noro scarf

Inspired by the Yarn Harlot and just about everyone else in blogville who seems to have knitted a noro scarf in November, I ordered the yarn from WEBS and made one up for my mom.

I kept interrupting the kids to show them the way the "colors look now". In the beginning they were able to feign interest, but after awhile it wore a bit thin for them.

. . . but look at the way the colors look now!

saw the yarn harlot when she came to town

I saw Stephanie Pearl McPhee in Cambridge last night. Great fun to see her in person! I feel like I know her from reading her blog. I covet her job! My favorite part was the Q and A at the end. My favorite new tidbit--put your keyboard on the floor so you can hit the space bar with your foot while knitting and reading knitting blogs.



Here's what Stephanie has to say about the Cambridge reading:

http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/

Here, There and Just About Everywhere

The weekend before last was a rare weekend when the kids were with their dad and I wasn't teaching. I went up to the Fiber Revival (http://www.fiberrevival.com/) and took a shibori class. Yeah, I didn't know what it was either. It's a Japanese word, and I think the latest meaning is felting into shapes. Like tying objects in before felting to get different textures. There's an effect where you knit a scarf in alternate rows of wool and silk, then felt, and since the silk doesn't felt, it gets pulled into lacy shapes--really cool. The festival was at a beautiful old farm, where I saw my first fall leaves on the ground. Not hard to believe when (here visiting the Cape today celebrating my dad's 70th birthday) the highs were in the low seventies. I also made it up to the Lowell Farmer's Market where I bought some mysterious (to me) Asian vegetables and over to the Lincoln Farm tour.

This weekend was the Women's Herb Conference in New Hampshire. I feel so filled up--drumming, dancing around the fire, workshops on plants, folk singers. Sophie's favorite part was learning how to weave wheat. Rebecca liked the herb walks. The conference is on 700 beautiful acres with a lake for swimming. The whole thing was as always, very inspiring, and I have all sorts of herbal projects in mind now, from making acorn flour with the kids to more wheat weaving to getting Honey off Advantix and onto an herbal flea and tick and making some herbal cordials and planting an elder plant. (Last year the conference motivated me to make mead and elderberry wine, which is still fermenting and needs to be bottled!)

beautiful blog

If you want to read something inspiring check out Tink's blog (http://yarnsinthefarms.com/intheloop/?p=70) about her daughter's difficulty and her path to dangerous knitting. Tink has a yarn store that's so beautiful and inspiring in Beverly, Mass. and she writes children's books. I want to be her when I grow up.