My Fair Isle
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Artists Who Knit

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There was a time when I had to search and search for artists who were making real, serious (and seriously funny) work that included needlewo...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Artist Talk at Lion Brand Studio - May 7th

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I will be giving a talk at Lion Brand Studio on May 7th from 6 - 8 p.m. I will be speaking about my work and the work of several other art...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Spring Fever

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For the past couple of weeks I have been feeling a profound kind of exhaustion, like my bones are made of lead. I have felt this before a c...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Bring Your Crimes With You

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Lately I have been thinking a lot about mistakes: making mistakes, watching others make mistakes and how the mere whiff of possibility arou...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Good Footage, Good Yardage

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The weekend went well. We had a computer glitch in the middle of it all which threatened to make everything very, very complicated but in t...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Spindle 7

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It has been quite an adventure, these last three days. I am grateful to Marcia for always egging me on for "one more encounter" a...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

Marcia is Here! Marcia is Here!

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Last summer, I met the funny and fabulous Marcia Connolly, a film maker from Toronto. Marcia was working on a film about the equally fabulo...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Spindle 7 - This Sunday!

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Please join me this Sunday on the #7 train for Spindle 7, a project funded in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from ...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Coming Home

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Yesterday I stepped out the front door of the ZCNYC for the first time since last Thursday into brilliant sunshine. Somehow, in three days,...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Dig In

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Before heading off into the great silence, I have been able to spin up several new skeins with the help of Finn and Lucy's excellent car...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Fullness of Weekends

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Thanks for all your great comments about Ripley's Believe It or Not . I sent them a reply asking a couple of questions but haven't ...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Knitting Super Freak

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Should I be honoured or appalled? I was contacted this morning by Ripley's Believe It or Not regarding the water tower project . Perh...
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Check Mate!

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I hope those are words out of Lucy's mouth many times this weekend. She (and Dan and Finn) are traveling to Nashville this morning so s...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Dear Dan...

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This afternoon after getting home from our day in Brooklyn I checked my email, as I am wont to do of a Thursday afternoon. There was a note...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Good-bye Plane

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I have been dragging my crocheted biplane project around with me in a plastic bag for two weeks. Some might suggest I spent more time compl...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Uncle Jimmy

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Dan's uncle, James Nuttall, died this past weekend. He lived in Pakistan and was a priest in the Dominican order. Dan's mother, au...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mojo No Go

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Last week I received a call from David at Lion Brand (do I flinch ever so slightly when I see his number come up on my phone? would it soun...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Yarn Theory at PS.122

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I am thrilled to invite you all to the upcoming exhibition, Yarn Theory , at PS.122 in Manhattan (150 Second Ave at East 9th Street). Cura...

Dye Day Afternoon

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On Wednesday, we spent the day with our friends Sono and Zen. The children engaged in a five-hour pillow fight (when they weren't light...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Guerilla Spinning

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Yesterday evening I spun on the #7 train for the first as part of my project, Spindle 7 . Not sure why I have been holding back from actual...
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