New Hand Dyed Socks

Well, I know it was planned, Brianne told me so, but it was so significant! Brianne Begani is in sales at the One of a Kind Chicago Show which happens in December and is one of the key contact person at the show. Anyway, Friday…. I’m mired in work, it’s been a funny year. I’ve…

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…

So much has been going on since the Gallery Show but one thing that I have done for the past few years is the local Sheepdog Trials run by Amanda Milliken. It’s at Grasscreek Park where the McLauchlin Woodworking Museum is located. I didn’t get to park my display next to my friends Ann Woodall…

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…

Margaret Gladys Barnett (nee Milburn) 1919 – 2010 This past month has been difficult with my 90 year old Mum was admitted int Kingston General Hospital following another stroke… only this time not just a TIA. It was touch and go for a while then she was asking to go home, chatting and laughing and…

Well, I know it looks in these pics like I’ve been skiving off from the studio but it got so hot I just couldn’t function in the studio anymore the last couple of weeks. I’ve a studio full of windows and a skylight, ceiling fans and a breeze from Lake Ontario a block away but…