17 September 2008 ~ 2 Comments

A Night At The Theater

Last night I was invited to attend and blog about “Let me Down Easy” a dramatic piece by Anna Deavere Smith which was put together for the American Repertory Theatre (ART) in Cambridge. This was a great blogging event that was put together by Sooz. I believe that this was an attempt to reach a [...]

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28 August 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Road trip to Philly (Extended Fiber crawl?)

OK, so I am hitting the road and driving down to Philly for Podcamp Philly the weekend after next. I will be heading down on Friday morning and was wondering what kinda fiber crawl I could do on my way down to Philly. I know I want to visit Rosie’s and Loop in Philly, but [...]

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25 August 2008 ~ 8 Comments

From here to there

In hopes of promoting the fiber guild and my stash I went on a pretty fantastic ride on Saturday. It started at Athan’s in Allston. There is a great group of ladies who meet up there for fantastic food, conversation, and knitting. I got a lot of feedback about what would make for a good [...]

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17 August 2008 ~ 2 Comments

IAPM53: Local Yarn Shops at NENA 2008

The ladies from Creative Warehouse and their Kuku knitted dolls Many thanks to Jan Anderson super yarn rep of “All About Yarn” for inviting me to NENA. She is a gracious host and very proud of the yarn companies that she reps. Also, many thanks to the folks at Blue Heron for giving me a [...]

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13 August 2008 ~ 4 Comments

The votes are in

In case you didn’t know: I am starting a fiber guild in Boston. It’s going to be a Friday night group where we can all go for drinks afterward. We have set up two meetings and on one special event planned for 2008. We are in the process of taking of the Boston Knit Out [...]

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06 August 2008 ~ 1 Comment

So many yarns spinning…

I am working on getting the new fiber guild off the ground. I have been talking to people about speaking at our meetings. I have been working on graphics. I have been getting venues, tickets, and lawyers. I have been trying to figure out how to convince everyone to come out and play. And now [...]

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28 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

The Worsted Feather Tribune

Dear listener… Today was another wonderful day at camp not-a-lot-a-fiber. We started the day at the pool where we learned to block shawls. We then moved into the hundred yard dash where we learned to beat other campers to the cashmere sale. After dinner, we all gathered around and sang a round of camp town [...]

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23 July 2008 ~ 5 Comments

A quick wrapup…

So many things to update you all on… let’s start with some thanks, Thanks to Alanna Andrea Chelsea DarkInnKnits Cat and Eric and everyone else who sent me an image or positive vibe for my podcamp presentation. It went well. Actually, I think that the knitting gods were smiling upon me by stacking the room [...]

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18 July 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Anxiety and excitment

So we are now in July, already. Time and I seem to be having some issues. It keeps slipping away like air conditioning out a window. I think I have plenty of time, and then it’s July. So why am I all at odds with time. Because I want to get things done. Let’s see, [...]

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10 July 2008 ~ 1 Comment

I am not Canadian

And people say I appologize like I was Canadian… Thought you all might like to check out the High Maintenance Machine site. The author of this strip not only lives in my city, but he also seems to live in my head. I find it strange that so many of the scenes he plays out [...]

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