Take some of these: Add a little water: Wait, for the magic to happen, cook with yarn…
A beautiful short film
January 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
Dye studio…
January 22, 2012 By 2 Comments
Well, it could be the new tagline for my basement. Why not? If you are on Pinterest, click the yarn pic below:
Now we’re cooking!
January 19, 2012 By 5 Comments
It’s well below zero degrees (C) outside here in Canada so spending time indoors is a pretty attractive option. Aside from shovelling snow and having fun with sleds, things have been going on in my kitchen… Experiments that involve yarn, cabbages and onions. The preliminary results are above! (Onions win, hands down.) I plan [...]
Great minds think alike?
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Have you ever had what seemed like an original idea… Only to find that very shortly afterwards, someone else came up with something SPOOKILY close to what you had envisioned? I’ve just had that experience with these socks: The colour, the broderie stitch, maybe not the wavy up and down patterns. But still. Weird. I’m [...]
Incredible crochet
January 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This incredible video by Nick Hand shows Shauna Richardson making enormous animal sculptures with nothing more than a crochet hook and a mountain of yarn. If you have ever thought your knitting or crochet project was taking forever to finish, this will put it into perspective! Shauna Richardson: Crochetdermy from Nick Hand on Vimeo. Thanks [...]
A new year, a birthday and silver linings
December 31, 2011 By 5 Comments
Today was my birthday. I am very much looking forward to the coming year. And to be honest, I’m glad to put this last year behind me. I spent a large part of this last year being treated for cancer, and finding out what it feels like to be weak, sick and limited. But I [...]
Fear isle
December 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
I confess I got quite put off doing knitting in multi-colours. It started with a fiddly Debbie Bliss tea cosy- the pattern was an irregular tartan in two colours, and I chose completely the wrong yarn. It was very fuzzy, black and red, and I soon loathed it. I finished one side of the cosy [...]
Knitting up a storm
December 4, 2011 By 5 Comments
Well I’ve not been enjoying having a rotten cold this week. But I have been doing well with my completion project. Here are a few recent finished items: Gauntlets – my own design A ‘wurm’ hat for someone’s Christmas gift… This one is inspired by Maeve, a feisty character created by Elizabeth Cunningham. She has [...]
Master knitter
November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The East Side Culture Crawl in Vancouver was certainly an eye opener. I realised that the area around Prior Street near Commercial was something of a hub for artists, having commissioned work from a jeweller there previously and seen the number of studios operating. But once the doors of all the little studios, some in [...]
