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Better colour.  My first effort towards an actual jacket shape using prefelt with silk and rovings. In my last post I had a photo of my first (ever!) dying, it was supposed to be red...but came out an icky pink so I dyed it with blue and finally got something I could live with and also the variation 'splotches I was looking for. I loaded my stuff into the car and did the work over at my

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 Well, Beth Caulfield and I decided to do the Syracuse weekend workshop on the first weekend of January.....I was so glad...do you remember the second weekend?! I'm sure that lake had it's effect. However the first weekend was beautifully mild, dry and sunny, wonderful for a drive south. An engaged group. Beth owns Sheep Thrills in Syracuse, a wonderful yarn shop with great knitters in there

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 For a change, instead of teaching a workshop I took one! Yeah. After weeks of shows and getting a lot of work ready, photographing and listing things on Etsy and such I took a day for myself to learn more about Nuno felting which is something I've wanted to do for ages. I had found Wabi Sabi in Ottawa and found this class in one of the emails they send out with their classes listed. Here

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As most of you must know...it's show season! After returning from Chicago in October I got ready for the Maker's Hand in Picton at the beginning of November then Signatures show - in it's new location - the Ottawa Convention Centre (with it's commensurate costly parking)! My neighbour was the lovely Jennifer of Crumb aprons, we became friends and I look forward to having her as a neighbour in

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Makers Hand booth 2011  This weekend was the Makers Hand show weekend in Picton ON.  It was a lovely looking show with all of the four dozen or so artisans chosen from the cream of the crop. I was so honoured to return.  It also gave me a chance to tweak my booth before the Originals show in Ottawa at the Convention centre next week. A new bamboo shelf for all my scarves helped tidy things up.

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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

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Handloomed Knit Artwear 10/12 by Crafted Spaces | Blog Talk Radio Yvette-Michelle of Crafted Spaces is having me on her web radio on Wednesday for a half hour interview. I'm really excited and looking forward to answering questions from callers.....call in!

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Show time! The Just For Us Originals wearable art show happens this Friday and Saturday, it will be the first show of what I just realized will be a very busy Fall season. The Just For Us Originals is a wonderful show and I'm glad it's found such a glamorous venue at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre. Those huge windows throw such great natural light on all the artists' work. Yesterday I

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1904 Signage on Modern Fuel Gallery Yesterday was September's Artists Round Table meeting and, thanks to Denise Love of Lovetheworld photography, who volunteers at Modern Fuel Gallery in downtown Kingston, that is where we met.   I haven't been to the Modern Fuel for ages and was pleased to see the old building is getting smarter and smarter over the years. When I first moved to Kingston I

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Well, a while back I started to put together my knitting notes and some instructions into a book....hmm still working on that, it'll take a while as there's a lot of writing. Then the software I was using announced they had added 'Notebook' to their stable of formats and after taking a look at a few samples I decided I would give it a try. It really was fun to work at, for a first effort,

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The Gang in the Upstairs Workroom. Well, another polymer clay Button Making workshop at the Thousand Islands Art Center in Clayton NY successfully completed. Not a huge class, I'm used to 10 - 15 but the five lovely ladies I had this year consisted of the three ladies I had last year and two newbies. What a great gang! Newbie work! I just wanted to post some pictures I made of the

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Selection of artwork and refreshments! Well, the hard reality is that we had our second 'Summer' Artists Round Table meeting which means that we are on the wrong side Mid Summer!!! I still feel I haven't begun, still haven't made it out to Sandbanks for an afternoon of fun in the sun (note to self...remedy that).    Colleen Johnson. We had a small but interesting group... Reg Aitken with his

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Well, if you take away the cloud you have the moonlight swim I enjoyed last evening in Kashagawigamog Lake in Haliburton.  Long story but I went up to teach a workshop on Etsy at Flemming College in the stead of my friend Lindsey Fair who's life had just piled up in a heap and I was honoured she asked me to help out. I've taught there for the past two years so I'm no stranger to the area or the

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I'm so happy about our latest Artists Round Table, especially as I actually got it together to send out the emails in time before I was in Fanfayr Arts and Crafts show all weekend (though I did find out I could access the internet on my iPad all weekend in Confederation Basin!!!) I decided to try to follow Lindsey's pattern of having our Summer meetings outdoors and/or at artists' studios. We've

