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Friday, March 4, 2011

Fabric Finds: Favorite Local, Online Shops

Making your own clothes, decorations

My mom loves yarn. She is an accomplished knitter and fashions intricate, perfect, beautiful wearable art out of her yarns. She loves everything about shopping for yarn, both in person and online. For me, it's fabric. I couldn't tell you why, but I just love fabric. I don't just buy fabric, I use it to make all kinds of things for around the house. And, like most other fabric-lovers, I too, have a stash of The-Unused-But-Fabulous-For-Something in my closet. I like to make things for the house. I'm not versed in making clothing. It's so complex and I am so impatient. But I love being able to whip up a new pillow cover or to transform the colors in the bedroom by making a new duvet cover or bedspread. One of my favorite fabric haunts for …

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Hat City Kitchen Cooks Up Rock-Paper-Scissors Competition

50 gather for national competition spot

Fifty people gathered Saturday afternoon at Hat City Kitchen, 459 Valley St., for The Orange's first rock-paper-scissors, RPS, tournament. Two different tournaments were hosted, one for adults and the other for kids under 18. More than a dozen competitors from the New York tri-state area attended the event. Mike Cicora, of Iselin, won the adult tournament and qualified to compete in next year's World Rock Paper Scissors Society championship in Toronto. There is no qualifying competition for kids. The competition was hosted by Hat City Kitchen, HANDS Inc., University of Orange and the Orange Recreation Department. Watch the video for complete details.

Carol Selman

8:38 am on Sunday, July 25, 2010

Rock, Paper, Scissors rocks! When Molly Kaufman of Hands first asked me to write a preview story for Patch, I knew this tournament would be a winner! We played a tougher version as kids in Orange: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Match. Also tougher, as rock really would break scissors (your hand) --a blow to the hand; match would really ignite paper, (your hand) etc. Mostly boys played but I had an older …   more ›

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