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Getting Warmer
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…
Memoirs of a Knitter’s Vacation
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…
The End of Cotton Yarn?
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…
Buttons & Beyond….
Materials bag with some of the tools, clay and instructions. I can’t believe that August 22nd has come and gone. That was the day for the Rockport Development Group’s Button’s & Beyond, a polymer clay workshop taught by me, and set up by my friend Margot Miller of Rockport ON. Funded by OMAFRA it was…
Found: A Knitting Shop
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…
Further to Day One.
Ok, so now I have a photo. It’s me in my booth just as opening night is getting rolling. I think I have my act together! My other half is nowhere to be found at this point (I use a tripod & 10 second delay to take the pic) but it’s nice and quiet… before…