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  • Lemon drop sock: WIP

    I’m sort of participating in Knitting Olympics, in that I’m knitting and watching them. I did cheat (not with steroids), but by casting on the toe and knitting it before the opening ceremonies. This yarn’s color is “Lemon Drop” and the stitch pattern is a bit lemon drop-y too. Adam, without seeing the label, remarked [...]

    Tuesday 16th February 2010 - 10:07:12 PM | Comment (1)

  • Progress report: Sherbe(r)t socks

    I was inspired by this Fig and Plum post, which she called “The UFO Chronicles, Part I.” I, too, have many Un-Finished Objects, so perhaps blogging about them will inspire me to get a move on and finish them. If only I didn’t have startitis.
    Anyway, the socks. They’re almost done–I’m doing afterthought heels on them, [...]

    Sunday 22nd November 2009 - 11:28:27 PM | Comments (5)

  • Helllooooooo

    Hello blog readers! I am still alive! I sort of fell off the blogging wagon there for a while, for a variety of reasons, most of them good–I’ve been working on a big freelance project in-house (meaning I go into an office) and I had a bunch of other freelance assignments, all of which were [...]

    Sunday 15th November 2009 - 8:58:56 PM | Comments (2)

  • California, here I came

    Sorry for the silence–I’ve been busy, um, going to the gym, and freelancing, and I don’t know, reading Wikipedia? (Wikipedia is a serious time-suck. I can’t stop click on weird links. I now know way more about Monaco’s royal family than one person could ever need to know.) Sometimes I think I need a firewall [...]

    Wednesday 16th September 2009 - 10:14:39 PM | Comments (2)

  • Socks, two at a time

    I temporarily lost my blogging mojo last week, what with the heat and all. And trying to slog through George Eliot’s Middlemarch.
    That book is no laugh a minute. Actually it has this problem that many multi-plot novels have, I think, which is that the reader tends to only be interested in a couple of the plotlines, [...]

    Wednesday 12th August 2009 - 4:09:55 PM | Comments (4)

  • Sock at the game

    Last week, a friend of mine who has season tickets to the Cyclones (the farm team for the New York Mets) out at Coney Island, invited us out to watch a game with her. I recently saw a game at the Mets’ new Citi Field (which replaced Shea Stadium) and I was surprised by how [...]

    Thursday 9th July 2009 - 1:43:27 PM | Comments (4)

  • Second flamingo sock

    I don’t know what it’s been like in the rest of the country, but this summer has been the year of non-stop summer rain in New York. Like EVERY DAY. I think we need to build an ark soon.
    Here’s my latest second sock. I like knitting socks because they have definite stopping points…knittttttttttt and then [...]

    Thursday 2nd July 2009 - 9:48:20 PM | Comments (2)

  • FO: Loud monkey sock

    We came back from our annual trip to the Jersey Shore yesterday and it rained (a lot), but fortunately, not for the whole time. I turned the heel on the sock on the bus going down to the shore, and on one of the first days of downpour, we went bowling (photo 1). We did [...]

    Monday 29th June 2009 - 1:28:43 PM | Comments (2)

  • The High Line

    We went to the High Line at night last week. (The High Line is a new elevated park built on the remnants of an old elevated railroad track in downtown Manhattan.) It’s quite beautiful and currently stretches from the Meatpacking District down to about 20th Street or so.)

    Walking down the High Line makes Manhattan look like [...]

    Wednesday 17th June 2009 - 3:19:35 PM | Comment (1)

  • Knitting and Lady Liberty

    Far in the distance–if you squint hard enough–is the Statue of Liberty, and the cuff of the second loud monkey sock. I admit it–I like hideous sock yarn. I think a little vulgarity in life is fun, plus I can’t resist brightly colored skeins’ siren call: “I am so ugly and bright…please buy me!” Anyway, [...]

    Monday 8th June 2009 - 7:09:49 PM | Comment

  • 9″ Hiya Hiya needles

    I’ve taken up sock knitting again, and moving my socks out of hibernation. The squares and the sweater are just too difficult to knit on the subway. I’m trying something new with these Loud Monkey socks–I’m knitting them on 9″ circulars (Hiya Hiya brand). It’s definitely a different feel than DPNs. I think I prefer [...]

