comments: hop on the bus, gus
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you make me want to go on a yarn adventure!

Have fun at WEBS. Let us know if it's worth the trip :)

posted by Lisa on march 19, 2005


Thanks for that- my mom lives on upper west side. now, another good excuse to go visit her. Sounds intriguing.
beautiful day today for a trip to WEBS. havent been but heard it is fun! Cant wait to see what finds it's way home with you.
have a great trip!

posted by beth on march 19, 2005


The *best* time to go to Webs is during one of their tent sales. Hopefully they'll give you a little flyer about it while you're visiting today. The next tent sale is in May, the weekend after MS&W.

posted by Jenn on march 19, 2005


ooh, yeah, we should have a blogger get-together after the WEBS tent sale...of course, that's also getting close to MA sheep & wool.

Hope you found some great stuff at Webs--that's my LYS!

posted by Katy on march 19, 2005


I keep hearing about the yarn bus, and it sounds like such a blast! I want to check out WEBS, maybe I'll grab some local SNBers to trek up there together for a day of gal-pal yarny fun.

have fun!

heide

posted by heide on march 19, 2005


Have fun today! Should be a great trip with great company! Wish I was there.

Thanks,
Cara

posted by Cara on march 19, 2005


Alison,

Please take a picture of all the socks worn on the Yarn bus. Just the feet ma'am, just the feet.

:)kathyb

posted by kathy b. on march 19, 2005


Oooh WEBS. Have a great time, and I want to hear all about it tomorrow.

I dunno. On one hand that yarn bus sounds cool, on the other.... Maybe I'm just feeling too self conscious for my own good.

Maybe we need to do a Knitsmiths meetup for some NYC yarn shopping!

posted by Colleen on march 19, 2005


flying fingers is literally a half mile from my dad's house. i'd spent the summer there once, and my dad said 'i read a yarn store is opening'. i got so excited, and then they opened a week after i went home. very expensive, but wonderful stuff- and the owners are really friendly and helpful!

posted by rachel m on march 19, 2005


Your yarn excursion sounds like so much fun - more fun than I will have taking 5 ten year old boys to a PG movie this afternoon (if only I could figure out how to knit in the dark)!

posted by leslie on march 19, 2005


oh boy... WEBS! the first time i went in there, i swear i had to sit in the reading section for a few minutes till my head stopped spinning. i come from a small town with a SMALL lys, there's no way i was prepared for what i saw there :) have a great time!

posted by alice on march 19, 2005


I just love the idea of a yarn bus. Sounds like heaven. Now if only I could get my local bus to do the same :) A. x

posted by Amelia on march 19, 2005


I saw the Yarn Bus written up in the New Yorker, too! I liked the closing sentence best, I think: 'As Braken prepared to pull away from Bloomingdale's, her first stop, she squinted in the rearview mirror and asked, in a cheerful voice, "Can you look and make sure my needles aren't caught in that tree?"'

posted by Katie on march 19, 2005


What fun! Get some good stuff for us vicarious knitters :)

posted by Vicki on march 19, 2005


hilarious...we should get one to shuttle us all to knitsmiths on sundays...so perhaps if you buy more yarn today at webs, you'll have more "older yarn" to swap tomorrow?

my list includes
9 skeins noro kureyon
3 skeins of noro multi
6 skeins lambs pride worsted
2 skeins silkgarn tweed
2 skeins fortisimo fingering weight (grey, white and blk)
5 skeins of trendsetter "charm"...i don't do novelty
2 skeins of superwash lambs pride bulky (blue)
2 skeins of "kool-ade" dyed yarn that i got at bizarre bazzaar (60 yards each and they don't match)

and some other odds and ends...

see you tomorrow

posted by lisa b on march 19, 2005


The yarn bus cracks me up. Not as much as it cracks non-knitters up (I think they are worried about our plan to take over the world), but it cracks me up.

posted by Stephanie on march 19, 2005


Both Webs and the Sunday swap sound like tons of fun!! I want a shuttle from here to NYC (waaaah).

posted by Deb on march 19, 2005


Coolie-o! Don't you love the NYer?

I got my socks in the mail from Anja this weekend - they're great! I think that I commented on her blog, but it was hard to tell if it went through or if her comments are delayed. I blogged about it as well, so please stop by and check out my fabby retro ribs if you get the chance.

Thanks so much for an awesome knit-along - you're the hostess with the mostess!

posted by Julia on march 20, 2005


hey, yarn shuttle bus? that sounds like fun! I love a good yarn trip. :)

posted by Leigh on march 20, 2005


YEAH, I've heard that my sockapalooza socks made it safely to Stephannie (AND she likes them!), and since I've already worn my socks quite a lot (lovely warm) I guess the sockapalooza adventure is over for me. Thanks a lot for organizing this. It's been great fun!!

posted by Helene on march 21, 2005


Stephanie, is the plan to take over the world off now?! Or are you just trying to keep it on the down low? Oh yeah, we're just silly ladies in our yarn buses, gathering and plot-, um purling. Right.

posted by alison on march 21, 2005



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