Knotty By Nature Fibre Arts
1919 Fernwood Road V8T 2Y6 Victoria, BC, Canada

These beautiful creatures are back at Swan lake, and they have inspired our local needle felting kit maker @farmlass to make up a brand new kit for us! #needlefelting #swan #swanlake @ Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary Society

These beautiful creatures have returned to Swan lake and they have inspired our local maker to create a brand new needle felting kit for winter! Get your Swan kit here in the shop, and check out more of Farmlass's work here: https://farmlass.blogspot.com/

I feel very honoured to have been gifted this beaded poppy by @renegaderoseartistry one year ago, and I am still wearing it today on Remembrance Day. I’m thinking about all of the brave people that fought for our freedom and also that there is a long way to go for Indigenous people in this country to have those same freedoms. Scroll down for some truthtelling. . .... . Throughout World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, it is estimated that between 7000-12000 declared and undeclared indigenous people served in the Canadian forces. Unfortunately, the relationship between the Canadian government and servicemen and women was abysmal. Veterans were denied the same recompense as their non-indigenous counterparts under the War Veterans Allowance Act. Land was illegally taken from treatied territory and given to non-indigenous growers of crops to support the troops. That land was not returned. Forced conscription of treatied First Nation peoples, though illegal, was enforced from 1942 through 1944, until the courts upheld the rights of First Nations peoples abstaining from fighting in the Queen’s military, as provided for in treaty negotiation. Unfortunately, many who voluntarily left to fight in WWII lost Status upon returning and were no longer allowed to live on their Nation’s land with their own families. This was due to a clause in the Indian Act that prevented First Nations people from being absent from their reserves for longer than three years; in some cases this was also due to voluntary surrender of Status to be able to enlist, and sometimes with the promise of status recovery upon return. Many Metis people were afraid to identify for fear of losing their children, and so declared themselves French or European when enlisting. Many, many other important inequalities lasted well beyond the 1960s allowance of Indigenous veterans accessing Veterans Services and of entrance into the Legion. Indigenous Veterans were not allowed to lay wreaths at the National Monument until 1995.

My parents got a new puppy and I’m in love. She really loved sleeping in the sun on this lovely wool sweater!

I went ahead and scheduled classes through until the end of February! Including three brand new classes for you. Due to COVID cautiousness our class max is 4, so classes fill up fast! Find more details at www.kbnfibres.ca