Ignite Craft: Boston

December 5, 2010

The Common Cod Fiber Guild is proud to produce a new event for crafty people in the Boston area. Ignite Craft: Boston is an evening of presentations sharing passion, insight, and the fun of craft.This event will bring together many different voices from the Boston craft community. The part of this evening that is most [...]

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Knitting It Old School

November 2, 2010

Common Cod Guild Meeting Friday, Nov 12 at 7pm 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA Room 123 Guild meetings are free to members and guests may attend for $5 Debbie Brisson of the Stitchy McYarnpant blog and Caro Sheridan of the splityarn blog will join the guild to talk about their new book “Knitting it Old School”. [...]

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Hyperbolic Crochet

August 22, 2010

Hyperbolic Crochet Common Cod Guild Meeting Friday, 7pm September 10, 2010 32 Vassar Street, Room 123 Please RSVP for this event Daina Taimina, author of “Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes”, will join the guild to explore geometry and its historical connections with art, architecture, navigation, and motion, as well as the history of crochet, which [...]

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A Lifetime of Textiles… Loro Piana, Linhe, and Lowell

July 7, 2010

7pm, July 9th, 2010 Common Cod Guild Meeting 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA Room 32-155 Jim Coleman , a local fiber community power house, has spent his life dedicated to the textile industry. In his career working for Forté Cashmere Company in Woonsocket, RI, he has traveled the world to bring in the finest quality products [...]

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Artful Fiber

April 5, 2010

Is it May yet?  Adrienne Sloane will be our next speaker at the May 14 guild meeting. Artist and community builder, she’ll show us how knitting and crochet artists are reinterpreting and liberating themselves from traditional forms.  The work they’re creating is showing in museums and galleries here in Boston and around the world..  We’ll [...]

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Brooklyn Tweed meets the Cod

January 25, 2010

Hope to see you at our March 12 meeting at 7pm when knitwear designer and photographer Jared Flood (aka Brooklyn Tweed) comes to Boston.  We’ll meet at 32 Vassar St (Stata Center) in Cambridge, room 123, near the Kendall Square Red line T stop. The Pacific Northwest native has been living in Brooklyn since 2005, [...]

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Knitting on the Edge (of the internet)

December 31, 2009

Jan 8th, 7pm 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA Room 32-123 The guild is thrilled to announce Julia Farwell-Clay will kick off the FiberCamp Boston as our guest speaker. While still shocking to many internet geeks, developers, and even many in the fiber community, knitting is a very powerful force on the internet. Julia Farwell-Clay, Features [...]

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January, 2010

December 18, 2009

Bustling could describe the dock of the Common Cod this month.  Folks are signing up for FiberCamp, building session topics, and organizers are lining up sponsors and vendors for the event.  We’ve made videos and with your help, are spreading the word. But let’s not forget our speaker for the Friday night meeting.  Julia Farwell [...]

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Open Registration for FiberCamp Boston

December 10, 2009

Whew!   Register now for FiberCamp Boston on January 9 and 10, 2010 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. What is FiberCamp?  It’s an open agenda weekend where you can ask, share, and hang out with people who are passionate about spinning, crochet, knitting, weaving, dyeing, felting, surface design, photography or social networking. Our regular [...]

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Make Mine Local Live Stream

November 11, 2009

SHOW BEGINS at 7PM EST, Friday, November 11th Make Mine Local Fiber Arts Fashion Showcase 2009 from Brilliantvideo on Vimeo. Thanks to my friend Skip at Brilliant Video Productions we will be streaming the the fashion show. You can also see the video on Brilliant Video’s Vimeo Channel directly. OK… we will try to live [...]

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