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(1) The sweater is stuck until my colleague, a knitting guru, is able to look at the bind off for the neck.
(2) Kim’s hat is stalled because I am running out of yarn, despite the fact that the owner of Seaport Yarn felt that one skein would be enough because:
(a) […]

Purl Soho, (www.purlsoho.com), a really beautiful yarn store where I got my Manos del Uruguay for My So-Called Scarf, just opened an equally beautiful fabric store down the street called Purl Patchwork. It is literally the cutest store ever! Check out another blogger’s photos on her flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/disdressed/sets/72057594083640613/ (Thanks H-Dub for pointing me to these […]

So I am currently knitting the turtleneck on my sweater and I came across a problem.
First part of the problem: I had some stitches on holders, and then I had to pick up some around the neck to knit up. I looked in the Montse Stanley book and old Montse made all sorts of sniffy […]

Kate from Knit Lit started a craftster and flickr threads to try and figure out the Ferragamo bag, and a knitter named Marjan figured it out! Check out Marjan’s Flickr stream and Kate promises to put up the instructions soon. Awesome!

On Saturday, I conned Adam into going to Seaport Yarn with me. I totally loved this store. It’s like the office that Catherine Keener and John Cusak work in in Being John Malkovitch. You go to this totally nondescript office building near South Street Seaport, and then you take the elevator (with an empty spooky […]

 
Photo by Francisco.
This is F-Ro’s birthday gift last year, hence my need to keep up the crafty theme. In case you’re wondering, it’s a homemade care bear (or a store-bought one that had a tummy transplant and embroidery-tattoed paws) with chilis, because Francisco and I think it is hilarious that every time big corporations want […]

Photograph by baba lu.

Here’s F-Ro wearing the first hat I ever knit. I didn’t use a pattern–I just winged it using some number 8 circular needles and sport-weight wool-ease. The top is a little messed up, due to the lack of pattern, but all in all, I think it […]