Hey folks… The Boston Globe has an article about men who knit and I got included. It’s very exciting to be a part of the group of people they featured and to have all my knitting projects listed… I am super thrilled.
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Rhinebeck 2009
Words fail me
Perhaps this is how haikus got started, someone went to Rhinebeck and felt very overwhelmed… so they had to limit the amount of words that came out of their mouth in describing the experience.
The fall brought Rhinebeck
Tactile Travel tour drove me there
Overwhelmed
Please enjoy my impromptu slide show as I try to put together the words for the weekend:
links:
Old friend and new friend
Vanderbilt Mansion with Tactile Travel
Ravelry meetup (yeah, like they need a link)
Fancie Purls in Norwood MA
technical delay…
the TNNA show will be up By tommorrow night… technical difficulties… :P sorry for the delay
IAPM65:TNNA Updates with link love
I went to TNNA and all I brought you back is this lousy post… OK, this post and and two podcasts. Todays show is a quick overview of my weekend… secrets revealed…
First, all the time below is GMT, so please subtract 4 hours for the real time.
I put all the pieces together into chronological order and have added names and links so that you can find out more about the great people and things I found on the TNNA floor.
Friday
taken from Zealana booth
Michael from Universal Yarn
Voice Mail Jun 12 05:49 PM – Kimberly from the Alpaca Yarn Company
LIVE AWESOME VIDEO UPDATE with MARLY
- Cocoon by Universal Yarn
- Kraemer Yarn (silver)
- Jacques Cartier Clothier (qiviuk/Vacuna)
- Buffalo Gold (Buffalo)
- Bijou Spun (yak)
- Zealana (possum)
Voice Mail Jun 12 06:48 PM – Jenny tells all
Jenny twitters here
Barry’s can be found here
Voice Mail Jun 13 12:39 AM – Angela from the Alpaca Yarn Company
Voice Mail Jun 13 12:43 AM – Owner of Black Sheep LYS
I think that this is the shop here
This is a picture that I tweeted about Jenny and Kim tweeting… super Meta
Saturday
Voice Mail Jun 13 01:53 PM Elissa and the Kuku Dolls
Sheep make friends with the kuku dolls
Voice Mail Jun 13 03:06 PM Annie from Annie Adams Jewelry
Annie Adams had some beautiful stuf including these hematite stitch markers and necklace
Voice Mail Jun 13 03:15 PM – Carol from Farmhouse Yarns
Multiple monsters patterns on one CD!!
My favorite booth to grab some water and chill was Deep South Fibers
Voice Mail Jun 13 03:47 PM – Donna from Deep South Fibers
Deep South Fibers had some amazing monsters
LIVE AKWARD VIDEO UPDATE
This is a listener who heard me and then showed me her awesome new designs
Voice Mail Jun 13 04:20 PM – Jamie from Interweave
Voice Mail Jun 13 05:39 PM – Chrissy(and her new book) from Gardiner Yarn Work
Pretty pretty in the Gardiner Yarn Work booth
Voice Mail Jun 13 05:52 PM Hansi and her new book
I have the biggest knitting crush on Hansi and her new book
(maybe I can get her to design me a sheep to knit?)
Jessica poses for me at Interweave’s “let them tweet cake” event
Voice Mail Jun 13 07:39 PM – The Ladies from Lovely Yarn and special guest talk about Jeni’s Ice Cream, Alchemy Yarns, and Qiviut
Voice Mail Jun 13 08:16 PM – Marly in the PolarKnit Booth
Marly of yarnthing podcast pointed out these fleece big blue balls by polarknits
Offhand Designs makes beautiful bags from sophisticated fabrics
Voice Mail Jun 13 08:50 PM – Guido is Overwhelmed by TNNA
I totally begged Cookie A to pose with the sheep (squee)
Sunday
Y2Knit, like you need a reason 2Knit
Voice Mail Jun 14 03:44 PM – Kathy Elkin from WEBS (was supposed to be video, oh well)
Voice Mail Jun 14 03:56 PM – Joan from White Lies Designs
Annie Modesitt is an amazingly talented masked crusader
Voice Mail Jun 14 04:29 PM – Cecily and Melissa, authors of the upcoming New England knits in front of the Interweave booth
Lorna’s Laces are serving up yarns like fine wine
Voice Mail Jun 14 04:50 PM – Twisted Sisters at their booth
This came out of a pattern book by the Twisted Sisters
The Twisted Sisters folks make friendly with the sheep.