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Well, I'm back from my UK trip which was a huge family gathering so no time to explore any yarn shops...even though my cousin had one she wanted to take me to.....next time! On my return, however I received an email from a friend saying she was coming through Kingston on her way to Rose Haven Farm Store in Picton where Habu Textiles was having a trunk show!!! Habu is a Japanese textile company

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Self portrait at race start. Well, what have I been doing the last few weeks?! I registered for Beat Beethoven here in Kingston last Sunday June 5th where there is an 8k run or the 4k walk/run to be completed before the Kingston Symphony complete playing Beethoven's 3rd symphony Eroica. Once or twice I've stood around to listen to them play but mostly I do the walk. Just under 25 minutes this

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WeWell, the weekend in North Bay is over and I had a great time....and my friend Sonja was such a boon with helping out and just knowing what was needed (...like a coffee!). I didn't take any photos myself but I'll get some from the ladies who took the Button Making Workshop on Saturday and the Machine Knitting workshop on Sunday. However I did take a little video of the ladies on Saturday later

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You MUST, MUST visit this wonderful store in North Bay! It's like a few yarn store I've visited in my travels, the one I hit in Washington DC, Rose Haven Farms in Picton and a few more.... the choice of yarns is fabulous: cashmeres, possum, bamboo, cotton/tencel the list of fibres goes on.  However the kicker of this one is the owner ... Rae Brenne who is only 22! Rae sitting in her new

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Flora & Me Well, look who dropped by my booth at the Ottawa Originals Craft Show last weekend on the first day! A tall woman in track shoes, workout pants and jacket and a back pack...at 79 she is a fine example of how we can be if we take care of ourselves and pursue our passions. Ms MacDonald told me she is doing a lot of work in Afghanistan and will be heading back there next month. Some

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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 am making are mostly from Yeoman Cannele which works beautifully on the GC. It's just so much fun but I do have to

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Garter Carriage Hem Well, I've been enjoying my garter carriage on my Brother knitting machine. I've always wanted one to experiment with the stitches, I love seed and garter stitch on hand knits and wanted to incorporate them into machine knitting. Being a Singer person for more than 25 years it took a while for me to acquire a Brother which is the only machine that has a garter carriage. The

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Sweater Sticks in progress. Whew! What a month. February was a month of workshops. Two machine knitting in my studio which were such fun and two button making, one at Wool Tyme and one with the Kingston Sewing Connection here in town. Working with cane. I had such a blast with all the groups, and great munchies with the KSC!!! Such a great space at the Luteran Church basement, thanks, Jan,

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Friday was the opening evening of the Winter Art Exhibition at the Thousand Islands Arts Centre (Home of the Handweaving Museum) in Clayton, NY. I have taught there and am a member so when the email came in December I decided to make an effort. First, I thought I'd make a jacket then thought better of if, too ambitious for a non juried show, though someone did a crocheted vest. I changed it to a

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Terenya & Foamy I did take more photos on our Knit 1 weekend, January 8th, so here are some more. Above is a snap of Terenya with my foam dress form over in the lovely 'coffee corner', can you imagine your own little 'fridge and coffee maker in your studio.... I have to go downstairs, jump over the snow on my doorstep to get to my kitchen. Terenya's studio is three flights up so we got our

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 Well, we finally did it, we had our Knit 1 weekend. Knit 1 is a design school in Brighton, England where courses can be taken on amazing knitting techniques. My friend Sonja has the series of tutorial books purchased from their web site and four of us got our shorts in a bunch, chomping at the bit to try some of the techniques. We got together at Terenya's house in Niagara on the Lake where she

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'Ruffles' scarf of Merino wool & Silk. Oh, joy for a Thursday morning! Another item added to an Etsy Treasury. They come fast and furious but I don't think any have gone out as worldwide Treasury emails yet but it's so nice to be picked. I'm still working on a Treasury of my own, there are so many wonderful things....must think of a theme. This is one of the scarves I've knit using my Garter

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My display of scarves and wraps. Well, it's over, the last show that I'm doing this Christmas/Fall//Holiday season, The Gift Giving Show at Fort Henry here in Kingston. What a great venue for a craft and art show and sale! The barracks rooms which held three artisans each, we had lots of room to set up and spread out, the lower fort had the artisans spread out through the joined rooms that were

