workshops

… and then …

… and then …

I had great intentions of blogging more regularly throughout the summer …

… and then we bought a house …

… and then I had to pack up all the yarn and our other “things” …

… to get our apartment staged and cleaned to sell …

… and then we went on vacation …

… and then we sold our apartment (while we were on vacation–how great is that!) …

… and then I taught a week’s worth of classes (the owners, staff and students at River City Yarns are fantastic) …

… and then I went to Sock Summit

… and so it goes!

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Workshops in Edmonton

Workshops in Edmonton

Happy belated Canada Day! We had a nice relaxing family time that included a play in the park and grilled salmon for dinner.

From July 26 to August 2 River City Yarns in Edmonton is sponsoring a whole series of my workshops.

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Catch Up

Catch Up

My silence is due to my busy schedule! I organized a weekend workshop for the Guild with Jean Wong. I love going to workshops, but organizing them is always more work than I anticipated!

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Upcoming workshops

Upcoming workshops

This coming weekend I’m teaching four knitting workshops at BC’s Creative Expo at Canada Place in Vancouver. It’s being billed as a consumer education trade show and in addition to classes, seminars and stage shows, there will be a vendor’s mall with 45 exhibitors.

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Nordic Knitting
No Straights for Me

No Straights for Me

I hadn’t really realised it, but I’ve been knitting with circular needles almost exclusively for a few years now. I love my Addi Turbos. That’s all fine and dandy until I can’t find the right sized circular needle in my stash.

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Guild workshops

Guild workshops

It’s been a busy knitty time for me lately. Our Guild had a great day of workshops the weekend after Quadra Island. I taught my glove workshop in the morning and we had a lot of fun with it.

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Hand dyeing workshop

Hand dyeing workshop

 I had time to take in a couple of workshops while I was at the knitting retreat on Quadra Island. Truely, what’s a knitting retreat without a workshop, right? Judy MacLean of Sweatermaker Yarns creates beautiful hand-painted skeins of indulgence.

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Yikes!

Yikes!

I just saw that my last post shows an albeit unseasonable snow storm from my balcony. It has been a while, hasn’t it? The retreat on Quadra Island was amazing. Paulette, a friend from my Guild and I traveled and roomed together.

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Arrested knitting

Arrested knitting

The workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton were wonderful. I had great fun teaching them – I really enjoy sharing with other knitters.

I think my new favourite workshop is Making Marvelous Mittens.

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