I am madly knitting my fifth Pussy Hat – test-driving my Canadian flag version. Loving that. I’ll post it on this blog when it’s done. (Read More)
A friend asked me on Facebook where she could drop off her completed The Pussy Hat Project so it could make it to the Jan 21, 2017 protest March on Washington. I’d heard that Yarns Untangled, a yarn store in Toronto’s Kensington Market, had offered to be a drop-off point, so I reached out to them. (Read More)
Okay. It’s true. I can’t help myself. I keep making these hats for The Pussy Hat Project. Yes, way back in my brain, I suppose I am dreaming that I can make 54 of them for everyone one of the passengers on Tracey Erin Smith’s and Savoy Howe’s Soulomobile – all participants in Soulo Theatre’s March on Washington on Jan 21, 2017. I probably won’t make that goal before they leave for their marchtravaganza for women’s rights, and to make their voices heard, and to make theatre about their experience. (Read More)
To ramp up about The Pussy Hat Project, read my previous blog here. The Pussy Hat is a fantastic knitting protest initiative whose inaugural day is fast approaching – and I mean inaugural in both senses of the word. (Read More)
An article was shared with me on Facebook recently and I instantly wanted to get involved. Because it was about an issue I believe in AND it involved knitting. What could be better? (Read More)
Taking on a project as big as Stitched Glass has many demands – researching, designing, mocking up and then knitting, by hand, solo, three 5-foot by 9-foot tapestries. Lord only knows what I was thinking.(Read More)
My Hungry Yarn Stash blog series features the yarn stores where I have bought copious amounts of yarn for my massive knitting project, Stitched Glass.
One of my all-time favourite yarn stores is La Droguerie in Paris, France... [Read More]
Part of the money awarded to me through my Chalmers Arts Fellowship for my installation, Stitched Glass, was allotted to supplies – namely, yarn. Lots and lots of yarn.
I didn’t quite understand how much yarn was required to knit three tapestries, each of which is about five feet wide by eight feet high. Which makes sense, given I didn’t quite understand how long it would take to knit Stitched Glass (that’s thirteen years and counting).
So I started buying yarn wherever we went, wherever we saw an interesting yarn store. We have bought yarn in many places in Ontario, in Canada, and abroad... (Read More)