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Mary & Me at 'the Bean' in Millennium Park. Well, I just had a great weekend in Chicago and I was treated royally. I have known Mary Slattery of the Interknits group in Chicago for a few years at Bonnie Triola seminars in Erie PA and then at Inspiration in Cleveland and she vowed to get me to Chicago to meet the group. In the emails and phone calls leading up to my trip Mary arranged to take me

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I know this sounds so silly but I have a new iron....... yeah, big whoop! Well, It's special and I found it (well my husband found it) at a store that sells stuff remaindered from stores such as Sears. He knew my older TFal was giving me a hard time not steaming when I needed for my knitting and brought home another one from Outlet Inc here in Kingston. It didn't work and he checked it and found

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Luddites Smashing a loom, 1812. (Artist Unknown) I got this quote in my Word of the Day email today: After the Luddites, name taken by textile workers in England during 1811-1816 who destroyed machinery that was displacing them. They took the name after one Ned Ludd, whose identity is not clear. Ned Ludd is said to have destroyed, in a fit of insanity, a knitting frame in 1779. In response to the

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'Wallers working on their wall. Just spent the first day of the Rocktoberfest 2010 event in Landon Bay Centre in the 1000 Islands! What a beautiful day!  And what a unique event. I don't know much about 'dry stone wall building' but I've learned a lot today and now I've been looking at the art/craft for years, in North America and Europe. It's ancient and wonderful. Working on the keystone. Here

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Just got back from the Just for Us Originals show and sale of wearables. It was a good weekend, the weather was cooperative in that it was warm and sunny... not keeping women home. The venue - the Mississauga Living Arts Centre - was great and we set up in the foyer/atrium.... three story high windows on the East facing wall. This was my third year at this show and also the third location but

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Wow! All you Estyans out there will know what this means to me, I've been chosen as part of someone's 'Treasury'!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please check out the page, I'm in with some lovely items....I love the rice bowls and the earrings. They chose my Periwinkle SummerWrap of French Mercerized cotton with ribbon trim. So great for the Summer or travelling on cruises to warmer climes.  Let's hope this bodes

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 Peter out front...with my 'little bread truck'. Well, I finally made it to 15 Gower Ave in Toronto, the home of Sew Knit Serge owned by Peter Smith. I've know Peter since I met him years ago at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition)...if memory serves, back in the '80's. He had both sewing machines and knitting machines on display in the Better Living Building (I think...its been so long) where

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What a weekend was last weekend! It started on Thursday when I was part of a four artisan delegation who set up in Brockville ON at 55+ Canada Games. We set up in St Lawrence Park overlooking the St Lawrence river and 1000 islands, it was beautiful, I set up my knitting machine and got some knitting done. And though it was rainy I met some amazing people, including Moses (Zoomer) Naimer, my

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 My second year of Haliburton teaching and I'm just recovering from the work, having every minute filled, the energy of my ladies,  not to mention the loading, unloading, loading and unloading the car with knitting machines, tool, ironing board, mannequins and so on. The drive is always beautiful.... unless you drive up after a two day show which came after a week of moving a family member and

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 For Machine Knitters Well, this has been too long coming, I shot the stills about 18 months ago and Dad and I shot the video last Summer. I took a while to get it edited then the push was on for the end of April when I was demoing in Purls of Joy in Minneapolis and in Cardiknits Academy in Hamilton.  Sold lot of them and hope to see more neat buttonholes around.  Stitch arrangement and division

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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 and on my second husband!) It's sooo tiny, I couldn't get it done up on my size 10 form for the

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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 recognizing my Dad, my sister and me.  I wasn't here but on vacation at the time after a long and

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Long time no post....lots going on in my family as I have senior parents and am spending a lot of time with them these days.   However I did participate in the Up The Garden Path studio tour the last two weekends in May.  My wraps were selling so I am making more for the Art Among the Ruins (June 19th) and Fanfayr (July 2, 3 & 4th) coming up over the next few weeks. Also some to put in the

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 Manteo, Roanok Island NC. I knew there was a yarn shop around the Outer Banks, North Carolina, and I remembered one from years ago, the last time I went over to Roanok Island and it's main town, Manteo. Fine Yarns at Kimbeeba is in what used to be an auto shop and under part of the floor (I learned to day) is the mechanic's 'ditch'!  (I know there is a better word for it than that).  Anyway, I

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 '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 glad company - Marney McDiarmid, Richard White, John D Williams, Penny Gorman  and my lovely

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/ Well, my Laptop Cozy for Kollaboration is done, I think I was the last person to turn in a project. I'm really pleased with collaboration with Trevor Waurechen and his Fossil illustration. Neither of us had any clue to what our link would bring forth. I rather like the colours I chose and hope that the Ramie lining keeps its anti static that it seems to have. No scientific data however!

