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I have just spent the last few days mining the V & A’s (Victorian and Albert Museum) knitting section. (see link in “Mrs. Brown” post)  It is AMAZING!! I took this quotation from some text describing a knitted pin cushion (in silk, no less). How many of us have knitted, silk pincushions today? “The Industrial Revolution […]

I always think that Fall (or Spring) are good times to clean out the cobwebs, re-structure, re-think, pull out the map – make sure that we are going in the right direction and so on……  I joined the visa entrepreneurial group on Facebook and came across some really interesting information. One was an article by

….And it’s not over yet for Hazel McCallion. I just had to write this up today – the morning after a rather amazing election in Toronto & surrounding areas.  I am not from Mississauga and I don’t necessarily like Hazel McCallion’s politics – but I love her stamina.  The very idea of running for mayor of Canada’s

This is an interesting article published Oct 11, 2010 in the Globe and Mail. Here is the link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/your-business/grow/customer-experience/why-you-shouldnt-just-reward-your-best-customers/article1753081/ Be sure to click the 3 headings in the middle of the article to read the full article. If you have ever thought of putting in a customer loyalty program, read this first. Even if you

I can’t believe that it’s been almost 3 years since I last posted. Well what can I say? I got caught up in knitting lace and have spent the last 3 years creating about 30 patterns under the nom de plume Queen Anne’s Lace. Here is the link for my lace blog – http://queenanneslaceknitting.blogspot.com./ I’ll

I think I’ll need it; because I have to make this on the right, look something like this – below – with or without the sweater. Well actually I started to assemble my woolly board a.k.a sweater blocker a few weeks ago and found that I was missing 3 wooden knobs – now even an

I know it’s been 3 months since my last post, but I’ve been bitten by this terrible lace knitting bug and literally have not stopped knitting lace since mid June. Well I did stop to fill orders for Infiknit and of course, June and July were very busy months. Then I was on holidays in

About 20 minutes further up the estuary from Dunbar on the Firth of Forth is the lovely seaside village of Aberlady. It is more sand, beach and golf course than the gritty working harbour of Dunbar and so it calls for a gentler design in a sea going sweater. This is also a village from

– sounds catchy maybe there’s a song with that title. 1. When I had decided to knit Dunbar for my husband I remembered that he liked very traditional sweaters that were not too long with ribbed bands at the waist and neck. This should not be too difficult; should it?….I measured the “model” did a

Well… maybe just lengthening it. Let me explain. My third sweater from Knitting in the Old Way is a gansey which I am calling Dunbar – after a fishing village on the south east tip of the Firth of Forth where my husband used to vacation with his parents when he was young. We’ve been