Recently at a studio open house I ran into a friend who had a two day old duckling with her.
If staying home isn’t an option on a sunny Sunday, take jr with you in your latest felted bag!!! Here he’s surfaced for refreshements!
Just ducky!
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…
I just renewed my loan on this book, I really want to keep it but the library wouldn’t be too pleased. I’ll have to search for it as it has lots in it about the Wool Movement of the mid 1800’s. The illustration is from a company started in 1846 to sell hand knitted underwear….
That usually means going away and doing just what you do in your everyday life….well I sort of just did just that this past weekend but as my shows are over for the Summer it was different! I stood in for a friend. Friday afternoon was spent in a show tent in a park, something…
Well, I know it looks in these pics like I’ve been skiving off from the studio but it got so hot I just couldn’t function in the studio anymore the last couple of weeks. I’ve a studio full of windows and a skylight, ceiling fans and a breeze from Lake Ontario a block away but…
Thank heaven for junk or ‘yard sale’ stores and the husbands who frequent them. My husband goes out, I don’t know where he is (he works at home) but he comes home with the faint odor of… no, not perfume, not booze but mildew from rooting through these establishments! Today he came home with a…