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When you visit a city for a workshop, you never get to really see the town, unless you meet a wonderful woman like Nancy. I sat next to her at Friday's lunch and we got chatting. She has lived and worked in Minneapolis for years working, I believe, with museums among other things. I asked her what I should try to do the hours I have on Sunday before my flight home and she asked me what I was

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Wha????  Took my wrist supports off late, washed them and three hours  (3am) later got up to hit the road for the Syracuse airport to get to here...Mounds View Minnesota.  The supports were still wet so I thought sticking them in the air vents while the warm air blows out might work, it did, they dried in no time!! The Ottawa Originals show is over and after working on Kollaboration for an hour

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 KAC Juried Arts Salon submission. Well, it's that time again. One of a Kind show and Originals coming up.  I think I have had the loooong Winter to get lots of stuff done, new experimenting with different machines, textiles, shapes yada, yada, yada!  No such luck!!! Here I am on the bring of another show/workshops season and it seems I've done nothing!  All the new designs and ideas I have been

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I'm here in Toronto at the Ontario Crafts Council at the Etsy Workshop and Trunk Show which was organized by my friend Lindsey Fair!  I just learned a bit more about having my shop show up on my blog!  Here it is .... I hope. Now I had better get back to listening! new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(5345018, 'shop','thumbnail',2,1).renderIframe();

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My dear friend Deirdre way out there on the East coast passed this on to me and I just love it! Knitting machines must have been used....I hope the knitter(s) were justly remunerated.  Enjoy.

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Just how cute is this little jacket? While slaving away over a hot knitting machine, yesterday, my friend Rose appeared, after much travel, including her native South Africa, bearing gifts.  Her grandmother had passed away and among her things were knitting patterns from the '40's (I couldn't find a date) and this is from the Vogue Knitting Book, Number 41.  I just can't pass up old patterns

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   This little one I was knitting this one while I was at the One of a Kind Christmas in Toronto  (...trying to avoid US economy!) trying to get it done in time for my stepdaughter's Toronto baby shower.  It was the Yoda coat and a little hat and some booties worked from some wonderful Merino wool....well..... The intended 'victim' of more of my hand knitting was born February 16th weighing in at

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 I got this from my felter friend Andrea Graham, I love it! Enjoy.

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Happy New Year. We're well into it now and resolutions should be well and truly broken... I know mine is but I'll persevere. My sister found me this beautiful cup and saucer at Teaopia (where I've drunk a few Rooibos latte's), it's made to hold both the beverage and a sweetmeat..... there goes my effort to give up sugar! She know I like to take tea and a bicky up to my studio. Polymer clay

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 Margot and me outside our hotel... The Gershwin. This is what my old college roommate wrote in a Christmas card a couple of decades ago!  I do hope that everyone did have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays (to be PC).  After shows, my Mum's 90th birthday and a flying visit to New York City I wasn't ready.... consequently I will be sending my cards out sometime late January!  View from

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Felted collar in situ. It's been a very busy month since the build up to the One of a Kind Show, it was nice to be back in Toronto for the Christmas edition for the first time in more than a decade. I had been doing the Ottawa Ottawa Originals in past Decembers until the Chicago OOAK started in 2001, then it was there (except for my '07 chemo year) that we went.  Here is Joey

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Well after an evening of felting then a day or claying I'm worn out and still two days to  go until the show. This is a detail of the back of the collar I made, this is the centre back that you'd see if you were standing behind the wearer. Here is the set laid out on my work table where I left it overnight to dry after tugging it into shape. It's going to be a shawl collar and the little

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As I knit my way towards the One of a Kind show and Sale ~ in Toronto this year, first five days ~ the phone rings....is it library telling me I haven't returned a book on CD (they found it eventually), a bill I've overlooked or good news? Great news, I'm back teaching another week at Haliburton Summer School for the Arts next Summer.  It'll be another great week of Machine Knitting and I'm so

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It's two days until the Maker's Hand show in Picton starts, it's three days long with Friday being 10am  to 8pm. That means leaving home (at least I get to sleep in my own bed) at 8:30am and getting back about 9:30pm. If we can catch the right ferry coming home it's fewer miles and a shorter drive.... otherwise it's the highway. Anyway, here are pictures of my first felting efforts for collars

