Friday, May 10, 2013

Fiber Arts Friday and Maine

It's Fiber Arts Friday and I actually have some progress to show on my Irish Coffee sweater thanks in part to a book I have been listening to called The Burgess Boys:


                                                                                 


 This is the latest  from Elizabeth Strout who won the Pulitzer Prize for a previous book called Olive Kitteridge  and it was hard to put it down,  er, stop listening to, thus all the knitting progress on my sweater.   My trip included a few days in Maine and I thought it would be fun to listen to a book about a Maine family, the Burgess boys and their sister, and so I downloaded this from Audible.com.  The writing is well done, and accurately portrays life in a small town in Maine for the locals who are dealing with a declining economy and population and, at the same time,  adjusting to a new and growing population of Somali refugees.  The Burgess boys left Maine years ago and are New York attorneys who come back home to help their nephew through a crisis.  It's now on the NY Times Bestseller list.

Here's the progress on my Irish Coffee:

                                                                       


Lots more to tell about my trip to Maine and the yarn shops I stopped to visit, but more about that later.  I'll leave you with a picture of the historic Portland Head Lighthouse which is probably recognizable to just about everyone who has a lighthouse calendar or has seen the Edward Hopper painting of it :


                                                                                   


To see what others are up to on Fiber Arts Friday, head over to Andrea's blog.                                                                                                                                                                  

6 comments:

  1. Lots to catch up from your trip! So nice that you had a chance to visit Fae. I have been looking at her pictures on Facebook, very interesting space she has there. What a great view from the rooftop.

    Did you see the Irish Coffee sample at Green Planet? Those cables look like a lot of fun to make.

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  2. I've never been to Maine, but I have this fantasy that I would love it. :-)

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  3. Oh, I need tips!!! We are leaving June 1st for our Maine week. We are flying into Bangor and then heading South to a place called Corea. What was your favorite place? Any whale watching? White water rafting? Love the Irish Coffee!!!

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    1. The Old Port section of Portland is nice; lots of cute shops and restaurants. Tess' Yarn has a shop there. Of course, stop and have a lobster roll or a lobster dinner. Very affordable there! The Portland Museum of Art has a very nice exhibit going on - Picassos, Gaugin, and others. The Portland Head lighthouse is a short drive from there and is located in a beautiful spot on the ocean. Halcyon Yarns is in Bath and is a really nice yarn shop and is worth the stop if you are near there. I'll post more pictures on my blog in the next day or two. Have fun there!

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  4. Love the progress on your sweater.
    One day I shall visit Maine. I know too many wonderful fiber artist there and want to meet them...and see the sites.

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