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bUTTONS aNd bITS
My hand made polymer clay buttons have had a home here for a while but now I've added other items from my studio including my stock of hand knit shawls and socks. Welcome to my stash of sweater accessories, buttons, sweater sticks and pins. Starting more than a twenty years ago as an accent to my hand loomed knits the bUTTONS became an entity unto themselves! Now, as I knit shawls and wraps I have made sWEATER sTICKS to hold them together or to use on buttonless knit jackets. It's been suggested they would look cool in hair!
Now and again when I have some in stock (they go fast at shows) I am listing some of my sWEATERwRAPS, sCARVES, and my kNIT jACKETS.
I have now added bARNETTdESIGNS sTUDIO with my first instructional DVD for Machine Knitters.
Follow my blog: https://barnett-knits.com/blog/
My web site: http.//www.barnett-knits.com
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amyinretrograde on 08 Nov, 2021
5 out of 5 starsThese are spectacularly beautiful and well-made. I got them as a gift for a friend who loves colourful wool socks and has high standards - and they were impressed!
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Marie on 19 Nov, 2020
5 out of 5 starsI love the sweater wrap! It is exactly as pictured, well-made with vibrant colours and soft wool. I would order from Carolyn again ... for sure!
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Cindy on 03 Aug, 2020
5 out of 5 starsCarolyn is a gifted artist and you will love adding her work to your own creation. the buttons are for a sewing project. Highly recommend!
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Cindy on 03 Aug, 2020
5 out of 5 starsAbsolutely gorgeous! Carolyn is a gifted artist and I am always thrilled to get one of her designs. Highly recommend!
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Suzi on 02 Aug, 2020
5 out of 5 starsThe socks are fabulous!!! I gifted them to a special friend because my feet are too small for the socks. She was THRILLED!!!!
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mifb on 12 Jun, 2020
5 out of 5 starsAbsolutely adorable! I don't know how I'll use them yet, but they'll be distinctive on anything I make. Many thanks to the seller - I love these buttons!!
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mifb on 02 Jun, 2020
5 out of 5 starsCharming and beautifully made. These buttons are too big for my latest project, but I had to have them - now I just have to find something worthy of them! Excellent service - they arrived in record time. Many thanks!
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About barnettdesigns
One Woman Enterprise.
Trained and working as a nursery school teacher but with a year of fashion under my belt first I went back to clothing when I started to knit to sell in 1982. First hand knits starting in 1982 then, visiting a US wholesale art show in my part time job with a glass artist, I met two women creating beautiful garments using domestic knitting machines. When I got home I bought one and started to work with finer wools and cottons in 1984.
First pullovers in plain colours (hand knit) then more colourful knits and jackets as I learned to make buttonholes, that lead to my using buttons then making my own of polymer clay. Travel and aging lead to using more colours. As my jackets are pricey a friend suggested wraps as I could make them more easily and they didn't need to fit, I could sell them for somewhat less even though they took almost as much yarn. To hold the wraps in place I started to make my Sweater Pins and Sticks.
I started knitting socks in the '70's, I wanted to learn how, but a job making costume knits for a Stratford Festival production of The Boyfriend left me with lots of left over sock yarn. I had used sock yarn so the wardrobe mistress could easily wash the sweaters worn by heavily sweating dancers. I went back to knitting socks and I haven't looked back...I always have a pair on the go, for in front of the telly, riding on long journeys. With my local yarn shops and in my travels I always hit the knitting stores to stock up on more colourful sock yarn.
Teaching is something I love to do, imparting my knowledge to other knitters to carry the creativity forward, hence working up three machine knitting patterns. Thei first two were published in Knitwords a now online only machine knitting magazine.
When I'm not knitting, felting or claying I'm building web sites...another creative outlet and my 'side gig'.
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Carolyn Barnett
Owner, Designer
I'm the chief cook and bottle washer in this business. I knit on my knitting machine, wet felt jackets in my studio, move over and work on polymer clay the create the buttons and pins for my knits and felteds.
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