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 Why ouch? Because I'm hurting in more ways than one and - forgive me - but I need to vent. My wrist hurts, it's De Quervain's tenosynovitis and its in my right hand. It can be cured...if I stop using my right hand for a while....I'm getting symptoms now in my left hand. Sheesh... where do I go from here? I've thought of getting a firmer wrist brace that I can't take off for a while but that

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Just For Us Originals - my booth. It's been a busy few weeks recently, on returning from Cleveland I had to prepare for the Just for Us Originals a wearable art show in this year in Oakville tacking onto the coattails of the World of Threads show. Unfortunately I was unable to see any of the World of Threads but as it happens every two years I'm bent on seeing it in 2011, I had colleagues

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I've been having  fun with my gant money, it's enabled me to take classes, buy materials and do things I didn't think I would be able to do for a long time.  Spending a day with Andrea Graham in he studio felting was wonderful and really opened a brand new door for me creatively. Here is a photo of my second felted piece, working with prefelt and some fun stuff from around Andrea's studio.  Here

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  This lovely puddy tat was captured taking his afternoon (and if I know cats - his morning and evening..) nap under a price tag of $5. This was at a fruit and veg stand on our way to Picton one sunny afternoon and we stopped to pick up some fresh produce. The whole time we were there he never moved a wisker! Anyway, instead of hitting the beach my DH decided it was ok for him to hang around

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  Dr. Sue Hendler On Monday evening, my neighbour and aquaintance Sue Hendler passed away after a long battle with breast cancer.  This year my sister Judith (Judi to the rest of the world) and I will walk on 'Sue's Care Team' in the CIBC Run for the Cure here in Kingston on October 4th.  With too many commitments in my own life I was unable to do any shifts in Sue's home but I volunteered up my

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Yesterday I was telling my other half how I just wanted to create new things and not have to get my few remaining orders finished - there's little creativity in following orders. Anyway, while attending to email and finishing my morning tea in bed he brought up the post and there was a brown envelope from the OAC....... It seemed full of stuff and I've had rejection letters before and my discs

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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 a great opportunity for a workshop in a rural area.Here is most of the group, including Margot (

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One of the first things I do each morning is look at my Yarn Harlot 'page a day' calendar which I got indirectly from Stephanie via her Mum and my neighbour (bless them all). Today she talked about knitters watching fewer foreign films because of the subtitles and how knitters prefer dramas, more listening and less looking. YES!!! For years I've been so disappointed when my husband suggests

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David, daughter Claire, a friend and Donna (Dave's wife)My neighbour Dave More has written his second book of an historic trilogy ~ 'The Lily and the Rose'. What has that to do with knitting...not much but that for this launch he invited six creative friends to exhibit at Historic Fort Henry here in Kingston along with launching his book. As one of those six I took my work up to the fort on

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Andrea's JacketI'm overdue in posting these pictures of Andrea Orpana (my intermediate student) and her wonderful jacket made in my Haliburton class.Jacket BackShe spent a lot of time afterwards finishing her beautiful creation. One thing I want Andrea and other machine knitters to become comfortable with is working in the loose ends of yarn as you go as much as you can. It becomes second nature,

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The front doors of Flemming College"Within These Walls The Walls Disappear"I've been back from my first whole week in Haliburton teaching Machine Knitting. Unfortunately I found that life goes on when you're out in the country, driving through rain storms to the BBQ's, hot tubbing and lake swimming. The work I left behind divided into the baskets according to the requirements of each order...

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Well, my friend Margot Miller in Rockport Ontario has grabbed me some time at the Old Schoolhouse there. The Rockport Rec Centre as it is also known, is booked for Saturday August 22nd 10am - 4pmfor aButton Making WorkshopWorking with Polymer Clay and a package of tools to get you started and a tile on which to work and some clay in various colours you will learn how to work with polymer clay

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I'm off to Artemisia in Westport to restock some items as they do seem to sell well there, then my friend Georgia (framer and 1/3 owner at Artemisia) and I are off to Perth to visit Janie Hickman at her yarn store JanieHKnits as she's having a sale.I didn't make any decent money at Fanfayr this past weekend but I will always squeeze out a buck or two to add useful stock to my cache! ......I'll

