I have just completed Capricorn in my Zodiac shawl series. Aquarius is being test knit and Scorpio has been released!!! I just have 2 more to knit – Cancer and Aries. So I am looking for inspiration. Cricket Walker, whom I follow on Facebook, is always good at posting new challenges to get people up […]
I love recycled “things.” My mother was a child of the depression and you never threw anyting away, so when I see some clever way of recycling something, I get really excited. Here is a very cute skirt made from a man’s shirt. Here’s the site with lots of instructions!! Go for it!!! Now if I
Sent to me from a knitter. So I am sending it onto you. Two Choices What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with
Alpacalicious Vest The 18-year-old does the laundry because he is the “clothes horse” in the family. I gave up trying to keep up with his demands for “clean” clothes – every day! – had he never heard of “seasoned jeans”? – so I gave him the task of doing the laundry. I decided not to
Here’s a clever marketing technique. James Emslie, the designer behind Sheepish Knitworks at Uptown Yarns in Courtney BC has 7 designs for some very fashionable hats. When he told me that he had sold 45 patterns (many with yarn, I’m sure) in 32 days, I felt that this must be some sort of record, so
I believe the warm weather has finally arrived!! Here is a lovely picture of another of Lynette (Le Tissier)’s painted yarn projects. It’s the Baltic Sea stole from Fiber Trends – painted. It looks like a flower garden or as Lynette’s says – a meadow!! Lynette explains more in her blog post. I think that
I thought that I would share this photo with you. It’s a picture that was sent to Lynette Meek (Le Tissier Designs) of her winning entry in the Vogue Knitting Live contest last January. This is the wrap and the model is also wearing the matching shift – albeit over several other layers. More pictures
OK, it’s rained for 40 days and I don’t have a boat, let alone an Ark. I also happen to have 3 cats not 2 and they are all neutered so I would not even have a ticket onto an Ark in my area should it happen to float by. But I am not going
I did say earlier that weddings were all about lace and didn’t Kate Middleton look lovely in her lace accented wedding gown! I loved the understated elegance of the whole affair and I loved the fact that there was very little “fuss” made about the fact that Kate is/was a “commoner.” I know that she
Shary Boyle I am fascinated with lace and lovely lace trimmed garments. This is why I was so taken with the work of Shary Boyle who has created, in porcelain, some of the most amazing sculpted figures trimmed in lace. In fact some of Shary’s “people” are actually dressed in real lace that has been
