SingleWorkingMama

One of my goals for this trip to Boston was to find a local knitting/yarn boutique and get some “Boston Yarn” to create a souvenir with.

Just like a candy shop!

My brother Buzz suggested we stop in at Woolcott and Company, a cute garden-level shop near Harvard. I was immediately impressed by their wide selection and hypnotized by the vast array of colors possibilities for my next project.

His friend John was with us, and didn’t necessarily seem thrilled at the prospect of tagging along, but complied out of courtesy.

The two engineers in the group noticed a machine right away and asked about it. It was a tool they use to roll yarn into the perfect ball. The clerk gave them a demo, and it was pretty cool. I think John was pretty happy he came along when it was all said and done!

Getting a demo.

I picked out a pretty, celery green cotton yarn, (after being given a detailed tour of the cottons they had in stock) and have started knitting a thin scarf. I’m going to try to find a bead store to find some cool glass beads to finish the ends.

The beginning of my Boston Scarf, accompanied with some wine and cheese...

Boston Yarn store visit mission accomplished!

Woolcott and Company
61 JFK St
Cambridge, MA 02138-4931
(617) 547-2837

I’ve been learning to knit.

In addition to my kids, I have generally been caught up in technology, with my career and personal interests. Digital photography, blogging, social media and current events have been my core focus for years and years, and through all of that I have let my older hobbies of creating arts and crafts fade away.

Over the holidays, as I reflected quite a bit about my life in general, I decided to take up knitting, and it has been a therapeutic relief from some of the chaos that typically rules my brain!

I started with a book, and quickly learned that it wasn’t going to be an effective way to teach myself. YouTube followed, and I took it up a notch by signing up for a knitting class at Main Street Yarn Shop in Hartford, Wisconsin.

The class was really fun, and I enjoyed sitting for two hours with women I’d never met before. It was cool to see eight other people who wanted to learn this skill for many different reasons.

The store is adorable, and I wish it was closer to my home. You see, when I signed up for the class, I wasn’t paying close attention and thought it was in Hartland, which is only a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from my house! But, the class is only three weeks long, and I’m already glad I did it. Two more weeks, and I should have one hell of a dishcloth.

There is something very fascinating to me about taking a string and making it into something much more substantial. While I’m still very green when it comes to knitting, I’m definitely making progress and have gotten my kids interested in it. I’m hoping that as Drue gets older, she’ll want to learn and we can share the hobby.

Brett even wants to learn, and if he still does when he’s old enough, I’m all for it! He actually said a few weeks ago, “Mom, it will be so nice when all free of us can knit togever.”