Archives » April 2006

  • Bryant Park Knitting

    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 [...]

    Thursday 27th April 2006 - 10:06:05 PM | Comments (4)

  • The sock saga begins…

    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 [...]

    Sunday 23rd April 2006 - 11:03:33 PM | Comments (3)

  • Sock it to me

    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 [...]

    Thursday 20th April 2006 - 9:46:17 PM | Comments (2)

  • Finished Object: Bowl-ish Hat

    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 [...]

    Sunday 16th April 2006 - 8:46:11 PM | Comment (1)

  • Next stop: Finished Object

    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 [...]

    Sunday 9th April 2006 - 6:08:47 PM | Comment

  • Almost a Finished Object

    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 [...]

    Sunday 9th April 2006 - 5:46:06 PM | Comment