Vote for the Halloween Party movie event!
Be sure to cast your vote for the Halloween Party next week (Thursday, 6-9 pm) – to help determine which movie we will show. We had to remove Nightmare Before Christmas because Disney won’t allow us to show it They are showing it in select theaters until Halloween. I have added Corpse Bride for those of you who love Tim Burton. I am closing the voting tomorrow, so get it in soon! Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

And we thought we would never see the day...
Karida of Neighborhood Fiber Co and I go way back. We started our businesses around the same time, having met at a local knit shop that we both worked. While Karida was writing her business plan for her DC themed yarn line, I was starting Knit-a-Gogo, Inc. and teaching classes all over the DC metro area.  I helped her score a job at a local non profit that I had connections to so that she would have some steady income while expanding her business. My first yarn purchase for the company was from Karida. I bought some bulky weight fiber to use for my beginner knitting classes, and I kept her yarn in the trunk of my car, lugging tubs of it into classes for students to buy.  I was a “

mmm...gelato
There are few things on this earth as heavenly as real Italian gelato. Last night after I closed up the shop, Phillip and I ventured off for our bi-annual trip to Leesburg to the Hamburg Doner. I first heard about this place on the radio and in an attempt to surprise Phil, I stuck him in the car over a year ago with a promise of something wonderful and a long car ride. He was very doubtful but when we finally arrived at our desti

psst
New event posted over here

hmmm
anyone else notice a problem here? These are the sleeves of my sweater. They are distinctly different lengths. I believe the problem might be in my interpretation of the following: “Work the two previous rows another 13 times.”  The first time I read that, it meant a total of 13 rows in addition to what I had already knitted. The second time I read it as it is meant: a total of 26 more rows in addition to what I had already knitted. Lucky for