by Venessa | Jan 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
What to get for an 18 year old labrador. . . . anything she wants! but we’ll start with a new puffy pillow. . . . . and a great Beatles tune. . . . sing along and shake it!. . . .Happy Birthday Lila!
by Venessa | Jan 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
A beautiful morning, and a fresh start for our new studio location. The Fiddlehead Mittens program began today and will run through April. Students began with an I-cord cast on, then swatched in the fair isle pattern, working on the right side only, cutting at the...
by Venessa | Dec 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Venessa | Dec 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Venessa | Nov 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today’s lace class will be a sparkling, festive, fanciful event! Brave knitters will come from as far away as Sechelt, Granville Island, Port Moody, Coquitlam, Surrey, and White Rock. We will warm our knitting fingers by the fire, eat fresh baked muffins, sip...
by Venessa | Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Voices whisper in the trees, but. . . . . . . . . . hello! what’s this? May your Hallowed Evening be creepy and filled with laughter. . . . . . . . . . . “Tonight is Halloween!” poem by Dexter Kozen
by Venessa | Oct 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Venessa | Sep 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Venessa | Aug 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Venessa | Aug 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
