Trips to Somewhere Cool!
If it has anything to do with fabric, fashion, design, production, and especially shopping, it must be worth going, right? Well, I did go on a couple of small trips with my students this year and we had a great time. Organized to be fun, relaxed, include a bit of eating and shopping for good materials, what more could you want?
I am planning on organizing more jaunts around New England. There are so many great places to go see in relation to sewing. I mention in my current newsletter a variety of interesting destinations:
Here are some ideas:
Attend the Iris Apfel Exhibit at the PEM Tour the American Textile History Museum
Take a Trip to the Portsmouth Fabric Co
Go to Sawyer Brook in Clinton
Day trip to Osgood Textiles in Springfield
Visit a Sewing Factory
To find out more about each of these places, following the links in the list. Better to go get the info directly from the source. Here are some of my comments. The Iris Apfel exhibit is only at the PEM until February 7th, so I would vote to go there sooner rather than later. The American Textile History Museum is in Lowell, is easy to find, has parking and has a great exhibit demonstrating the history of textiles. They also have a really nice cafe in the lobby. I never tire of seeing this museum. Also, in Lowell, are the New England Quilt Museum and Georges Textiles (mostly Home Dec Fabric.)
Area Fabric Stores to check out, could be as close as the Quilter’s Way, in West Concord, or the Fiber Loft in Harvard, MA. They are a good resource for knitting, weaving, spinning and fibers. The Boston ASG had a meeting there late this Fall. I think any place that is within an easy day trip can be considered.
You tell me what you want to see or where you want to go, and I will try to accommodate your request. The best days for me to lead a trip, are Mondays, Saturdays and Sundays. Please give me feedback and I will let you know what I have set up. We can probably do any of the trips with just 5 people and who knows what the upper limit would be? Being an informal trip, we would carpool, get there at the appointed time and if possible, stop at a pre-arranged location for lunch. (preferably a nice soup/sandwich kind of place) There is a lovely orchard near Sawyer Brook in Sterling which serves lunch and homemade bake goods. And earlier this year, we went to Popovers for lunch on our trip to Portsmouth, NH.
Click here to go take our “Field Trip” Survey. I’d like to set up our first outing for January.
