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Altering the Ocean Breeze
This weekend I was busy working on altering one of my designs previously called the Modern Twist Scarf. This scarf had an embellished broche included. It just so happened I had made most of them in a selection of blues ranging from darks to lights. I am in the middle of reworking some of my current…
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Hand Spun Treasures
Hand Spun yarn adds such an amazing colour, texture and style to any design. The garment is handmade from the top to the bottom of the piece with a special yarn spun with love and great skill. The skein of art is then passed over to another Artist to create a design with this magnificent yarn. I…
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I Envy Green
Someone once told me “blue and green should never be seen”. On the contrary, I envy green and seriously disagree with this statement. What a loss it would be to not put these two colours together. The pictures shows some of what I have been inspired to work on this week and blue and green were obviously…
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Hookers at the Skate Park
Originally posted on CONFESSIONS OF A YARN-A-HOLIC: I’m not sure of the story behind this photo, but it was too cute not to share… I ran across it in a Facebook post, and was able to trace back as far as the Hatnut Ideen album by German yarn shop Bastelund Hobbykiste. As a YARN-A-HOLIC and pop culture junkie, I’m…
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A Sweater Flashmob
Originally posted on CONFESSIONS OF A YARN-A-HOLIC: What’s better than 500 hand knit sweaters? Putting them all in a flashmob, of course. Since 1955, Loes Veenstra has knitted over 550 sweaters and stored them in her home on the 2nd Carnissestraat in Rotterdam. Loes and the fruit of her decades of knitting were ‘discovered’ by…
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Fuzzy Little Friends:
These fuzzy little friends of my knitting world are so adorable and belong to the Alberta Rose Alpacas at www.albertarosealpacas.com Stopped by for a visit to check out the amazing yarn they grow locally. Alpacas have to be the most adorable animals and one of my favourite yarns to use. These guys had such character…
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Inspired by the Aida Opera – Opera Art Project
The Opera Art Project – Aida Opera I had the most wonderful opportunity this past year to design and make various knitted and crochet pieces for the Opera Art Project. You can find more information about this amazing project on my website: http://www.vbaberdesigns.com/page25.html or check out the Alberta Craft Council website at http://www.albertacraft.ab.ca/special-projects/ to view work from the…
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Alberta Bound….via Inspiration!
The Alberta Bound collection was designed by request of the Alberta Craft Council Gallery Store at www.albertacraft.ab.ca The goal was to design a group of designs with an Alberta theme. Some of the designs include fibres grown right here in Alberta. This collection is the Alberta Bound Cozy Collars with an Alberta Rose broche that…
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Free Baby Hat Pattern
Free Baby Hat Pattern: http://www.vbaberdesigns.com/page28.html Free Infant Baby Hat pattern on my website is available at this link above. I truly believe that helping others is always an important goal to achieve in life. I will be adding more free patterns in the future, check back soon. This pattern was designed as a free pattern…
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