! I had a weekend workshop in my studio and though I only had two who could make it on that particular weekend, and I like to have…
