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Shine and Shimmer

  Planning a visit to Salt Spring Island & interested in the new fibre art products? Organize a group of interested students and we can provide the following class at a time convenient for you. We are please to have Susan Paynter as part of the Stitches team. Susan spent her career as a textile arts teacher and for the past ten years has explored the area of fiber arts.

Bark, Branches & Organics

  Planning a visit to Salt Spring Island & interested in the new fibre art products? Organize a group of interested students and we can provide the following class at a time convenient for you. We are please to have Susan Paynter as part of the Stitches team. Susan spent her career as a textile arts teacher and for the past ten years has explored the area of fiber arts.

Images for inspiration

  Here are some photos taken during a visit to  Tofino. Living on the coast, I am drawn to the ocean, the beaches and the scenery.  We live in a beautiful part of the country. These  images  will be the inspiration for some landscape studies once I have a little time to create.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Circular Knitting Machines

  I recently acquired an antique  circular sock knitting machine in the hopes of knitting socks. Yikes!  These are facinating machines, but not as simple as one may think.

Woven Baskets

  Just before the holidays, a group of us  got together to learn how to make coiled baskets.  We used various threads, yarns and cords for the wrapping.  Some even added shells and beads!  Here are the finished pieces.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

The shop at Christmas

 Stockings are hung in the windows.  This one was knit and felted with Cascade 220 wool.  The pattern is found in Alterknit Felt, by Leigh Radford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small versions of a knitted stocking...one for each of us.

 

 

 

Yarn Scarves

This is a great project if you have a stash of left over yarns, threads and fibrer....and what knitter doesn't?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things that keep us warm!

We have prepared a variey of knitted hat and scarf samples, just in time for the cold weather. This pattern "Sugar on Snow" comes from knitty.com.   You can make a hat as we have using 2 balls of Bonbori by Noro and tying the top with a knitted I-cord.  The same pattern was used to make this lovely cowl below:

 

 

 

Sights of Salt Spring

  We are fortunate to live in such a beautiful area. Below are some of my favorite images taken by my kids.

 

 

 

 Here are some photos take by my daughter, Jaco

 

 

 

 

 

Felting Class - student work

  Here are some images from our recent  felting class. Students used wool roving and embellishments to create a unique purse or clutch.  After felting, additional details were added with needle felting. The diversity in the finished products was amazing.  Thanks to everyone who participted in the class.

 

 

 

 

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