Just so cool… my neighbour’s sister in England has been doing some fibre art/knitting/college project thingy in ‘Here Gallery‘ called, I think, ‘Twisted: Knitting on the Edge’ in Bristol that I just find neat to look at. I got sent some pictures of her giant needles and of Steph working that I just had to share.
Amazing when you let your imagination just run away with you… in knitting week in Britain!!
My first post… hmmm. It’s four days and counting to the drive to Toronto to set up my booth for the One of a Kind Show Spring 2006 and it’s the frantic time. I had soooo many plans for over the Winter, give a one day seminar on the software I use to create 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…
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…
Well, the Up the Garden Path studio and garden tour is over, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time parked on my friend Margot’s front lawn. This weekend the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny unlike the rainy weekend we had for the Victoria Day weekend. That weekend I was hanging up my sweaters with frozen…
Yes, I know, sad title for this post really but applicable. Actually got out of the studio Saturday evening and went to a book launch to support our neighbour David More who has just finished his first novel ‘The Eastern Door’. After wine and nibbles, catching up with some old friends and much book signing,…
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…