The newest edition of magknits is up. Usually I like a few of the patterns, but this time, I think I like *all* of them... even fragola (which I wish I had the time to resize to an adult size since I think it's really cute). Odessa is my favorite, though... Grumperina hit big again with this one and I can see the potential for this one to be as big as her Jaywalkers. Between her designs and Glampyre's designs, I am one happy knitter! Now if I only had four arms (to work on two projects at once) and 36 hours in a day...
Jess and Traci just came back from Hawaii, lucky ducks, and before they left, Jess asked what I wanted her to bring back for me. I had a bizarre obsession with collecting sand from different places, so I asked her for a little baggie of sand. Then as a joke I told her she could also get me some yarn. Now Jess is not a knitter, and neither is Traci, so as a joke they went to Walmart Hawaii and got me a skein of Red Heart. The colorway is really really pretty... and I've heard tales that if Red Heart is washed enough it actually becomes soft. Anyone have any experience with doing this? It's too bad that acrylic doesn't air very well since I think the colors would make a wonderful pair of socks.
*addendum* I forgot to mention...
Seth and I are working on planning our summer vacation/ anniversary trip, and again this year we are planning on trucking down to Boston. Now we don't think we're going to have Red Sox tickets (since I don't have the money for them now and they'll be sold out by the time I get my tax return... and I'm not going to pay $100/ ticket like I did last year), and we've made the decision to stay 3 nights instead of just 2. I didn't get the change to hit any yarn stores last summer, so I want to plan on hitting at least one this time. We haven't yet decided on a hotel... we really liked staying in Cambridge, but in order to hit the T we had to walk across the river and into the BU campus (which wasn't fun at 90 degrees). We might want to stay in the city this time... perhaps around the Copley area.
So... jessica and any other Boston area knitters... what is your recommendation for places that I should definitely hit? Anything is doable as long as it is accessible by T (since I'm not driving into the city). Green line is most familiar to me, but that's because that's the line I took when I lived down there. I'm not limiting myself to that line, though. I'm excited to hear your thoughts!
posted by Sara @ 8:52 AM
4 Comments:
It might be worth looking into taking the train down, then you really don't have to drive into the city. It's a nice ride (you can knit!!) and its relatively cheap.
Good point... especially if we do stay right in the city. The train out of Portland goes into North Station, right?
You should have been able to access the T from both sides of the river [boston & camb.]. I wonder where it was you stayed.
My yarn store recommendations, all accesible via T:
1. Newbury Yarns - love this store & it's owner
2. Windsor Button - another great shop.
Both of these stores are withn 1 mile of each other. It's a great walk, down Newbury Street & through Boston Gardens [and Commons, yuk].
KATE - you're so smaht! Great idea. Yup, the downeaster[?] goes right to N. Station which has access to both the Orange Line and the Green Line.
Oh, I love Boston! I was there are few years ago and so enjoyed out short trip! Hope you enjoy it!
I am with you on the new Magknits. I am fond of many of the patterns-and the great thing is nearly all of the designs are from friendly knitbloggers! ;)
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