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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 of yarn on the cone is finer than the proper gauge and the knitting is looser. It's rather like suddenly

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Summer is here, and the spirea in front of our house has had it's day but like lilacs isn't it beautiful for the short while it's in bloom.Two weekends ago I took my Mum and Dad for drive out to Newburgh for the Art Among the Ruins, a beautifully set small but well attended craft and art show in the country. I had never been and we all loved it. I'd love to do it next year if Steacy has room for

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While away on vacation, I was doing hand knitting, stocking up on socks and knitting some hand knit flowers for a new Wrap I now do. Sometime before heading out I was in the LCBO and picked up one of their hand picnic baskets which fold flat and have a zip pocket inside and a zip lid. Sooo cute I bought a pink one too.... they come in four colours. Well, my balls of sock yarn have overflowed

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I'm so excited about this recent event, it is my first 'award', well a scholarship really, in my twenty seven years! I did get honourable mention Fibre at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition my second year there with a small check and a large glass of wine, but this one was got for me through applications. My friend and colleague Lindsey Fair has made herself grant app writer and for a small fee

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Two of my three exhibit items.Thursday evening ... downtown Kingston, Ontario .... damp, warm and raining .... buy Kingston Glass Gallery and Studio is hopping! The second 'Art After Dark' gallery tour is well under way and I'm exhibiting three items among the work of wonderful colleagues. Laura Donefer's glass, her mother Vera's paintings, jewelry by Maggie Axford, pottery by Jane Thelwell and

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The April Fool's Day display at this year's Spring OOAKSurely while I'm on vacation I can find time to post. Taking my laptop with me (and printer this time) to the rental by the shore with friends I can keep up with my email. This is good as I am getting emails about a) One of a Kind Chicago application deadline (I sat up until midnight editing new photos and digging out my credit card for the

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Long time no blog, it's been a busy Spring so far and now that I've been on vacation for jus a little over a week I can pull myself together and post anew.On one of my Spring power walks that I managed to squeeze in between the One of a Kind and Originals shows I noticed to my delight that the 'Scilla House' is still earning it's name. Long story about this lovely house built in the late 1800's

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Show time just a week away, this time next week I'll be running around like that headless chicken trying to get everything up from the basement, out from my studio and packing to go to the One of a Kind show Spring '09!!!! Way too soon in my book even though it is a week later than usual.... I hope that means some different folk will visit that can't make it at the end of March.It's been a busy

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Down in the DumpsI've been meaning to post for weeks now but my six weeks of healing and down time have passed and I still need another. Physically I'm healed enough to start working again, I'm knitting wool as I don't know if I can tackle cotton which is harder to use pulling and pushing the machine carriage. Anyway, I've suddenly found I'm in the dumps, got that 'well that's over how do I

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Photo: Stagg PhotoWell, it's been an Up and Down time since my last post, that was the day before I went in for the big op, the bilateral M and reconstruction. A down? As I mentioned to the lovely male nurse who escorted me into the OR too bad I got this all set up before I could get Liam Neeson to come and kiss the 'girls' goodbye! As I lay on the narrow table being hooked up (and not in the

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Well, now that we're into the new year I got to do something I've been looking forward to ..... sorting my 2008 calendar!I had the Stitch 'n' Bitch Page a Day calendar last year and had fun every day peeling off for a new hint, tip, factoid, pattern, info on a knitting event and so on. Now that they were all torn off I separated them into their respective piles so I can refer to them easily, then

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Well, thought I'd better bank out another post, the last one for 2008, as the last few weeks have been very busy for me and everybody I know. Though the shows are over for another year, it's more than past time to look at next years shows and mostly the cheque writing part ..... I'm doing my Scarlet O'Hara bit and thinking about it 'tomorrow'. Meanwhile, as you see by this stunning photo of me

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The Chicago One of a Kind Show and Sale is over for another year and we got back on Monday after an uneventful drive through Michigan (no lake effect blizzards), and a pleasant but short stopover in Battle Creek. I did learn that apparently two men - a native and a white man I believe - had an argument by a creek and marked it on the map as the place the battle occurred, hence the name.Here I'm

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Sandra Whitton Gallery Kingston OntarioWell, 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 a loading (unloading) dock. Meanwhile I had registered us, picked up name tags, checked my booth 8-4129 to see if my UPS shipment

