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Kim Thomson of Live Wool



You know a picture like this would get my attention.  (Unfortunately it is a photograph of a newspaper article that I was not able to find electronically.  P.S. It is from the Washington State magazine called Getaway.  Discovered it on my way on a ferry to Port Townsend.)  Kim Thomson is the owner and creator of this portable yarn ball hat.  I love that it would certainly allow one to move and knit almost effortlessly.  So with her name and a location of Port Townsend, Washington I decided to find out more about Kim.

Let's start with the city.  Port Townsend is located in the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula and is known for the many Victorian buildings remaining from its late 19th-century heyday.  Captain George Vancouver found and named it in 18th century, so this place has been around for some time.  Here's a couple of geographic maps to help locate Port Townsend, Jefferson County in Washington State.
The red above is Jefferson county and the red dot, Port Townsend 

If you look at photos of the place it appears to be a part of a beautiful, protected harbour of the Admiralty Inlet that flows into Puget Sound.  With a population of just over 9,000 and a listing on the U.S. National Register of Historical Places, this small town has a lot going for it.

During the summer it has what appears to be a vibrant Farmers Market, which is exactly where the top photo was taken of Kim Thomson.  She is a trained artist who spent much of her life working with chemicals as an artist.  Ultimately she became sensitive to them and had to give up that craft.  For several years she was a busker playing her fiddle around the Pacific Northwest.  This activity took her to New Zealand where she found knitting and fell in love with it (my kind of person).  Upon returning to the U.S. she combined her sculpting with her knitting skills and has created lovely felted items.




Paul and I were just talking about spending some time in the Olympic Peninsula and when we get there I will have to add a stop into Kim Thomson's  studio and gallery, Thomson Art Forms, 833 Water Street, Port Townsend.  I need to meet this inventive and creative individual in person.

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  1. Anonymous12 September 2013 at 12:46

    Felting is the next thing I want to learn!!

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