New Hand Dyed Socks

Well, it’s raining again but mild enough for me to have my studio dooor open. This means that our cat just wandered up meowing trying to tell me he’s bored and needed a little attention, now he’ll curl up at the top of the stairs and monitor the driveway and his cat door (his friends…

Just a quickie with some news:* I have about a 1/4″ of fuzz on my head. * Three of my garments are being shown in Sandra Whitton Gallery for the next month. Kingston’s Downtown Art Walk is on today until 10pm…. I’m going no matter how cold and snowy! * SWGallery open house December 1…

A couple of Saturday mornings ago I headed down to NY state to the delightful town of Clayton, NY to the Thousand Islands Arts Center to hold another workshop. Once again I had four ladies in the class  in the upstairs class room. They were waiting patiently as I had been delayed at the border…

I can’t believe I ate the whole thing…. well, that’s a bit of what I feel now that the first craft show of the year is over. One of the most fun parts was the Mango martinis and sushi we designers were offered after the opening night fashion show. Here’s a pic of three of…

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…

I recently had a workshop on Cochenille’s Garment Designer pattern making software and one of the attendees, Marthe, was French, (she drove all the way from the other side of Ottawa so she came a long way), and had a little trouble with what I was telling everyone. (June 12th’s Blog: Garement Designer Workshop North)….