Posted on March 6, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Dear Ann:
(I always wanted to write that)
It is to my great relief to report that no one called the police on us in spite of noise levels such as an energized and gleeful bunch of knitting-crazed bloggers that we are created in our chatter, and everyone’s car managed both in and out of the parking lot at The Morril Place Inn without having to enlist the brawn of the resident Olympian Weight-Lifter. It only took three of us to us rock Alison‘s car out of the snowbank, and you may be surprised to learn that it was without a single Bloody Mary, in spite of your thoughtful package. (Juno thanks you for that, by the way)
When Kay arrived with the squares, we admired the variety and the craftswomanship in their variety and number, and spread them out all over the Music Room and the table in the Dining Room while our hostesses, RoseAnne and Kristin, put out coffee and tea and muffins for mid-morning snack.
Juno, Wendy, and Kristen played Guess-the-Yarn with the squares, and Benedetta was pleased to be reunited with hers.
Here are some more pictures of people you virtually know, and their new friends. I have to say here, because I know that Kat will see these and roll her eyes at how badly photographed she is in both her pictures, that these are about as bad a photograph as ever I have seen of someone. She is lovely, and does not scowl nor does she have red eyes.
All the way here on the left is Dena, whom I want to point out to you
because should you ever visit us here in Boston, you need to know that she works at one of
the nicest yarn stores I keep in business, Wild & Wooly out in Lexington, where you’re going to have to go to see all their Rowan.
Once we set down to seaming, the day went quickly, and three new afghans came together while another had its edges finished off. Alison already has some nice pictures at her blog of the ones I missed, and no doubt there will be many pictures to come from the other bloggers present since everytime an afghan was held up for display, there were enough flashes popping off to illuminate the finale at an Aerosmith concert. My favorite was Maddie’s blanket that Benedetta sewed together and the one Amy is holding up behind Joseph, who kept her company for much of the time between pizza for lunch and scones-with-jam-and-cream for Tea. I handed out doorprizes so that everyone got a souvenir, including the yarn you sent, a bunch from my stash, goodies from the Inn, and gift certificates from Kate who really wanted to come from Paris, but couldn’t find someone to feed her husband while she was away.
Later in the afternoon, and sadly, after Kay left, Candace Eisner Strick dropped in for late Tea, and spread out on the table all manner of yarns and her patterns for the hangers on to roll around in. This was, of course, when the weight lifter decided to walk through on his way to dinner. What must he have thought?
I just wanted you to know that we all enjoyed your thoughtful package and the aerosol cheese, which was just icing on the cake for a glorious day of company and making beauty for chilly souls elsewhere in the world. Thanks so much to you and Kay for letting us be part of the Afghan Along, and I promise to have the edges on that last afghan knit up and sent off before too long.
With Love,
Julia and the Boston Seamers
14 comments
Now that’s my idea of a party! Looks like you gals had great fun. 🙂
Ah….what a party. Since I left town on Friday, I didn’t see your Friday post noting that I was knitting a sweater for the sew-up. Well, you saw the sleeve still on the needles, and I confess that it was only Sleeve 1. Ah, well, a beat-up OLD denim sweater is better than a new one any day. Plus I had my Emma accessories, which don’t exactly say ‘I am a knitter’ as much as they say, ‘Emma is an awesome knitter and she lovingly accessorized me for this event’.
The party was stupendous!!!!! You have an incredible local support system in place. It was so cozy and had such a great knitterly ambiance.
My special thanks to everyone for putting up with Joseph for the first 3 hours (you know, before he finally went into Charming Mode). He had a great time and he is hocking me to package up the finished afghans and mail them to Afghanistan TONIGHT.
Julia, thanks for being such the hostess with the mostess and boy, am I ever glad I said something about your fabulous Magpie sweater. I plan to look it up in the magazine later this evening. My recollection is that in the original the background is royal blue, but maybe I’m thinking of another one from the same era.
Love, Kay
Wow! That looked like such fun! Good for you all! Some day when I’m visiting the area (DH is from Boston) you’ll have to tell me where to go for a local SnB — the Boston crowd seems like a great one! Jenifer
It looks like you all had a lovely time……how fun! How fun too to see some familiar faces of newly made friends. Isn’t the fiber and blogging community wonderful!!
Nuthin’ beats a good gathering of fiber friends united in a good cause. Glad you all had fun!
Ah, Julia! Such a group! What a splendid event. There’s nothing like a B&B full of knitting maniacs, a pile of squares, and a small boy. Thank you so much for making this happen–it truly is amazing to think that you would take the time to pull off such a warmhearted gathering. xoxoxoxoxoxoooo!
Great pictures! What a wonderful day it was. Thanks so much for organizing it all and making it so much fun!
cheers! thanks for the reporting & the photos of the beautiful afghans. i love the bright & cheery ones too!
especially with the snow that’s coming down, AGAIN!
-kaf
What a wonderful day! Thanks for being so welcoming, and for everything you did to make the day such a success. Hope you’ll drop by WW soon!
I love sewing up parties, and this one looks like it was a blast.
thank you for organizing everything, and thanks to (through you!) the keepers of the Inn who were wonderful hostesses! (especially the one who had the great name 🙂 The sweater you had on was beautiful, and it was fun to see your sweater in progress in person. I had a wonderful time!
How unfair that *after* I leave Boston and move to Montréal, I discover you and this great group of women…whiiiiine. Looks like you had a wonderful time! I think I would have felt better about rocking my car out of a snowbank this morning if I had been fortified by aerosol cheese…
Great job on the afghan! And I love the Pensive Kid pose with afghan backdrop 😉
Interesting report and a great party! Wonder if we’ll ever get something like this organized for the tiny island of Singapore?
Love the “Discreet Brown Bag”!
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