Just after I finished editing and putting out my latest tutorial video I wondered where my first video was. I used to carry it around in my laptop bag and play it at shows, it’s 13 minutes of an overview of making a sweater in my studio on my knitting machine.
Well, I found it and managed to get it uploaded to YouTube. It’s not a tutorial but educational, I remember speaking with a woman at the Chicago One of a Kind show where she thought (and she was not alone) that got the fabric from somewhere and created a sweater by cutting and assembling….. I put her straight by showing her the first few minutes of this video and she said she would never assume again!
Also, sometimes I just don’t have the time to take photos and that was the case recently on my second trip to Chicago to conduct a workshop in making one of my jackets. What fun I had and what a lot of work…which I love, my only regret, but couldn’t be helped, was that we couldn’t add an hour or two to the days the Interknit group of Chicago. I’d love to have gone longer to get the ladies further along in their projects.
InterKnit Machine Knitting Guild of Chicago
However, I saw wonderful knitting happening, from some who really knew what they were doing to those who valiantly struggled along with this new (to them) craft….I praise them all!
Mary and me at the end of Navy Pier on a hot Fall day.
Mary picked me up at the airport and we spent the afternoon on Navy Pier, which I had only seen lit up an night before. We went on the Ferris wheel and looked at a wonderful display of stained glass.
Can this be knit?
Speaking of stained glass and women’s work, an excellent read is ‘Clara and Mr Tiffany‘ written by Susan Vreeland from letters written by Clara Wolcott Driscoll, a key woman behind Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass work.
The workroom we used for the Chicago jacket workshop.
Working hard.
Giving a little help.
Thanks Valoria for the photos of the workshop.
Well, speaking of woman’s work, I’m off to my knitting machines!
Whew! I think I can take a break for five minutes in July but May and June were busy months for events and invitations. Our first wedding for one for which I made a Julian Roberts dress…I’ll post about that later. In the arts field my dear friend Georgia Ferrell owner of Artemisia Gallery in…
Whew!!!! Well the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is done and dusted (I’ve shaken off the dust now) and it was a good one. It was good to be back in that exhibition after an absence of four years. I either missed the application deadline or was juried out….but submitting my felteds got me in this…
Garter Carriage Hem Edge More working on the garter carriage, this us the hem edge of a new jacket. I haven’t uploaded it to my web site yet as I haven’t made the buttons….maybe in a day or so so I can photograph the jackets I’ve made when the sun is shining. The jackets I…
Last week my friend Yvonne said I must go downtown to Gwyn Gryffon (needlepoint, knitting and winery) to help her choose a needlepoint for a Winter project. She pops over to my studio in the evening now and again with her lovely yellow lab. We chat while I work so this would be a golden…
Helping the shoppers. It’s been a busy week that actually started on Saturday in Haliburton with a trunk show at the studio of my friend Susan Watson Ellis of Paradigm Designs. We had a nice stream of folk visiting and a book club of ladies from Ottawa! It was a great day spent with Susan….
Once again on our way down to the Outer Banks for that first hit of wind surfing for my other half and some early SUPing for me (stand up paddle boarding) we have to stop at yarn shops. My dear knitting buddy and friend Rose is now living in State College PA so she took…
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Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!
Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!