From the Camilla Valley Farm website
The Wooly Board is fully adjustable for waist (12-62 inches), shoulders (24-62 inches) and neck. In addition, the arms can be adjusted both close to the body (19-25 inches) and at the cuffs (4-24 inches) allowing the sweater to be perfectly shaped as it dries.
The picture below shows the Wooly Board in use.
From the latest KNIT NEWS from Interweave Press
Podcast interviews with best-selling author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee from SOAR and with Knitty.com's Amy R. Singer from TNNA kick off new online initiative. 
We're forging ahead in this advanced technology era we live in, and we've added podcasts to our website. (For those of you that don't know, podcasts are audio files that you can download and listen to.) The first two podcasts include a laugh-out-loud interview between Spin-off editor Amy Clarke Moore and best-selling knitting author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, humorist of the knitting world known by fans as The Yarn Harlot.
The interview was recorded recently at SOAR, the Spin-off Autumn Retreat in Granlibakken Resort, Tahoe City, Calif, where Pearl-McPhee delivered the keynote address.
The other interview available is with Knitty.com's Amy R. Singer, author of No Sheep for You: Knit Happy with Cotton, Silk, Linen, Hemp, Bamboo & Other Delights (Interweave Press, April 2007). Interweave Press caught up with Singer at TNNA in San Diego this past January.
Both interviews are available as MP3 files:
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Eric Malinowski shows us that it’s slim pickings for the birds, as the arctic air stretches across the United States. These four bird feeders are in the back of his house, in Hamburg, New York. He’s said he’s trying to watch out for our feathered friends, but with 2 feet of snow on the ground, it’s rough. It was just 9 degrees outside when he took this photo.
Monday, February 5th, 2007
Monday A.M. (Begins 6 am Eastern, 3 am Pacific)—Vocal favorites: choral, lieder, chanson, oratorio, opera arias and more.
20th Century Monday: (begins noon eastern, 9 am Pacific): Two by Stravinsky, Rake’s Progress & Oedipus Rex; between them we’ll hear Korngold’s remarkable Die tote Stadt, and we end it all with Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti.
Monday Evensong (begins 6 pm eastern, 3 pm Pacific)—regular repeat of Sunday Choral Special.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Tuesday A.M. (Begins 6 am Eastern, 3 am Pacific)—BOYCE: Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day ROBERTO SIERRA: Bayoan IVOR GURNEY: Songs. DELIUS: Song of the High Hills. RESPIGHI: Cinque canti all’antica Anon.: Three spirituals for chorus. SCHUBERT: Schwanengesang. STENHAMMAR: As You Like It RAVEL: Five Popular Greek melodies. WALTON: Songs after Edith Sitwell
Big Ticket Tuesday (noon eastern, 9 am Pacific—repeats Friday 6 pm eastern)—In Memoriam Gian Carlo Menotti, Part 1:
Tuesday Night at the Opera—WFMT/European Opera Premiere:
Bayreuth 2006—Siegfried.
That will be followed by the comic opera of Franz Joseph Haydn all about couples stranded on a deserted isle, L’Isola diabitata.
(Only first time operas are listed by the day they first appear)
Monday, February 5, 2007
6:00 AM Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
4/2/1960-Mitropoulos; Guarrera, Milanov, Bergonzi, Tozzi, Flagello
9:00 AM Puccini: Tosca — SIRIUS PREMIERE!!!!
1/7/1956-Mitropoulos; Tebaldi, Tucker, Warren
12:00 PM Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
12/15/1973-Maag; Moffo, Alva, Shane, Hines, Gramm, Di Franco
3:00 PM Verdi: Aida — SIRIUS PREMIERE!!!!!!!
1/7/1989- Levine; Millo, Toczyska, Domingo, Milnes, Plishka
7:30 PM Bellini: I Puritani (LIVE FROM THE MET)
Summers; Netrebko, Kunde, Vassallo, Relyea
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
6:00 AM Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
12/8/2001-Levine; Morris, Mattila, Heppner, Grove, Polenzani, Allen
12:00 PM Puccini: Madama Butterfly
4/16/1960-Mitropoulos; Kirsten, Fernandi, Roggero, Sereni
3:00 PM Verdi: Rigoletto — SIRIUS PREMIERE !!!!!
1/15/2000-Jurowski; Nucci, Jo, Alvarez, Hawlata, Livengood
8:00 PM Janácek: Jenufa (LIVE FROM THE MET)
Belohlávek; Mattila, Silvasti, Silja, Very
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
9:00 AM Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
12/27/2003-Levine; Bayrakdarian, Giordani, Del Carlo, Carfizzi
12:00 PM Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore
2/19/1972- Franci; Scotto, Bergonzi, Sereni, Corena
3:00 PM Mozart: Don Giovanni — SIRIUS PREMIERE !!!!!!!
2/14/1959-Böhm; London, Steber, Hurley, Della Casa, Valletti,
Flagello, Uppman
Friday, February 9, 2007
8:00 PM Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (SEASON PREMIERE: LIVE FROM THE
MET)
Gergiev; Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Alexashkin
Saturday, February 10, 2007
1:30 PM Leoncavallo/Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / I Pagliacci(LIVE
FROM THE MET)
Armiliato; Zajick, Licitra, Eddy, Delavan/Stoyanova, Licitra,
Ataneli, Braun
From our blogging friend La Cieca:
A propos of the death of Gian Carlo Menotti, an essay from the G. Schirmer web site by Paul Wittke. Actually it’s specifically about Samuel Barber, but it does dwell at some length on the composers’ romantic relationship
Gian Carlo Menotti
July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007
Composer of a traditionalist bent who aimed to create operas that would appeal to a wide audienceGian Carlo Menotti was one of the most significant composers to come forward after the Second World War. A self- confessed and unrepentant traditionalist, he continued to write prolifically in his own vein, even after the fashion for his kind of music-drama had passed.
He achieved fame when his first full-length opera, The Consul, caught the imagination of the public after it was staged in New York in 1950. A newspaper article inspired the work.
Gian Carlo Menotti in His Own Words
From today’s Italian newspapers:
“What will the critics write when I die? I really don’t know. And I hope I’ll have better things to do than read the newspapers, then. When I was alive, they wrote all kinds of things. Better yet, the Italian critics mostly wrote that I am not a contemporary composer. Because most critics want to be the ones who decide everything about art, about time, about life itself. Success doesn’t count; no, it even makes you suspect.
What is fame? Years ago I had to drive from Spoleto to my hometown, Cadegliano, in the North. We were driving too fast, and close to Varese we were stopped by the police. I didn’t have my driving license. I’m Gian Carlo Menotti, I said. Who? I was finally recognised by the lady who ran a bakery in my home town. She didn’t know my work, she just remembered me as my momma’s son”.
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Whitney Balliett
The sad news at The New Yorker today is that Whitney Balliett, the magazine’s longtime jazz critic, died yesterday at the age of 80. Our website has posted two classic pieces: a Profile of Bobby Short and a piece on Sonny Rollins. Balliett’s Collected Works sits on my shelf next to Andrew Porter’s anthologies — the New Yorker’s main legacy in music criticism.
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