Life has been a busy crazy thing in the past few weeks as we continue to sell our condo in this unfriendly market. Luckily, it isn't all about the crazy economy. Friday I went to the first Common Cod Fiber Guild meeting of the year. Clara Parkes was speaking, which was a lot of fun.
Here is her formula from the meeting (because it was held at MIT and all):
Stash = (yarn squared / space) to the infinite power. Just in case it isn't terribly visible from the picture. Taking a photo of a chalk board isn't terribly easy.
At the meeting I brought my first two completed items of the year to the guild meeting. They were caps that Guido was collecting for Knit One, Save One. It was my first time using Rowan Calmer, and it is really nice yarn though it definitely has a learning curve.
Normally I join everyone who is left after the end of the speaking portion of the meeting to knit and kibbutz (a lot more knitting than kibbutzing, because the mix of people changes pretty much every meeting). This time the demo corner had a weaving demonstration with Carol, using a 4-harness table loom by Leclerc. After knitting for a bit, I hovered over there while she finished tying off the warp and then we got to try it after she did a little demonstration. It was a lot of fun! I did a bit of plain weave and some twill and a bit of herringbone. The herringbone was especially maddening, because Henry (the scarf that is eating my brain) is a woven herringbone pattern done on the long axis of the scarf. I could have done a similar pattern with a loom and I would have been done by now.
Carol mentioned the Boston Weaving Guild as a good resource, but the only weaving guild information I could find indicated that the meetings are in Westborough. While it is under a 2 mile walk from the commuter rail to get to the meeting site, I could never get there on a Wednesday night when the meetings are held. That's too bad, because it was a lot of fun.
It is snowing again right now, as I get ready to go to another dental appointment. So, here is the cap picture to end it today.
I tried taking a picture of the smaller hat on top of a can of soda. Bad idea! Putty color just made it look, umm, a little raunchy if you catch my drift.
