New Hand Dyed Socks

A few days ago I realized that today marks the day 24 years ago I walked in to a building on University Avenue, Toronto, to register my business. Whew! I’ve been doing this a long time, not done yet, still a long way to go, many more designs to knits, avenues to take them. The…

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…

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…

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…

Handloomed Knit Artwear 10/12 by Crafted Spaces | Blog Talk Radio Yvette-Michelle of Crafted Spaces is having me on her web radio on Wednesday for a half hour interview. I’m really excited and looking forward to answering questions from callers…..call in!

Summer is here, and the spirea in front of our house has had it’s day but like lilacs isn’t it beautiful for the short while it’s in bloom. Two weekends ago I took my Mum and Dad for drive out to Newburgh for the Art Among the Ruins, a beautifully set small but well attended…