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!
…….to my business! June 2nd just came and went and I totally for got to celebrate. June 2nd 1982 was the day I went downtown Toronto and registered Carolyn M. Barnett Designs and started the mad knitting career with hand knitting. I’m still kicking! (albeit slowly just now). This charming bit of knitting was what…
Well, I did weave a tangled web the other day, frustrating!!! While knitting a black jacket for a client I noticed the knit was looser and found that the Cannele Mercerised cotton I was using had ‘gone thin’. I’ve had it happen before, and what happens is …. a tiny knot and the next length…
Sandra Whitton Gallery Kingston Ontario Well, here we are at the One of a Kind Chicago and heading in to the first day tomorrow(or should I say.. today)! The set up today was OK though my other half had to sit in the van for hours in a line up waiting to be called to…
Well, just one short week to go and I’ll be on the road to Toronto for the Spring 2013 One of a Kind Show. It feels kind of fresh for me as I didn’t do it last year so have had a break. I think I went down at Christmastime to look but it’s been…
Bridesmaid Dress 1974 Where do I start? That’s what my Dad, my sister and I said when we started to clear out my Mother’s closets. So far Value Village has benefitted by nine bags!!!!! One of the finds was my sister’s bridesmaid’s dress from my first wedding waaaay back in the seventies (yes I’m old…
‘Lei Too Woo!’ I’m in the news again! Though I’m down in North Carolina recovering from several weeks of Spring shows and teaching a Skype with my folks reminded me that someone asked me for a photo and a blurb recently and now I’m featured in our local, and great, magazine: Kingston Life. I’m in…
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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!