Happy Fourth of July!

For the record, I didn't take the wonderful photo of the fireworks.  A friend from Provincetown took it a few years back. She is a an amazing photographer.

The holiday, being in the middle of the week, doesn't give us much time to party, visit or relax but it is still wonderful that we celebrate on the actual holiday and not at the convenience of making it a Monday holiday for a three day weekend for some. Having two family members that share our nation's day of independence is pretty neat.  My brother in law thought as a child he was REALLY special because everyone celebrated. with fireworks even!

There was no work on my Windley this weekend.  So my goal was shot with holes but it is okay!  We had a surprise visit to the store and our home by my sister and her significant other from Maryland!  Imagine getting a call at 8 am call from ypour sister, listening to dogs barking-  WAIT - my sister doesn't have dogs... OMG!   Those are our dogs barking!  She was at the entrance gate to our farm.  They stayed for Sunday and Monday then left late last night to fly home. 

For those who have family close by, you are blessed.  We also had a surprise visit from Evie, who was in our cooperative of local artisans  years ago then moved to Philidephilia to be closer to her husband's job.  She and her husband decided to take a spur of the moment trip to New England.  We are blessed to have made some really wonderful friends through our cooperative and store.

Being an independent yarn store, we will be closed tomorrow only, opening again on Thursday. We hope to visit with family, pet our animals and say a silent t"hank you" to the men and women who fight for us every day for the independent our forefathers fought so hard to achieve. Happy 4th of July!

Knitting in Public

This week is World World Knitting in Public week.  It started off yesterday and runs through next Saturday.  We thought this was the perfect time to re-create ourselves and try to get our blog up and running again.  We are most fortunate to have Martha working in our store who blogs often and has offered to help!

It is funny to have a week to celebrate knitting in public when many of us who do portable hand work often have that project bag stuffed in our handbags, as an extra tote "just in case" there are a few moments between our daily rush to get a few stitches done. Please, no knitting and driving.  Only knit if you are the passenger.

The weather is great, we want to be outside more, why not knit in public?  Take it to the park, the kid's games, a cook out, the doctor and dentist office.  Think of portable projects like socks, gloves, mittens and baby projects.  We can fill your head with ideas.  Just drop into the store, Tuesday throught Saturday.

We have knitting "in public" in our store, the second Monday night of each month (it is this Monday everyone!) from 6:30 to 8:30 PM as well as every Thursday morning 10 AM to 12 noon. Both sessions are complimentary.

Natick Annual Art Walk

We are preparing for the Art Walk, Thursday, June 17, 5:30 to 8:00 PM. We are one of the highlighted stores for their theme this month of "Agri-culture". We invite all of you to participate! There will be new hand painted rovings, yarns prepared by Debbie and hand crafted gifts placed in the store just for this evening. We would love for you to stop in to knit, crochet, bring your drop spindles or wheels, quilters are most welcome also as we join in celebration of our heritage and show off the fiber arts.

This will happen come rain or shine. If nice weather you will find some of our co-op artisans on the sidewalk and in the store. We will have some chairs for outdoor sitting also.