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Out and AboutJust last week I attended the opening of my friend and colleague Delvalle's new gallery location. Yes everyone was there, here in Kingston you run into everyone at gallery openings - both artists and patrons - and it's a great way to stay connected and in touch with the scene.Here she greets guests.Delvalle had a lovely spot on a corner just a block over from the main drag Princess

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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 opportunity to work on a project through the long evenings when I'm knitting my way through my orders. She

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Georgia and me in our witch's hats!!!! Boo!(note the tulle w/spiders over my face)Well, what a weekend. It was the Town and Country Studio Tour in and around Kingston and though I didn't think I had done the prep I would have liked it went well. The weather cooperated and sales were made.I have been mired in getting orders done in the past few weeks since returning from England and concentrated

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These three young women are Guelph uni students and the one in the scarf is my lovely niece Sarah at the Run for the Cure. Though her Mum and I didn't walk this year as planned (stuff got in the way) Sarah went out and don't you just love her outfit?Good on ya Sarah, Mum and I will get in shape for next year.Love, AC.

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I just thought I had better put this little bit of business online, that the Beach Studio Tour that I founded back in 1994 has invited some of the original artists to have some of their current work displayed in the Beach prior to this Fall's tour. DeClute real estate offices 2241 Queen St E – just West of Hammersmith and E of Wineva, south side of Queen Street is the location for those

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Long time since I have posted here. I'm currently in Britain's North with my parents on their 60th wedding anniversary trip, long awaited and can't believe we're here. Surrounded by cousins who are no longer the little kids I had to play with when young (I'm the eldest) they are great middle aged adults we've grown even closer to.Staying in Newcastle upon Tyne we spent our first day wandering

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I had to give up going to Cleveland for Inspiration '08, the machine knitting seminar there as I'm off to England with my parents in five days! Though I really missed the weekend with my friends, getting together with other machine knitters and getting inspired and learning new things from people like Iris Bishop I got to be home for the 2nd annual Portsmouth Village Yard Sale.We dearly hoped

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'Sway' c 2000On a recent trip to the beach at the Sandbanks in Prince Edward County we planned a stop in Picton to acquaint ourselves with some of the new shops. A comment on a friends ace leather jacket led me to City Revival, a huge and wonderful use clothing store that is like a recycling Holts or Creeds!The clothing there is very chic and recycled out of Toronto and a good place to keep your

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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 my eyes closed. However I just finished a lovely book which I'm sure most of you have already read.... The Friday

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So much has been going on since the Gallery Show but one thing that I have done for the past few years is the local Sheepdog Trials run by Amanda Milliken. It's at Grasscreek Park where the McLauchlin Woodworking Museum is located.I didn't get to park my display next to my friends Ann Woodall from Wool Tyme or Jane Thellwell from Anglin Bay Pottery but at the other end of the tent next to where

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Andrea, Me, Jannis, Ann, Sandra & Rachel (missing: Rebecca)Wednesday evening was my debut as a gallery show curator. I was so nervous but thrilled to pull together five women artists over the past few months to show our individual work in a show I call 'Women's Work'.The work represents both their work which, of course, is women's (art)work and the work of women in what these pieces represent.

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A while back I wrote about polymer clay and tool handle making. I think there was an article in Knitwords about same so I had to add my two cents worth.A few years ago I taught Button Making at the Cardiknits seminar and make a latch tool which I had made out of a broken knitting machine needle. I had two full classes and a very busy day with clay and tools flying everywhere and while packing

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~My Dad~Just a quickie to celebrate my Dad's 60th anniversary as a doctor. He's still going strong at 83 with four days a week at his office helping people with Hypnotherapy.Dr. Edgar A. Barnett went into this about thirty years ago full time after a lifetime of fascination with Mesmer, hypnosis etc and the mind's connection to the physical body. He has helped many people including the police.

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Another Summer show over, barreling towards the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in Toronto in a week... I'm in Booth 539 Turquoise Doing a show on home turf is nice, sleeping in your own bed, having friends to stay and staying up late talking of all sorts of things that you never get a chance to because you're working so hard and live to far away. My friend Jannis nearly nodded off into her

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Overlooking Confederation Park, Kingston It's Summer, how do I know? I haven't the time to plant any more flowers because I must get ready for my two Summer shows.First coming up this weekend is Fanfayr here in Kingston. I have done this one for years...since the last time I had short hair (early '80's), that's how long this show has been on. We get to sleep in our own bed and my other half can

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