Brandon Mably

Brandon (from the Kaffe Fassett design studio) taught a workshop today in the store. Amazing!! He was hilarious-even told some off coloured jokes as well as being extremely patient. Both of these surprised me-sorry Brandon. I had visions of this stuffy Brit who yelled at students for not working fast enough and picking terrible colours. The ladies learned about mixing colours and fairisle techniques by working on the Persian Poppy chart from Kaffe Fassett. Everyone came away learning new techniques, with a new appreciation for colour. Brandon will be at the Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival in Toronto this weekend-take a workshop if you get a chance.

Now I am off to teach my Thursday night class. Another group I can't get rid of. We did have to set some ground rules for this class-wine is served only on the last night of each session.

As you can see my life consists of running a knitting shop and teaching knitting. The extra few minutes are spent working on our knitting retreat and keeping the local guild in order.

I thought I was fairly smart until...

Starting my blog took a little more work than I anticipated. People told me that you just picked a template and started typing. Not if you want it to look different from everyone else's!!! I want to thank Wannietta and Samantha for their help and support. I have learned how to add links, change colours, insert lines and much more. There is still more to learn but time is limited. I really need a few more hours in the day.



Today I finished Skeppstra. I even sewed it together-usually I hand off to one of my knitters to finish for me. The finishing was better than the cleaning I needed to do. Brandon Mably from Rowan will be teaching for me tomorrow and I wanted the store to look amazing. This meant washing windows, sweeping, vaccumming and cleaning the toilet-YUCK.

Off to my advanced knitting class. Not really a class-they've been with me for 15 years and I can't make them leave. It is their night out and nothing gets in the way. We can have the worst snow storm and they all show up. None of them live in town-most drive an hour to get here. Luckily they know everything so I will get 2 hours to knit and get paid for it!

It's a cold, rainy Thanksgiving Monday in Southern Ontario. After much talking about starting a blog, today is the day. So far the hardest part was deciding on a name. The next hardest part will be picking which project to write about. There are way too many to talk about-I am known for having many, many UFOs.

Almost finished Skeppsta-from the new Cornelia Tuttle-Hamilton Naturally Noro magazine. The front and back are knit in strips, using Noro Transitions, on 9mm needles. The whole sweater took 5 days to knit. The sleeves ended up too short so I had to lengthen and tomorrow I can finish sewing together.

For the rest of the afternoon there is CFL football on tv that will be followed by the NFL game tonight. This means lots of time for knitting (Vision Coat from Sally Melville's The Purl Stitch.) I have one sleeve knit and the back almost done. Pictures to follow during the week.