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coco s mami coco s mami wednesday march 16 2011 textile museum with a4a on saturday feb 26th ann rubin from afghans for afghans had a meet and greet at the textile museum in washington dc it was an informal gathering of about 20 folks one woman had come all the way from new york and 2 from philadelphia many of the attendees drove 2 or more hours to be there i was pleased to see my picture on the a4a s blog here s the link to the blog post i am working on a pullover for the current campaign due at the end of april posted by barbara deg at 9 44 pm 2 comments thursday august 26 2010 sad season two stories this week in the news about my favorite group the swell season my friend kelli alerted me to the first a concertgoer jumped to his death onto the stage at the swell season concert in saratoga california he landed near the lead singer glenn hansard the ss has has little about it on their webpage though i read there has been chatter on other social media they are offering grief counseling to those who were there they cancelled their las vegas show but offered ticket holders the chance to use the tickets at other shows then yesterday i heard the band announced a hiatis and some assume this is the end for them but glenn tweeted if anyone is going to announce the end of the swell season it ll be us forget what anyone else says were not breaking up they will be going to brazil this weekend i would love to be there i have been fortunate blessed to have seen them five times twice at the 9 30 club in washington dc at meyhoff hall in baltimore and in pittsburgh twice at the byham glenn s band the frames are planning a tour this fall and i am already on the lookout for tickets i am feeling sad for the person who took his life his family and friends and those who were there i am so sorry this happened at a ss concert i just doesn t seem possible i love the gift of their music and will continue to be one of their biggest fans forever posted by barbara deg at 4 23 pm 3 comments sunday may 23 2010 the merry month of may adventures in yarn buying may has been jam packed with activities starting the very first weekend the maryland sheep and wool festival happens the fir st weekend of may every year the weather this april and may has range d from days in the 60 s to 90 s may 1st and 2nd were very hot not the best for yarn shopping in huge crowd s i started out by going to the howard county fairgrounds on friday night to meet up with a ravelry friend knitredsox who had moved from maryland to chicago and was coming back for a msw weekend the columb ia sip n knit group had a bbq to prepare for their big weekend they were hosting the podcasters meet and greet on saturday we did a quick tour of the fairgrounds to figure out where vendors were because there were lots of changes this year saturday i left home early luckily i am only about 30 40 mins away and arrived at the fairgrounds at 8 30 this year i made a list which worked well for me it helped me focus an d shop with a purpose my bad because i always advise folks not to go early but by 8 45 i was at tilli thomas booth and she was open i sna gged 5 skeins of yarn at great prices then i hit miss babs and got 2 skeins of her show special merino and bamboo sock yarn i also pi cked up a yarn met er from carolina h omespun i then bought a couple of plants and brought my purchases to car went to the c olumbia spin n knit tent to knit and wait for the podcasters scheduled at 11 00 they got caught up in traffic and arrived at 11 45 after the meet and greet i met up with my friend becky from pittsburgh for more shopping the heat was hard to take and i found that once you sit down it s hard to get up by 4 30 we wer e baked and she headed back home with her friend kate i had a ticket to the after party but decided to go home to shower once i got home i realized there was no way i was goin g back so i jumped on ravelry and within an hour found someone looking for a party ticket she was thrilled and i was happy it worked out i have done some additional yarn buying since msw last weekend i went to pittsburgh as visited natural stitches where i bought brown sheep nature spun soc k yarn to knit ode to socks which in corporate several lines fro m a pablo neruda poem and are shown here and here must be logged into ravelry then this friday night at stitch n pitch the washington nationals vs the baltimore orioles i snagged some miss babs team color sock yarn in red and blue from fibre space just that morning i had been looking at yarn colors for some red sox good juju socks my peeps at snp posted by barbara deg at 11 09 am 3 comments tuesday march 16 2010 spit on me dickie dc irish writers festival photos books on display in busboys poets a fan with claire kilroy the lads dennis philip o ceallaigh and chris agee in busboys poets the first dc irish writers festival sponsored by