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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Make Mine Local’s Host

October 27, 2009

WACKY, WONDERFULLY CREATIVE, EMPOWERING, and a woman you do NOT want to mess with! That’s Shannon Okey, our guest speaker and host for the Guild’s first Fiber Fashion Showcase. At the November 13th meeting, Shannon will introduce the local designs heading down the runway and answer the much mused question, “Can you make a living [...]

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Make Mine Local Coming Soon!

October 9, 2009

Boston Fashion Week was  last week, but Make Mine Local The Common Cod’s first Fiber Fashion Showcase will glide across our Friday, November 13 meeting.   Come and catch the fashion breeze of Boston area designers and guest hostess Shannon Okey of Knitgrrl Studio.  It’s time to celebrate this year’s theme:  Fall in New England . Really, [...]

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Kristin Nicholas Uses All the Colors

September 26, 2009

Hi everyone! Quick introduction, I’m Emily Wagner, I’ve been a member of the Guild pretty much since the beginning last year, and I figured since I’m always taking pictures at the meetings and blog all the time anyway, I would ask Guido if he wanted me to post about our meetings and events! I also [...]

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Season 2 Begins With The Joy of Color!

August 28, 2009

Our second season begins with a bang – a bang of color, that is! Join us for “The Joy of Color! (and Why You Should Not Be Afraid to Knit With It)” with Kristin Nicholas on Friday, September 11th at 7:00 pm at the Stata Center at MIT. Kristin Nicholas loves color. It oozes into [...]

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Kudos and Cookies

July 14, 2009

It was a weekend of kudos and cookies at the Cod! Kudos to our fine president for whipping up MY-T FINE programming this year.  I’ve really enjoyed our speakers, but most of all, meeting new fiber lovers and enjoying the work you bring to the meeting.  Thank you Guido for taking this idea and running! [...]

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The Big Season 1 Finale

June 29, 2009

July is the end of our first guild season year and we have two exciting events in two days.It’s been an amazing year and July is action packed Dyed In The Wool Friday July 10, 7-9pm, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge Barbara Parry is coming to talk to us at our July Meeting about her amazing [...]

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Site Underconstruction

June 19, 2009

Had to make a site update and now the imagery is off a little… this will be dealt with over the weekend.. sorry for the akwardness Watch Into Eternity the movie online Solos aka Descendents movie for sale Identity Theft movie for sale Watch Meat and Potatoes Season Two movie online Splendor in the Grass [...]

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May Meeting Beats On

June 4, 2009

Andrian Paquette and Ruth Sunn of Slater Mill shared history AND the future with us at our last meeting. For me, this talk resonated throughout the month for many reasons: 1) Slater Mill is such a great resource for craft lovers! Catch a class or exhibit, plan a party or tour the Museum. We’re lucky [...]

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Time and a sense of Place

May 4, 2009

We’ve got the sense that time flies by, because Whoosh, here we are getting ready for Friday night’s guild meeting.   May 8, 2009 7 pm MIT Room 54-100 (we’ll have a greeter downstairs by the elevator). Lewis Hines traveled the US, documenting the status of child workers in textile mills during the early 20th [...]

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