keep the gleam in your eye. . . .

add sunshine and knit.  .  .  .  . . . . . . . the beautiful autumn sun is shining on a variety of antique buttons, a birthday gift from Cashmere Washington. I have been using my rarely used egg cups to store them. The smaller version of these shell buttons are the...

runs with scissors. . . .

It’s back to school for the Bigs and the Littles! Our most important work is best done on the floor, it seems! Fall classes started up in the studio on a beautiful sunny Saturday morning in White Rock, where a variety of techniques are being explored. We are...

fairing well . . . . .

Fair Isle students have spent the summer in ‘fair isle school’ at the Working Hands Fibre Arts Studio and at three bags full, working through the process of knitting a traditional fair isle cardigan. Beginning with a gauge and colour swatch, many...

steeking with it. . . .

Living at the bottom of a cliff suits me.  Although the urbanities are not far away, I feel as though the cliff has my back, and keeps things wild and simple.  I am content to get no phone calls, a cliff thing.  Good friends come over, instead.  The huge boughs that...