    Friday 5th June 2009 - 2:58:10 PM | Comment

  • Flowers and squares and hobbits, oh my.

    Some random thoughts: I happened to catch Steel Magnolias on television the other day, and I realized why so many commenters pointed out that Julia Roberts’s character had died of diabetes, not cancer, when I brought it up. The whole movie was about diabetes! As a closet Brothers and Sisters fan, I was amused to see [...]

    Wednesday 3rd June 2009 - 4:43:02 PM | Comments (3)

  • Knitting and knits in action

    Here I am, wearing my shawl and eating a hot dog, during a cool evening last week. (This is on a pseudo-boat, the Frying Pan.)

    We took an impromptu trip on the Staten Island Ferry on Friday night. Opportunity to knit, of course! (P.S. I happened to work on a freelance project last week about movies [...]

    Tuesday 2nd June 2009 - 12:05:34 PM | Comments (3)

  • Knitting and restaurants

    On Saturday night, Adam and I tried to go a bunch of restaurants, all of which had an hour and more waits (sometimes, I’m like people! We’re in a recession!), and at some point, we were waiting for a table at Pastis.
    I like Pastis a lot–it’s a fake Parisian brasserie and I think it’s considered [...]

    Tuesday 26th May 2009 - 9:22:06 PM | Comment (1)

  • Shawl in action

    I know some people knit stuff and then never wear their finished objects, but I actually do wear most of mine a lot. I thought I would include a shot of something I made  in action, so you can see how I actually wear stuff, not just when they’re styled for the blog, which tends [...]

    Sunday 17th May 2009 - 9:36:44 PM | Comments (2)

  • “Geriatric Brokeback Mountain”

    I love the flowers every spring–look at these irises! I’m almost done with the shawlette–I have a few more stripes to go and then I’ll block it and see how it goes.
    I looked up my horoscope, and apparently, last week, Mercury was in retrograde on the 6th! Perhaps astrology is true. I think that part [...]

    Monday 11th May 2009 - 10:08:06 PM | Comments (2)

  • Random update on various topics

    I’ve been thinking a lot about how much we, as bloggers, share on the internet about our personal lives. I like to steer toward less info about my personal life and more about knitting, but I wonder if it’s weird NOT to share about our personal lives occasionally. I know that I was really saddened [...]

    Saturday 2nd May 2009 - 9:06:27 PM | Comment (1)

  • Japantown and Kinokuniya

    My dad was at the hospital yesterday for exploratory surgery  (they’re still not sure what disease is causing his tumors), so I ended up spending a lot of time at San Francisco’s Japantown, wandering the dollar stores and eating udon. (Japantown is a few blocks away from the hospital.) And of course, going to Kinokuniya. [...]

    Wednesday 15th April 2009 - 12:19:51 AM | Comment

  • Shawlette progress

    Here’s the shawlette so far–it’s a good traveling project because it’s easy and portable. 
    In other news, I saw I Love You, Man, which I kept calling P.S. I Love You, Man, and it was hilarious. I highly recommend it. I think my friend was sort of horrified that I laughed through the whole thing–I think [...]

    Tuesday 7th April 2009 - 8:17:07 PM | Comments (4)

  • Status updates

    Am I the only person who finds status updates on Facebook a bit stressful? Mine are decidedly un-witty. I don’t think I can Twitter, because even writing Facebook status updates makes me anxious. Anyhow, I’m blogging from my parents’ house, because my mom suggested, correctly, that I should refrain from visiting my dad while I [...]

    Friday 27th March 2009 - 6:32:25 PM | Comments (2)

  • Sock goes to the emergency room

    My dad had to go to the emergency room, and he’s still in the ICU (far from my threats of play-by-play recaps of Gossip Girl, much to his relief, I suppose. Though I noticed the ICU had a waiting area with many copies of The Economist and a copy of The Thorn Birds, which I [...]

