I’ve been working on and off on a pillow design for Topsy Farms. I’ve written about Topsy Farms before – run by Sally Bowen and Ian Murray, Topsy is located on Amherst Island, about two and a half hours east of Toronto – in other words, one ferry east of Prince Edward County. I was born near Amherst Island, in Amherstview, and it was my father’s first charge after graduating from theological school at Knox College, University of Toronto. My parents moved back to Amherst Island decades later, and my father was again the minister at St. Paul’s, so I have roots there. Our kids loved their time traipsing through A.I. farmers’ fields, watching cows get milked in barns, and feeding Topsy Farms lambs with baby bottles. (Read More)
In honour of International Women’s Day, here is my latest Pussy Hat. It’s for the women (and all humans), who are taking care of our planet. (Read More)
The March on Washington, Jan 21, 2017. What an overwhelming success, with over three million people marching across the United States, making it the biggest demonstration in United States history. 260,000 marched elsewhere around the world, too – here, in my hometown of Toronto, 60,000 people marched. (Read More)
Today is the March on Washington. My pussyhat efforts are all but done. Four of my pussyhats have gone to Washington with Tracey Erin Smith, and Savoy Howe, and Soulo Theatre (awesome artist Kerry Furneaux knit up another three for the Soulomobile as well). My remaining three pussyhats will be marching locally here in Toronto. (Read More)
As we near the March on Washington on Jan 21, 2017, and the Toronto edition of the March on the same day, all the Pussy Hat knitters I know have revved their engines and are knitting up a pink storm. (Read More)
As requested by the great Tracey Erin Smith, Artistic Director of Soulo Theatre, who, along with Savoy Howe, is bringing an entire bus of women down to the March on Washington on Jan 21, 2017 I have designed a beaver edition of the Pussy Hat. It will be a fine companion to the Canadian flag version. By the way, that hat is finished. I sewed up the Canadian ends at Tim Horton’s (what could be more Canadian than that)… (Read More)
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)
