You can learn to knit for free in Bryant Park. And the research and main lending libraries are right by!
Oddly, Knit New York is downtown — a few blocks east of Union Square. Why didn’t they do it in Washington Square Park?
Also, as a new weird place that sells yarn, I noticed that Ivy League […]

So it all began on Friday night, when I used a gift card given to me by Sarah to buy the sock book, Knit Socks! aka the book shaped like a sock. Apparently I was so sucked into my new excitement about a future of sock knitting that Adam came right up next to me and […]

I’ve been thinking about making socks and at work knitting today, my co-worker got fed up with her sock yarn and needles and gave them to me.
The yarn is super cute, I think it is Trekking in the shade pictured. I am grateful because it’s like a ready-made sock kit, free! She is threatening to take […]

Pattern:I started with the calculations from this site, and then I ended up switching to the instructions on Crazy Aunt Purl’s site here.
Yarn: A little less than one skein of Louet Sales Gems Sapphire (their bulky weight yarn) from Seaport Yarn
Needles: Most of it was done on Clover 9 circular (24″) and then at the […]

I bet you thought I only wrote about knitting and I never actually knit. Ha! Look at the post below–an almost finished object. I finished the sweater while going to and from Coney Island.

I am wearing my So-Called Scarf and knitting on my Lexie Barnes knit bag that Adam got me for Christmas. I knit […]

It’s almost a finished object! Because all it needs is weaving in of the ends and a washing and a blocking.
Pattern: Knitscape custom pattern (this is Artfibers custom version of the Knitware software)
Yarn: Artfibers kyoto, 4 skeins
Needles: Clover circulars in size 9 and 10.5 for the body and Balene circulars in 9 for the neck […]