Check out the new color of The Knit Kit
Voice Mail Jun 14 05:09 PM – Dave from Louet
Dave from Louet Yarn is an excellent guy
Voice Mail Jun 14 05:28 PM – Vincent from Berger from France
I love the attitude on this Berger of France baby
Positive Yarn is trying to help yarn get online
Weeks Dye Works has wonderful colors, but not knitting yet…
Durango buttons and owners are so awesome…
Voice Mail Jun 14 05:59 PM – Kathy Merrick author of Crochet in Color in the Koigu booth
The St Denis Yarns at Classic Elite are so amazing
Voice Mail Jun 14 07:09 PM – Anne Bean in the Classic Elite booth
These ladies were sweet enough to take a photo in front of the Buffalo Gold booth
Voice Mail Jun 14 08:32 PM – Guido Stein wraps it up
MONDAY
Voice Mail Jun 15 01:26 PM – Micheal DelVechio shares an update from Universal Yarn
TNNA in reverse
I put out a lot of content this weekend live from TNNA… Sadly, the video didn’t work out they way I wanted, but the audio updates and images are great.
Here is a list of all the things I put up:
AUDIO UPDATES (click on the top right play button for them all)
http://drop.io/TNNAupdate
IMAGE UPDATES
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7420172@N04/
VIDEO UPDATES (What I could do with it)
http://www.itsapurlman.com/tnnaupdate/
EVERYTHING and MORE UPDATES
http://twitter.com/GuidoS
Maryland Sheep and Party…
So, no one else was throwing an after party.. so I took it upon myself to put togther a mixer/cocktail party… and now I am looking for a head count. If you are going to be at the Maryland Sheep and Wool and are looking for some fun at night… come out… knit… socialize… etc…
Please help spread the word for about this on your blog/podcast…. and ask others to share as well. I have a room for 150 -200 and I am sure that we can fill it.
New Year Distraction
Look, I know that there is no show. See… when I have no computer and fils missing, it’s hard to put on a show. So instead I am gong to distract you with some photos of a cute little girl who I knitted a hat for from the Itty Bitty Hat book:
I.C.U.
Ok… so my computer is in the I.C.U. right now. Because of this I have not been able to get out the three great interviews I have currently. Please hang in tough with me. I will try and put together the 20 stories day on New Years day with my wifes computer, but the other interviews are on my computer that crashed…
So… ugh…
Please feel free to send in a story for the 20 stories show (see last post)
A twit for stories…
So I was listening to This American Life yesterday and they did a show where they crammed 20 stories into an hour. The radio show was inspired by a theater group in Chicago that has a similar theme to it. This concept of short story telling seems like a lot of fun to me.
So in true short story fashion(you can’t get much shorter than a twitter message), I twitted my intention to do a show with 20 stories. The response so far is excellent and I should have 20 stories soon enough. If you would like to participate here are the ground rules:
- I need a 2-3minute mp3 or wav recording of you telling your story that loosely relates to casting-on (as in starting a project)
- I need your name (as much as you would like to give), title (if it applies, mine would be head host of itsapurlman), and location (again, as much as you would like to give up… I would be Boston)
- I need your permission to use the audio
- I need it by January 1st ( will put the show together on January1st)
Please feel free to put all the info above in one recording and place it in my drop box. (I will edit out everything but the story, the rest is for housekeeping) If you cannot record on your own, try using the voicemail number 646-402-5686 x53198 (this will end up in the drop box.
If you have any questions, comments, or would like to let me you are on twitter (and are a listener of my show) feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at twitter. (better than email because everyone else who has the same question can see the answer).
Testing…
I am trying out a new theme this week. Let me know wat you think…