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Introducing Betty Bucket

January 25, 2024

This is not your daughter’s bucket hat. That was the line that popped into my head when I stepped back to admire my new design. Not sure if my free form association translates outside the parameters of my own mind, so I’ll elaborate. I’m constantly seeing the line, “The is not your grandmother’s (insert noun…

Make Your Own Felted Beret. My First Video Course

December 31, 2023

Happy New Year, Everyone! Today is a very exciting day for me. My first video course is now live. You can now make these pretty and practical felted berets in your own home. Click HERE to purchase the course. I have several kits in my web shop, so that you can have all the supplies…

Knit One, Cry Two

December 12, 2023

Cast on 78 stitches, knit one with main colour, listen to the news, cry, purl one main colour, twist contrast colour around main colour, try to make sense of the horror, knit 2 rounds plain, rage, knit one, purl one to the end of round….cry a little more. Another beautiful beret is completed. This is…

Seizing the Day

October 1, 2023

Hi, everyone! Welcome to October. Fall in Lunenburg is proving to be much kinder than the summer. OK, there was one little hurricane, but I’m so over natural disasters…or any other kind, for that matter. I have forgotten it as quickly as it blew in. A few weeks back my friend/neighbour, Vanessa, and I decided…

The Summer of the Slug

August 26, 2023

Hello from the end of summer. I think we had a summer. I remember something about an extreme heat wave and then crazy forest fires and people praying for rain…which we got…and got…and got. I then remember watching videos of Beavers swimming down the Bedford highway and an absence of roads and a run on…

A Hat Shop Minute

June 24, 2023

Hello, from pretty Lunenburg. As you can see from the above photo, I am open for business. I mustered up everything I learned about painting in Kindergarten and made an open sign. People often look confused when standing in my driveway trying to decide if they are in the right place or not. Hopefully, this…

Fade free Hats, Indigo Love and Smoke

June 7, 2023

Hello from smokey Nova Scotia. While many people to the west and east of me have lost their homes or have been evacuated due to the wild fires, life in Lunenburg has been relatively normal….other than wind directions sometimes causing bad air quality. This is a very small province, so it really isn’t possible to…

Spring Has Sprung

May 15, 2023

Hello, hello, I just wanted to pop in here to let people know that Spring returned. Isn’t it amazing? How do those buds know to open? I was just beginning to feel forsaken by Mother Nature when the crocuses and daffodils started appearing. In Nova Scotia, one never fully puts their winter clothes away, but…

We Came, We Knit, We Conquered

March 29, 2023

I just finished teaching my first 4 week hand knit and felted beret workshop. For the past four Monday mornings four delightful ladies have shown up at my house to learn to make a hand knit and felted beret. The first of anything always comes with a bit of trepidation…Can I fit this into four…

A Hat Making Workshop and Lots of New Hats

February 2, 2023

Hello, hello! I have so many hats to show you, but before I do I have some exciting news to share with you…..I will be teaching my first workshop, here in my little studio. I am also working on creating online workshops, but this will take some (a lot of) time. If you live nearby…