Thursday, May 31, 2012

Not yarn related but...

My husband owns the UK Shoppe here in Peterborough and in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, he is hosting a great little celebration at his shop this weekend.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Tessa Mittens

Last winter, a co-worker asked me to make her mittens that would fit her small hands. I found a few patterns that would work, but I didn't like the construction. I'd recently been making socks toe-up, two-at-a-time, so I figured that I could make mittens the same way.

I present you with the Tessa Mittens...
You can find the pattern here.
Also, I will have a similar pattern, coming soon. Rainbow Brite would be proud!

I've Ordered Business Cards!

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Friday, May 04, 2012

Celebrating the Yarn Community in Peterborough

The second annual Fibre Arts festival happens this weekend at the Peterborough Public Library. It runs from 10-4pm and only cost $2. There will be a ton of demonstrations and vendors...from knitting to papermaking, from rug hooking to tatting.  Come and enjoy the amazing community of fibre enthusiasts found in the Peterborough area!
Also, coming up in June is the World Wide Knit in Public Day, which is a week-long event running from the first Saturday to the second Sunday in June. This year, in Peterborough, please join us at Millennium Park from 10-2pm for an afternoon of knitting, crocheting, weaving, spinning....fibre arts in general.
Bring a lawnchair, your knitting, some snack and enjoy another day of fibrey-goodness!

Monday, March 26, 2012

First Time Ever!

We have nothing scheduled for tonights Kniterary Night...we 'll be sitting, knitting, chatting and laughing, as usual! We will do a round-table show-and-tell of recently completed and current projects, as well as discuss upcoming Kniterary Nights.

See you there!

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Happy Anniversary, Kniterary

This past month, November, our Kniterary Nights at the Peterborough Public Library turned 2!  Erica Patterson, an EA at my high school, helped us out by creating this amazing knitting cake.  Yes, those were real knitting needles!  The yarn balls had lovely spheres of cake inside!

Monday, November 14, 2011

Kniterary Night: November 2011

Happy 2nd Anniversary, Kniterary!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

WWKIP - Peterborough

Great Garale Sale Find

Went garage saling with mom last weekend in Campbellford and found this awesome makeup/jewelry tote box.  I knew it would be perfect for a knitting notions organizer and it is...

 
Which means now I have some makeup bags and notions boxes, and a handful of crochet hooks, up for grabs...

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

First Project for "Diana Prince"

Although this may not seem to be fit for Wonder Woman, this basket is just the kind of a project that "Diana Prince" would use in her quest to save the world!

From the meager beginnings of a ball of garden twine...
to the important stature of knitting bicycle basket...
 But we must wait a little longer, for the sewn liner and handles.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

More Markers...

I've got some new markers done.  I'm taking them to my knitting group tonight, but they'll also be available at Needles in the Hay, in Peterborough ($7 set).  Some are for crocheting or knitting, some are just for knitting.








Monday, April 11, 2011

Peterborough's First Annual Fibre Arts Festival

This past Saturday was the first annual Fibre Arts Festival at the Peterborough Public Library.  Demonstrations and vendors in various fibre arts, we also had two great presentations by local artist, Sandi Luck.






Mary Charles felting

Tatting and knitted beading

Closeup of gorgeous tatted Queen

Weaving

Hand embroidery

Quilting 
Dyeing





Rughooking