    Thursday 26th March 2009 - 4:34:06 PM | Comments (4)

  • Traveling sock in California

    So, I’m here in California, and here’s how far I am on Adam’s second sock. Just a few more stripes to go before it’s done! It’s nice to have some knitting while I go around in the car with my parents (I’m licensed to drive, but am such a terrible driver, I really can barely [...]

    Monday 23rd March 2009 - 5:12:09 PM | Comments (2)

  • The Orchid Show and the traveling sock

    The colorway name of this yarn is “Secret Garden” and at first I was like yeah, right, if by “secret garden” you mean NEON*, but I went to the Orchid Show at the Bronx Botanical Garden this weekend, and it’s true, many flowers do come in shockingly bright colors. (*Also, the name “secret garden” sounds [...]

    Monday 16th March 2009 - 9:04:40 PM | Comments (3)

  • Travel knitting

    Okay, apparently none of my readers wish to weigh in about the location of the sock. Anyway, I went with Adam (and the sock) to Milwaukee for the weekend for a funeral, and we ended up staying a couple of days afterwards as well. I wasn’t sure what the etiquette was for blogging about a [...]

    Tuesday 10th March 2009 - 6:35:08 PM | Comment (1)

  • Where in the world is the traveling sock?

    The sock and I had to go out of town. Where is the sock? (There is no prize, um, except bragging rights that you guessed right.)

    Monday 9th March 2009 - 11:00:17 AM | Comment

  • Sock progress

    Adam’s sock. In the picture above, I used the white balance function, in the one below I did not. Small things. Big differences. Anyway, both of these photos were taken outside my window…it’s like that movie Smoke, but with knitting.

    We had a big snowfall here in New York (the top photo was taken last Thursday). [...]

    Monday 2nd March 2009 - 8:56:25 PM | Comment

  • Putting the “and” in Law and Order

    In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories. [thunk thunk]<–That’s the Law and Order scene change sound, duh.
    And this is my story, of being an extra on Law and Order. [...]

    Thursday 19th February 2009 - 2:04:34 PM | Comments (2)

  • Traveling scarf follows Obama

    I totally meant to blog this story a while ago, but forgot all about it. Kathy Kiely, a political reporter for USA Today, followed the Obama campaign last year, and knit a scarf during all of the campaign stops. She also kept a little photo journal of the traveling scarf and wrote a nice article [...]

    Friday 6th February 2009 - 12:21:28 AM | Comment

  • Final post of 2008!

    I recently came back from a week in San Francisco, which from a knitting point of view, was a series of very small, minor, semi-unfortunate events.
    When I was a kid, my parents snapped a series of photos immortalized in the family photo albums. I am sitting in a rowboat, and at first I am proudly showing off [...]

    Wednesday 31st December 2008 - 5:29:51 PM | Comments (3)

  • Traveling Project

    I’m almost done with my scarf, though I’ve already knitted nine more repeats than the pattern, and I haven’t decided how many more to do. I’ve also started another project, which will be the subject of my next post. <–And if that preview sentence isn’t the most exciting one you’ve ever read, then clearly you haven’t [...]

    Saturday 15th November 2008 - 1:08:41 PM | Comments (2)

  • Voting and knitting

    I voted and I knitted.

    Tuesday 4th November 2008 - 8:09:16 PM | Comment (1)

  • Knitting, a thing of beauty. Or not.

    I found this blog dlittlegarden that had a funny tagline: “Ugly things: all made by hand.” I’m like, hah! That should be the name of my blog.  Recently I’ve been thinking of knitting a dickey, and I realized that I may have totally lost my mind. I wish that I, like Brooklyn Tweed, only knitted beautiful and elegant [...]

    Sunday 24th August 2008 - 10:43:04 PM | Comments (4)

  • Patterns and pricing

    I’m watching the Olympics and knitting, but not joining Ravelrympics. Since knitting is a hobby, I try not to get all deadline-ish about it, because I would probably get stressed out (and not finish anything). I’m also trying to only knit from stash, but not go on an Absolute Stash Diet, because things like that [...]

