AlisonH
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I was talking to Tina Newton of Blue Moon Fiber Arts on the phone the other day. (How’s that for name-dropping and borrowing some coolness factor. Go Tina!) I was just curious… Among other things, I had bought a skein of Rock Creek-colorway bamboo yarn to play with and make a scarf; that wouldn’t be named after…? Would it?
She laughed, and said, “There must be a Rock Creek in every state. But, yes.”
I grew up next to Cabin John Regional Park. My husband, in the next town over, grew up two blocks from Rock Creek Park, which runs a very long way through DC and along the DC/Maryland line. Tina had named this colorway after that creek. Turns out, she grew up two miles down the road from where I did.
It’s a delightfully small world out there
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LOL…in the short time I’ve been reading your blog, Alison, I’ve become convinced that your world is absolutely, freakishly, smaller than anyone else’s!
I begin to wonder, if we really looked close, how close you could find yourself connected to anyone on the planet. 🙂
Comment by Crafting Jen 08.06.07 @ 12:45 pmThis is me, fantastically jealous.
If you happen to find yourself on the phone with Ms. Tina again, tell her hi from me. not that she knows me. But I wanna be cool too. 🙂
Love. 🙂
Comment by kristine 08.06.07 @ 7:18 pmDid you ever find out who Cabin John was? We’ve tried several times to find this out. No luck.
Comment by Judy Foldi 08.07.07 @ 7:51 amThat is very cool.
A few years after we were married, I found out that my husband and I had been at the same Melloncamp concert in 1989.
I’m told bamboo yarns differ by what part of the plant they come from. The Blue Moon yarn is exquisitely soft, very nice stuff.
Comment by AlisonH 08.07.07 @ 12:04 pmOooh, I’ve been jonesing the Bambuu in that colorway since Stitches West. Thank you for the story behind the name. How cool.
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