Below is a list of all the stores in the area that offer discounts for Common Cod Guild Members. So the next time you visit these stores feel free to flash your membership card.
ADDED:
I believe the discount is 10%. You need to bring your membership card as proof of membership.
Scenes from a Guild Meeting
The photo above is from our first meeting. Splityarn took this photo and posted it in our flick pool here. This is a great help to people like me who relish reviewing the meeting even hours, days, months later. I always forget to take a photo so I ask that you share with us all if you can.
OK… drum role please… many thanks to the following:
We are proud to announce that Clara Parkes, author of Knitters Book of Yarn and Knitters Review, will be speaking to us at the next meeting. It turns out that we are growing too big for our current space so we may need to change. More on that in the coming month.
Finally, I will be collecting caps Knit One Save One at the next guild meeting. I will be posting more about this charity drive on my site later this week. Thank you to all who are helping me out
In an effort to promote new fiber enthusiasts and local yarn shops we will be inviting local yarn shops to be a part of the meetings by filling two positions durring the social hour. The Beginner Buddy will be someone who can help new enthusiasts with getting started. The Project Doctor will assist people who are stuck within a project, but need more technical assistance.
Woolcott and Company have generously offered to provide a Beginner Buddy and Project Doctor for the November meeting. Sean (the owner) will be the Beginner Buddy, he is an avid knitter and a spinnner. The Project Doctor will be anounced at the meeting.
I hope that in the future we will have people from all the walks of fiber activities come and be a part of the group. I myself could use some time with a beginner buddy for crocheting and felting. The activities that these positions can help with will depend on the local yarn store and what activities they support.
If you are a part of a local yarn store and would like to sign up to do this for a meeting please feel free to drop me a line at guild_at_commoncod_dot_com. I will do my best to share this oppurtunity with all who are interested.
Ok… enough said. I can’t wait for our next meeting. I look forward to hanging out after the speach…
-Guido
Sheep in sweaters from Martha's Vinyard Fiber Farm
Susan Gibbs of Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm is coming to Boston area to speak to our group at our second meeting. She is coming to talk about her farm and how knitting plays a role in our lives, especially in times of turmoil. She has been very supportive of the Guild and I am really looking forward to meeting her in person.
Here are some updates since the last meeting:
* Over 100 people are now members of the guild
* There is a bar within 10 feet of our meeting room (cash only)
* The website is repaired
* The guild is being talked about at Rhinebeck
Finally, below is a link to the poster for this event. Please print it out and post it up at your local yarn shop, coffee shop, hardware store, or other community board. This will help us be more sustainable as a group and save me from buying more yarn from traveling around to the shops.
Here is the Poster.
While my lean cuisine heats up in the office microwave I thought I would post about guild stuff, here goes:
That all being said
bing! there goes the microwave… gotta run
OK.. so the harlot will be in town soon and we are putting together stuff for next year…
and then I go and crash the webpage a little.
Please bear with me the site will be fixed over the weekend.. .
-Guido
The first guild meeting was an overwhelming success… We had a packed house and Franklin was amazing(as expected). Thanks to everyone who came out to the meeting. Based on the sixe of the group from last night, we are going to need a bigger boat room for the next meeting.
I (Guido) do not have any photos from the event because I was runnig aroun like crazy durring the meeting. Thankfully, Liz started a flikr group to share photos from the event. If you took some photos, please share them with the group, if you do not use flickr please comment with a link so that everyone can see the fun you had.
Finally… thanks to all the people who volunteered last night to get the first meeting of the ground (in particular order):
Bryt (facility and operations queen)
Patience (Check In Table)
Deb (Name Tag Table)
Hapto (floating / people wrangling / drawers of fish)
Alanna (Name Tag Table / Bouncer / transporter of all things guild)
Alasdair (Check In Table)
Lucy (Name Tag Table / giver of door prize)
and
Everyone else who made last night happen…
The guild’s first meeting is approaching. This is exciting both as an event and a literal meeting of each other. It’s really exciting for me to meet with new and old fiber friends and enjoy a little fiber goodness together. This first guild meeting just blows my mind.
It is my great pleasure to have Franklin Habit as our inaugural speaker. I thought he would be an appropriate first speaker for many reasons - here are a few:
Franklin is currently completing two projects that I think are of interest to the guild. One is a book of humorous cartoons about fiber related topics called It itches. The second project is a series of portraits about knitters called the “1,000 Knitters Project.” “1,000 Knitters” has brought Franklin face-to-face with many knitters all over the world. I look forward to hearing about his experiences in the fiber community.
Franklin’s visit is sponsored by two of our friendly fiber companies, Mind’s Eye Yarns and Tactile Travel. Please patronize our generous sponsors.
In addition to the knitting programming section (the speaker), we will also have a social section at the meeting.
Lucy of Mind’s Eye Yarns will be in charge of the Teaching Nook during the social section. She will be there to assist beginners with knitting and spinning. She is an avid sock knitter who has been teaching people in her shop to love their fiber for over ten years. Lucy is a close friend of mine and I am so happy to have her support in forming the guild and growing the fiber community.
Finally, we have opened up membership to the guild. Currently we need you to fill out the membership form, print it out, and send it and membership dues to us. Alternatively, you can bring the filled-out membership form and dues to the first meeting.
Please help us out by sending in your membership form and dues by Tuesday, September 9th. If you cannot get it in the mail by that date and would like to come to the first meeting, please bring a check and your printed-out membership form to the meeting and we will handle the membership at the meeting. We will have extra membership forms available at the meeting.
See you on September 12th at the first meeting!
Dude… (yes, I say dude)
It’s only the first day of our guild and already I have news to share with everyone. Our friends and co-hosts at Porter Square Books have shared some more details about the Harlot special event:
7:00 pm on Oct 15th
St James’ Episcopal Church
1991 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
The church is a few minutes’ walk down Mass Ave from the Porter Square T Station. Porter Square Station is on the Red line and on the Fitchburg commuter rail line. If you are driving in, I recommend parking at Alewife Station and taking the T into Porter Square. Check out the MBTA website for more details about how to get to Porter Square.
Don’t know how many people the church holds or how we are going to do crowd control. Event planning for the Harlot is really an awesome experience. Perhaps I should email the people who are running the Olympics in China for some pointers.
That’s all for now… but … one more time…
Dude…
Boston is filthy with folks doing fiber activities. The many shops, groups, and blogs are a testament to this fact. Many of us have closets overflowing with our projects and would keep sheep on the Common if it were possible.
So in honor of you fiber faithful… we bring you the Common Cod Fiber Guild website. This site will be a place to see what events we are planning and to help answer questions about the guild. We will be posting guild business, upcoming events, and general fiber goodness.
Please have a look at the pages listed on the right hand side. Each page should prove useful for learning about what this guild is about and what we are planning for 2008. This is version 1.0 of the website and we hope that over time this site will be more useful.
Our first meeting is going to be on September 12th, please have a look at the events page for more information about all the upcoming fun.
Welcome to the guild website and I hope to talk to you soon,
Guido Stein
President
Common Cod Fiber Guild