New Hand Dyed Socks

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)….

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…

I’ve needed to post for days, I got this lovely little camera for Christmas (previous post) and I carry it with me all the time and take pictures when the fancy takes me. The pictures here were taken weeks apart but in the same spirit… I was in a place of peace and quiet. The…

How wonderful for my friend Georgia to give me this little box which she made for me for my birthday. It’s the little ball of wool of polymer clay ‘yarn’ on top complete with tiny knitting needles and real cotton which Georgia managed to actually knit that gets me. I was overwhelmed at it’s ……..

This is being written after the fact as email access was spotty at best while away, but I’m still reaping the benefits of getting out of the studio and far away for a week. I like to call this pic ‘Sox on the Chesapeake’as I took it during our rainy drive over the …. you…

It’s two days until the Maker’s Hand show in Picton starts, it’s three days long with Friday being 10am  to 8pm. That means leaving home (at least I get to sleep in my own bed) at 8:30am and getting back about 9:30pm. If we can catch the right ferry coming home it’s fewer miles and…