New Hand Dyed Socks

Recently at a studio open house I ran into a friend who had a two day old duckling with her. If staying home isn’t an option on a sunny Sunday, take jr with you in your latest felted bag!!! Here he’s surfaced for refreshements! Just ducky!

  This lovely puddy tat was captured taking his afternoon (and if I know cats – his morning and evening..) nap under a price tag of $5. This was at a fruit and veg stand on our way to Picton one sunny afternoon and we stopped to pick up some fresh produce. The whole time…

On our way home from vacation we hit Williamsburg and I found a knitting store. We managed to get to Knitting Sisters before they closed for the day. It is a wonderful store and they had just finished a workshop and the store was full of mad knitters with one husband sitting quietly in their…

Happy New Year. We’re well into it now and resolutions should be well and truly broken… I know mine is but I’ll persevere. My sister found me this beautiful cup and saucer at Teaopia (where I’ve drunk a few Rooibos latte’s), it’s made to hold both the beverage and a sweetmeat….. there goes my effort…

I have started this new year off in the grip of a burning desire to hand knit. I still machine knit every day as I have work piled up to get done for my clients but I love the hand knit look and some of the styles that are out to knit. I buy hand…