New Hand Dyed Socks

Well, it’s Studio Tour time here again in Kingston and there is a quiet spot after our lunch so I thought I’d post. Bucketed down this morning and we despaired having anyone brave the elephants to come out…. then we found ourselves knee deep in visitors. Now the sun is out and a much nicer…

Yipeeeee! What a wonderful Spring Sunday yesterday, my other half and I spent the day working in the studio (me, getting ready for the Spring shows), wiring up the house for our new broadband and reaching out an upstairs window to try to shift the sheet of snow and ice on the studio roof before…

Well, there’s another workshop done, and a lot of fun it was too. Two of the participants had been here before but the third who had not is a seasoned knitter and did a great job. The technicality wasn’t the problem there but creating a garment that would fit and suit her. With the help…

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…

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…

Here is a happy picture of three happy artists who have just delivered their work to the Kingston Public Library for the Kingston Arts Council’s 6th annual Juried Art Salon. It’s an annual wonderful collection of fine art, sculpture, mixed media and so on from artists and artisans in the Kingston area and who are…