solas nua was five days of intellectually stimulating craic the theme unexplained of the festival was spit on me dickie a sort of an inside joke with dubliners of a certain age opening night thursday march 11th featured three northern irish writers with a reception sponsored by the northern ireland bureau there was an open bar good wine and sam adams hot hors d oeuvres and a table of cheese olives etc and great conversation before the readings glenn patterson a novelist from belfast read along with nick laird poet and novelist and chris agee editor of irish pages moderated glenn had been in dc before for solas nua as well as one of the instructors at the summer school i attended at queens university he was even funnier and more charming than i remembered another writer christine dwyer hickey referred to him as glenn fred astaire patterson as apparently he danced backwards up a grand staircase on thursday night nick laird read first 2 poems from his new collection one titled light pollution and the other i think was titled pug he also read from his recent novel glover s mistake glenn read from his latest book once upon a hill which is non fiction the discussion was facilitated by chris agee an american who has lived in northern ireland for 30 years the topics of the discussion included identity nick said he is often labeled a british writer but an irish poet as well as how northern ireland is similar to eastern europe which has to do with being on the periphery of europe friday night s event at the washington arts club featured christine dwyer hickey she read from her recent novel last train from liguria as well as from her novel tatty she is a wonderful writer and a real dub during the weekend she talked with us about how difficult it is to be a woman writer in ireland there is an assumption that irish women write chick lit christine said that if she hadn t been published in the mid 90 s she thinks there d be little hope of getting published now we also talked about the lack of decent independent bookstores in ireland and christine mentioned one in rathgar that she discovered saturday claire kilroy read from her new book is all the names have been changed claire writes exquisitely and is a graduate of trinity college creative writing program at the oscar wilde center sunday chris agee read from his 2009 book of poems next to nothing described here by the publisher next to nothing records the years following the death of a beloved child in 2001 though bereft of belief in the poetic outcome compared to the apocalypse of the loss itself one sense of the title the fidelity of these poems to the heartscapes of grief constitutes nonetheless a work of genuine honouring spare delicate and deeply moving his reading of the poems was very emotional for him and for the audience he said he would not continue reading from the book in the future it had taken him eight years to publish the poems that were written over several years he also edited a collection of poetry from northern ireland the new north contemporary poetry from northern ireland 2008 which pushes the boundaries of who is considered a northern irish poet also sunday was philip o ceallaigh no apostrophe a short story writer who lives in eastern europe read a story from the pleasant light of day he shared that he loves hemingway s short stories but not his novels monday my friend joan had a brunch for christine dwyer hickey which was great fun joan s scones were awesome i missed the final reading on monday night from gerard donovan but my friend maureen went and later joined the author and others for dinner at a chic washington restaurant it was a wonderful five days i have a pile of new books to read now all i need is time posted by barbara deg at 10 30 pm no comments sunday february 14 2010 cabin fever i have gotten emails from friends in texas brazil and spain about all of the snow we got yesterday suffering from serious cabin fever i headed for the yarn on the farm sweet sale at dancing leaf farm in rural barnesville maryland my mission was to buy a skein of green yarn for the ravelry st patrick s day swap there were very few cars on the road once i got off the interstate but the roads were amazingly clear i spent about 2 1 2 hours at dlf there we ren t a lot of people coming by the snow surely kept them away so dalis and i chatted and knit and i took some pictures of the sheep of course sheep go into the barn as soon as they know someon e is trying to take a picture i couldn t decide which green yarn to buy so i bought a skein of sock hop and a skein of tango of c ourse i couldn t resist 2 skeins of salsa in the fog colorway a grey and white blend posted by barbara deg at 6 53 pm no comments saturday january 16 2010 new year new post wow i haven t posted for over a month this promises to be short i am excited about actually knitting through a lot of my stash thanks to my friend knitcrit s her