Grabbing a bite to eat before last week’s guest gig my friend Sonja pulled some great things out of her purse …. more wire knits. Here are the little jacket, blue evening dress and gold shrug with pearl beads. I photographed them on a paper napkin so they’re not great but I tweaked them so they’d stand up.
Aren’t they cute?
As most of you must know…it’s show season! After returning from Chicago in October I got ready for the Maker’s Hand in Picton at the beginning of November then Signatures show – in it’s new location – the Ottawa Convention Centre (with it’s commensurate costly parking)! My neighbour was the lovely Jennifer of Crumb aprons,…
As I was under the weather recently, my dear friend Rose took the oportunity to send me a card that she had purchase a year ago. She had waited all this time for the right time. It is soooo cute. A knitting bag made of patterned wallpaper (I think), with wire handles and knitting needles,…
Margot and me outside our hotel… The Gershwin. This is what my old college roommate wrote in a Christmas card a couple of decades ago! I do hope that everyone did have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays (to be PC). After shows, my Mum’s 90th birthday and a flying visit to New York City…
I accompanied my friend Anne Woodall of Knit Traders wool shop to Toronto yesterday for a Pro Knitters meeting (great by the way…I’ll post about that later) and while she lunched with her offspring I did my fave thing …. wander around downtown TO. I went for dyes and silk and also to pick a…
…….to my business! June 2nd just came and went and I totally for got to celebrate. June 2nd 1982 was the day I went downtown Toronto and registered Carolyn M. Barnett Designs and started the mad knitting career with hand knitting. I’m still kicking! (albeit slowly just now). This charming bit of knitting was what…
Well, Sunday at the Run for the Cure was a great day, I ended up eating chicken breast for supper and started to feel good as I usually do heading into every third Monday – day four after chemo…..then Monday arrived and everything fell apart again. I felt I had had chemicals poured into me,…