Shes so Crafty......

While I may be in halifax right now I'm anticipating my return to hamilton already. This is for one very exiting reason.....last night , while showing my mother a few local blogs to give her a sense of Hamliton's crafty side, I went to an easy favorite - the lovely white elephant blog Love it a Lot - to find that a yarn shop might *fingers crossed* be opening up on James street. My heart leaped instantly at the sheer joy of being able to walk down the street to pick up high quality yarn. I've been saying to every little old lady who would listen to me for past year since I moved to Hamilton that I want a yarn shop to open up. In the mean time I've been bussing in to the Knit Cafe on Queen st. Toronto to get my fix and ask all the questions that need answers.  I do really love them there ( the little bins they keep stuffed with knitted items as examples under each shelf of yarn are really awesome ) and I did do my research preferring their limited tasteful selection over the chaos of Romni.....but I'd be very glad to go local.
I get the impression that this may be off in the future but time does fly and I'll be glad when this particular future arrives.


I'm wishing all the best to Birch and Sycamore in the Moss Stitch endeavor. great name....
perhaps this means a stitch and bitch may form? the possibility is exiting enough and I'm hoping that it will spur some crafting in me since being home in Halifax gives me the chance to return with my sewing machine and some notes from dye classes taken at NSCAD......


... I wish I was as organized then as I try to be now. Unlike the meticulous Jennie Green who always new the exact measurements and weights! She's taking part in the Lunenburg Fire Hall residency and is shown here spinning flax.

Photo Credits for these pictures goes to Kat Frick Miller who makes these handy milk crate paper weights as well as little sewn "broken" hearts that decorate the coats and bags of almost every halifax art fan wandering around town. One of my favorite of her screen-printed motifs is a raccoon drinking gin. She also paints pictures of the Queen and fancy tea cups.