Archive for December, 2006

Textiles Museum in Washington, DC

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

Today my dad suggested going to see a movie, but the only thing that vaguely interested me was the Bond film, which he’d already seen, so I did a little online research and discovered that there’s a textiles museum in DC!  So we went there instead, and spent three hours talking to one of the [...]

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Crabs and children

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

I’m at my dad’s now, having been unmercifully stuffed with blue crabs for the last few hours.  I LOVE blue crabs, and of course you can’t get them in San Francisco, so whenever I come home they always buy me a couple dozen blue crabs to eat.  Whew!  I’m positively gorged.  Blue crab is SO [...]

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Ribbon yarn and kid mohair

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

I’ve just ordered some ribbon yarn from Webs year-end closeout sale, which features some incredible deals.  I’ve never tried weaving with ribbon yarn before, but I figure it should weave up quickly and be quite beautiful.  I’m tempted to buy some closeout rayon yarn so as not to waste the silk, but considering the vast [...]

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