Boston Knittahs

This Memorial Day my friend Dea and I decided to go to Boston for some patriotic fun. Living in DC is not enough! Living literally within 5 minutes of Arlington Cemetary isn't adequate! I needed some serious old-time flavor for this holiday weekend.

Veterans of the war for Independence are vets, too.


While I was there I'd like to say that we were seriously cultural. We meant to do cultural things like go to the Fogg to see modern art. And go to the Aquarium so I could be terrified by the sharks. Did you know that I am actually phobic about sharks? So much so that even at 27 years of age my mother had to hold my hand while I kept my eyes firmly closed, under the shark tanks at SeaWorld? At any rate, there were no sharks or wacky paintings in our trip. We were too distracted by the sights and tastes of the North End. We did check out the Freedom Trail.


And there may have been a bit of Sam Adams.


But most importantly, there was a heck of a lot of food.


And even more yarn.




And I also worked on some past projects, too. Like the first Monkey sock, which I knit up to the toe almost completely while on vacation.


For future Boston visitors, I found Windsor Button to be a very interesting craft shop, with just bazillions of kinds of yarn. It's very nice and the staff were helpful, but I admit it was more utilitarian than I'm used to for a yarn shop. They do carry some swank buttons, of course! I also went to Woolcott, where I picked up the beautiful pink Cotton Bam Boo I'm using for the eyelet cardigan depicted on the cover of the Jo Sharp book. It's like knitting a dream, and I found the shop to be very delightful. Prices were right on point (surprisingly so, for Harvard Square), and I was really entranced with the shop.