I’m excited to be participating in the upcoming Indie Night: a Yarn Sale and Swap that is happening this coming Thursday, September 29 from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Vancouver Alpen Club. I’ll have my full line of patterns
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I’ve been knitting my little fingers to the bone to get ready for a whole series of knitting workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton starting next week. When we moved 1 1/2 years ago, you may recall that all
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I’ll be teaching knitting workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton this summer at the end of July and beginning of August. In order to offer their customers the right mix of classes, RCY has asked them for feedback. What
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I’m slogging away on my Rockin’ Sock Club stranded socks. I say “slogging” only because I’m finding the knitting awkward and I really need to do something about my technique. My hands cramp up and I’m having a hard time
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Another crop of crafters are well on their way to finding their true passion. Noon-hour classes at my son’s elementary school have been keeping me busy. My 7 and 8-yr-old knitters just love the sparkly knitting needles I made for
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Noon-hour classes at Devan’s school have been taking up much of my time and energy. I’m teaching knitting, crochet and jewellery classes four times a week. It’s terrific to see the kids being creative but it has been cutting into
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I’m teaching a whole series of workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton starting next week. There are classes almost every day for two weeks running from August 17th to August 28th at both of their locations. Full details and
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I love having the opportunity to meet knitters face to face and I especially enjoy receiving feedback on my patterns in person. Next month I’ll have that opportunity because I’m participating in the Surrey Museum’s Pic-Knit event. Pack a lunch,
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This was the first time in three years I didn’t participate in the Knit-Out market as part of Victoria’s FibreFest celebrations. It’s always such a mad rush to squeeze everything into the car, hope for a spot on the ferry,
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It’s so rewarding teaching needlecrafts to kids. The school year is almost over and I’ve just finished up the classes. Interestingly the crochet classes were the most popular. We crocheted slippers (for which I don’t have a picture!), hearts, Valentine
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Had a great workshop today with some of the Guild ladies. They asked some really great questions and I’m always so happy to share my knowledge. I recreated several intarsia samples that were lost during our move last fall. I
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I lost all my workshop samples during our move last Fall. I kept on hoping the bag of samples would turn up under a pile of boxes. No such luck. So now I’m reknitting intarsia samples for my workshop this
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