Welcome to the Baaad Anna’s Art Gallery, where the exhibits are soft, wearable and made with hundreds of hours of care.. collectively. This month we’re celebrating fibre arts as art forms in their own right. Our walls may be lined with yarn instead of paint, but creativity lives here all
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I went to see this movie opening week with my family. It was a sweet story with a heartfelt message. Ryan Gosling wore a few outfits in the film, but when the fox sweater made its screen debut, I gasped audibly. Good thing the theatre was almost empty, good old
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Recently I wrote about how projects pivot when life throws you a curveball. I had a great conversation in store recently with a customer that said she was in finishing-mode where what gave her the greatest joy, and also occupied just the right amount of brainpower that she could give
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Today’s tale from the yarn store, a customer came in looking for yarn for a friend who wanted something “beachy.” She asked what I thought that meant, which honestly feels like such a fibre arts question because everyone interprets colour so differently. My mind immediately went to this one Bramble
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So there’s a time and season for different crafts and projects. Currently I find myself in a new craft horizon where the projects that have given me so much joy for the past few years namely sweaters and socks, slow fashion staples for the knitter, are just not appealing. In
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