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Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye is located right across the street from Star Market, in this pretty pink house. Their classes are very reasonably priced and they're very friendly.

Tracy: Mind's Eye has a surprisingly large selection of yarns spread through the two rooms of the store. Most of the needles I saw there were wooden, except for a few very large guage ones in plastic. I prefer metal needles personally. They also have some knitting magazines. I bought some neet yarn from the sale basket (25% off!!). We should definitely go and sit in on an hour of their Wednesday knitting group sometime. It starts at 7pm.

Looking for links, I found this site reviewing a lot of yarn stores in our (general) area. I also found another local knitting blog. And a Massachusetts knitting and spinning blog.

Newly discovered random facts

I just found out yesterday that my dad used to be a pin boy! When he was about sixteen, but only for a few months because he claims the job was very dangerous due to flying pins. Like being a fighter pilot or spy. Not for the faint of heart.
He also told me that duckpin is different from candlepin and was the most popular type of bowling in Rhode Island when he was a pin boy. They use the small balls but the pins are fatter on the bottom half - like a squatting duck. Seems like I should have been able to figure that out, but I always thought candlepin and duckpin were the same.

Magpie moves to Davis

from many of the creators of Bizzare Bazar, Magpie is moving from Huron to Davis Square!