Thank you, everyone, for the thoughtful messages and comments about the loss of our dear Claire. I appreciate your kindness and understanding. 💕🐾
The shop is OPEN today, Saturday, January 12th. ✨Jen will be hosting drop in spinning today, and Tiffany @tiffabeast will be around demonstrating finger weaving (used in making the voyageur sashes among other things). If you’re interested in learning to spin wool, spindles, or spinning wheels be sure to drop in today to chat with Jen from @rosesnpurlsfibreart .✨
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To be honest, I’m feeling very overwhelmed with sadness still, making today hard to face. I’m familiar enough with grief to know that this feeling won’t go away any time soon, so I have to pick myself up and continue on. I’m grateful I’ll have two friends around the shop to laugh and cry with.
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We will be hosting two stitch-a-long afternoons: Saturdays, February 16th and 23rd 1-5pm to work on making knit and crochet #pussyhats. The #pussyhatproject has rallied people to stand up for women’s rights and human rights since the 2016 election.
“A global women’s movement, created almost overnight. Millions of women, men, and children at over 600 rallies in countries touching virtually every continent. Young, old, rich and poor. Educated and not, religious and secular. Straight and LGBTQ, every race and colour. All wearing hand-made, knitted caps on a single day, awash in a sea of pink, arm in arm in solidarity for women’s rights and protest against the rhetoric used toward women and minorities in the previous year’s state and federal elections.
And it all started with two sticks and a ball of yarn.”
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We will have patterns - both knit and crochet made available at the shop along with selections of pink yarn. Come join us to make your own proud #pussyhat. Have your own hat ready to wear for #internationalwomensday March 8th 2019!
Visit the link in profile to the workshop schedule for more information. This is a free drop in stitch-a-long.💗
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It shouldn’t be a surprise that the most common question in the shop is where the strange name came from. Most of you have heard the story a few times. Its a play on words.
The shop is named for our three children: our two living children, Oliver and Hannah, and our precious son Finn, who passed away unexpectedly as an infant - he’s my little magical dragonfly.
People see young Oliver around the shop often, but Hannah is a bit of a mystery. She lives away in Ottawa these days, studying in her third year at Carleton University in Ottawa. Today is her 21st birthday!
It’s absolutely incredible to me that she’s 21 already. 💕
I’m incredibly proud of the woman she’s become, and the paths she’s daring enough to take, her inhibition, self care, positivity, and life-long interest in human rights and equality. My girl fills my heart.
Cheers to Hannah on her special day!
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