Just a quickie. I went from a beautiful sunrise just as I boarded the Dash 8 in Palm Springs, I got to watch the sun come up from behind the mountains…. to deicing in Washington. The bright light from above is the man with the ice scraper!
What do you get when you invite a friend to your house who is building a home? Brownies tied up with some of the cord they used to haul something up to a second floor. I did ask if they needed it back…. did what they have left still reach the ground? They assured me…
Well, cruisng the library for something else I found a wonderful book in the business section: ‘Shops and Shopping 1800 – 1914’. Yes, it really is a book about what it says. I’ve just dipped into it so far but I’ve decided that I have to find a copy for my own library in my…
Image from the site “A Good Yarn: Knitting Blogs” I don’t read much with my eyes, waaaaay to tired when I get to bed and am usually working on a web site, blog or email when I finally nestle against my pillows. I usually ‘read’ my literature through my ears via my iPod ….. with…
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…
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…
Well, it finally got done, my workshop for Cochenille’s Garment Designer application for patternmaking for knitters and sewers. In attendance were three wonderful women (pictured, above, in my studio) Sonja, Marthe and Cathy. It was ‘Ladies… start your laptops’ and away we went. This was a workshop for newbies who had purchased the software but…