ravelry name ravelry group lotsafos10 you have to be a member of ravelry for the link to work some famous podcasters have joined cuteknitter missviolet and i am sure there are others there some lists are very long maybe folks who have lots of time knit in their sleep or have lots of ufo s that re less than 50 done and qualify for making the list actually i just counted 29 on my list whoa that s more than 2 a month january is when i start thinking about my summer well with the economic woes i don t know what i ll be doing some ideas that range from possible to improbable are uk knit camp at the university of stirling in central scotland during the second week of august 9th august 2010 13th august 2010 with the ravelry weekend taking place on 13th 14th august 2010 there s a trip to shetland following this but i have to be at work by august 16th academic schedule isn t flexible rent a house on cape cod outer cape for a week the golden gate fiber institute summer intensive posted by barbara deg at 11 57 am 2 comments saturday december 5 2009 swell season again i am late posting about the swell season frames concert at the 930 club in dc on november 9th it was awesome of course but there are disadvantages to going to a standing unseated show it s hard to see i think there was an above average number of guys over 6 feet tall in the audience also standing for over two hours gets old fast here s the set list from the show their encore included four songs i knew they d be doing high horses as an encore cuz it wasn t in the show and o ne of the best songs from the new album strictly joy another favorite is low rising and the video seems to confirm my impression that this album is about the end of glen and marketa s relationship be sure to check out the video of red chord the final song glen sings the parting glass as a moving tribute to liam clancy the last of the clancy brothers who passed away december 5th 2009 now t hat i have given up my subscription to the irish voice i miss out on this kind of news which doesn t reach mainstream media glen notes the pivotal role that the clancy brothers had in bringing irish music to america and he notes of course it was here already irish traditional music in fact was kept alive in america when it was on the wane in ireland the years i lived in boston there were a number of accomplished musicians who worked during the day as streetcar drivers house painters and at other blue collar jobs and at night and on weekends played traditional music fiddler larry reynolds brothers paddy johnny and mick cronin and joe joyce there were many nights when i sat in living rooms va halls and other gathering spots listening to them play just for the joy of it an era is ending posted by barbara deg at 1 52 pm 2 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom mrs tigglewinkle i love hedgehogs currently reading tatty by christine dwyer hickey divisidero by michael ontaadje irish christmas stories ii by david marcus africa doesn t matter by giles bolton recent reads the lacuna by barbara kingsolver that old cape magic by richard russo the best of nell by nell mc cafferty big fat love by peter sheridan glover s mistake by nick laird casting spells by barbara bretton the water s edge by karin fossum twilight big fat love by peter sheridan people of the book by geraldine brooks brooklyn by colm toibin a darker domain a novel by val mcdermid all the colors of darkness by peter robinson home before night by hugh leonard unaccustomed earth stories by jhumpa lahiri the pleasures of eliza lynch by anne enright water like a stone by deborah crombie the white tiger by aravind adiga the long walk home a novel by will north yesterday s weather by anne enright 50 books in 2009 visited countries visited 22 states 9 77 create your own visited map of the world or knitting daily friends mostly knitting blogs ask the bellweather bionic knitter cape sox knitter celtic memory yarns geocaching knitter knit purl mama knit crit knitters and crocheters care knitting aloud sisters that knit together stitch dc blog swallow studios ireland the crocheting commuter the hook and i the purloined letter the wooly way of ireland subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me barbara deg silver spring md united states my knitting etc blog get s its name from the label i created for children s aran garments i designed and handknit about 20 years ago coco s mami i was part of a crafts cooperative at the time the christmas store coco is my son s nickname and mami is spanish for mommy view my complete profile blog archive 2011 1 march 1 textile museum with a4a 2010 5 august 1 may 1 march 1 february 1 january 1 2009 17 december 1 october 3 september 1 august 5 june 3 april 2 february 1 january 1 2008 40 december 1 november 3 october 7 september 2 august 3 july 1 june 2 may 6 april 2 march 2 february 4 january 7 picture window theme powered by blogger