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August 30, 2007
Two recent conversations
Friend: So you were away?
Me: Yeah. We went to a fiber festival outside of Boston.
Friend: A fiber festival.
Me: Mmm hmmm.
Friend: You mean people sitting around eating brown bread?
Standing in front of my office where there is a tall, thin bookcase sort of thing full of buckets overflowing with yarn
Friend 2: Kate, I thought your stash was in Tadpole's closet.
Me: It is.
Friend 2: Then what's all of this yarn for?
My family has often used the word "intervention" when talking about the yarn I have but after seeing what some of you have (I won't name names) I'm very confident, I have a small, manageable stash. Not as small as Friend 2 who has such a petite stash that it might not even fill one of those giant plastic bags... Maybe I should take her to Vermont Sheep and Wool.
Posted by kate at August 30, 2007 07:16 AM
Comments
funny. i just had conversation no. 1 as well!
Posted by: valentina at September 4, 2007 04:42 PM
Vermont looks like a lot of fun this year, I'm going and taking a few classes, then hitting the Magic Hat brewery afterwards, Yay Beer!
Posted by: Amber at September 4, 2007 10:27 AM
Wow. Brown bread. Snort!
Regarding the prior post, I love the shot of Tadpole's feet. They'll just keep growing!
Posted by: Erica at September 4, 2007 01:38 AM
Wouldn't want to hang around for the final day of a fiber festival, if it involved excessive bran!
Although, it would be an interesting line-up of booths!
Posted by: Christine at September 3, 2007 05:11 PM
such are the perils of hanging out with muggles.
Posted by: julia fc at September 3, 2007 11:05 AM
Ha! That sounds like the conversation I had with my in-laws when I told them I was going to meet a blog friend.
Sister-in-law: So, you're going to have lunch with someone you met over the *internet*?
Me: Yeah, she's an obsessive knitter like me and we have similar tastes in design.
Sister-in-law: Are you sure *she* isn't a 45 year old man?
Posted by: connie at September 1, 2007 01:12 PM
HAHAHA! Fiber. heeheehee
Posted by: Sarah Carey at September 1, 2007 08:44 AM
love the photo. and the conversations.
Posted by: michele at August 31, 2007 04:18 PM
It's true that "fiber" has taken on a very different meaning in my life than, say, five years ago.
Pretty web!
Posted by: alison at August 30, 2007 11:42 PM
What a great picture!
That is the only spinning going on at my house, too!
Posted by: Holly J at August 30, 2007 05:45 PM
My husband encourages me to keep buying yarn. That way he can keep justifying buying more power tools!
Posted by: liz at August 30, 2007 12:50 PM
Friend 2's stash isn't a stash. that's a shopping trip.
i was talking to a work friend one day and when i told her i wanted to take another spinning class she thought i meant spinning on a stationary bike.
Posted by: maryse at August 30, 2007 11:32 AM
*Ahem* I know which of which stash you speak. It is a thing of wonder and beauty.
Posted by: Bookish Wendy at August 30, 2007 10:01 AM
Isn't it fun to have friends out side of our fiber lives? They are always entertaining;-)
Posted by: margene at August 30, 2007 09:59 AM
Fiber festival = brown bread - I love it! Thanks for the laugh.
Posted by: Bridget at August 30, 2007 09:35 AM
Hahahahahaha!! Those made me laugh. Love the web picture.
Posted by: Tonia at August 30, 2007 09:15 AM
Heh heh. Fiber festival. If only the All Br*an people knew how literally knitters and spinners understood their tagline, "Make fiber your friend."
Posted by: Steph VW at August 30, 2007 08:49 AM
Funny! I too have a spider web outside my sliding door to the porch. Love how the morning sun catches the web and lights it up. I've been doing more on the Schacht now Alice is gone. It's getting better, though not as good as I'd like it to be. The learning curve continues.
Posted by: Manise at August 30, 2007 08:47 AM
Brown bread. How did you answer that? You know fiber enthusiasts, we like to be "regular."
Posted by: Jenn at August 30, 2007 08:22 AM
