Fiber arts night/swap

Last month, we started a weekly free fiber arts gathering on Wednesday nights at Artisan's Asylum. Mostly, this meant people knitting and crocheting, or learning more about those, though the main point person loves knitting machines and other tools, so she'd often bring them in to show/share how they're useful (and fast! and possibly hackable).

I thought it would be a good jump-start to the year to have a fiber-focused cruft swap; the Asylum has one monthly for random stuff (useful stuff you no longer want offered to someone who does, with the main rule being that you have to take back whatever no one else picks up), but yarn and fabric isn't the focus. I sent emails to lists, and posted to the book of faces, and in the end, a decent number of people showed up, not all of them to hang out doing things to fabric or yarn later, but that was fine. I figure the more people who know it's happening, the better. And we did have at least half a dozen people who were there to work on projects/learn something new. So I'm counting it as a success. And if you're local and want to have people to socialize with or learn from, come on by :-)

Chocolate CSA!

I just found out that there's a Somerville chocolate CSA! I'm impressed that this exists, and the descriptions sound fabulous, though the prices are... pricey.