Laurabelle's Blog

Last night a Seattle radio station called The End hosted a concert by a UK band called Muse that has recently become very popular over here. It was at a club called Neumo's in Capitol Hill; I'd heard about Neumo's (which is located at the same spot as an old club called Moe's — get [...]

Saturday Jeff and I went down to Olympia for Mother’s Day. While down there, we made a stop by Capital Footwear, a hippie shoe store where the staff care about comfort and quality and only sell shoes made by fairly paid labor. (For example, they don’t sell Doc Martens any more because that company opened [...]

I feel that I should attempt an explanation of why I chose to name my crafty-knitting-sewing-stuff category Huswifery. It’s not because I’m renouncing my feminist beliefs, it’s because of a wonderful poem by Edward Taylor, a seventeenth-century American Puritan. I know the poem because the Mount Holyoke Glee Club sang a setting of it that [...]

It’s been a busy weekend, so I’m going to blog about it in installments. On Friday evening iKnit (the iSchool knitting club) had its first beginning knitter’s workshop. At least, Jenine (the organizer) called it a workshop, but the teaching was decentralized. We had five teachers and three learners, so people paired off one-on-one and [...]