    Sunday 10th August 2008 - 6:27:12 PM | Comments (2)

  • The knitting goes on vacation

    We went to the Jersey Shore for a week, and I did a little knitting.

    Here is Zoltar, the magical fortune teller who transformed Tom Hanks into Big. Well, or one of the Zoltar’s kind. He is skeptical about the sock. “But how can I grant your wish, sock?!?”

    The sock appreciates the view down to the [...]

    Saturday 2nd August 2008 - 5:23:00 PM | Comments (3)

  • Traveling sock

      
    It’s good I started the sock over again because I realized I had been doing the double decrease wrong. I realize everyone and their mother in blogland has made Jaywalkers, so, this is hardly revelatory information, but when you slip the two stitches knitwise for the double decrease, slip them together, not indiviudally.
    Okay, above is [...]

    Monday 21st July 2008 - 8:36:08 PM | Comments (2)

  • The long tale of the rainbow sock begins

     So the shawl is pretty much done–it just needs to be cast off and blocked out. I had wanted to finish it before the 4th of July, but you know, life gets in the way.
    We headed up to Ithaca for the holiday weekend and I took along a ball of rainbow sock yarn, intending to [...]

    Wednesday 9th July 2008 - 11:03:41 PM | Comments (4)

  • Shawls, so ugly, yet so compelling

      
    Did you know that part of the Berlin Wall (above) is in New York? Who knew? It’s hidden away in Midtown, near the Museum of Modern Art. Anyhow, I have a total dearth of exciting knit-blogging fodder, or exciting life-blogging fodder. (Not that my normal posts are SO exciting, but anyway.)
    I’m knitting another shawl, out of [...]

    Sunday 11th May 2008 - 11:55:17 PM | Comments (6)

  • The Traveling Sock

    I’ve been dragging my sock around town, annoying everyone, but putting in a row here and a row there.
    Here it is visiting the parachute jump at Coney Island. (My knitting has now visited two of the remaining remnants of the 1964 World’s Fair, the other being the awesome Panorama.) By the way, as an occasional reader of weird [...]

    Sunday 20th April 2008 - 8:53:32 PM | Comments (6)

  • Speedy swirl sock

    Sometimes, I hate learning new things. I like doing things the way I always have, and assume, grouchily, that no new way can be better. I am, however, determined to try all of the different ways of how to knit a sock, and this pattern (Swirl Socks by Sulafaye), required learning how to knit toe-up. After some [...]

    Sunday 6th April 2008 - 10:03:27 PM | Comments (7)

  • Supply and demand of nerd gear

    Adam has become obsessed with Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series. So obsessed in fact, that he was champing at the bit for volumes 2 and 3, which no Barnes and Noble had in stock. We had to go to Forbidden Planet to find them, and inside, we saw this Dalek [which due to Adam's other nerd [...]

    Sunday 24th February 2008 - 11:53:01 PM | Comments (5)

  • The traveling sock and emo

    I once had an argument with a friend (this was probably in 2001) about whether the term “emo” was a well-known term. I said that if *I* knew what emo is–and I am someone who owns 5 CDs and no iPod–then it was a well-known term. We then proceeded to poll random strangers at the [...]

    Sunday 28th October 2007 - 10:07:17 PM | Comments (3)

  • New sock and knitting gear

    Adam and I were discussing what constitutes a hobby, with Adam arguing that reading was not a hobby. His argument boiled down to two points: If the activity in question is a commonly listed question on an online dating profile (favorite book / favorite movie / favorite tv show)* and if it doesn’t require gear, it’s not a hobby. Though I agree [...]

    Monday 1st October 2007 - 9:33:56 PM | Comments (4)

  • Sick of the traveling shawl…

    The traveling shawl has got to be the most uninteresting thing to photograph:

    Stay tuned for a new traveling project!

    Sunday 30th September 2007 - 11:15:05 PM | Comment

  • The traveling project strikes again!

    I am lacking in knitting blogging material, and thus I turn to my favorite filler: The Traveling Project!
    (Top left and bottom right) Adam and I were invited to a preview night at a new bowling alley/bar in Williamsburg, The Gutter (well, I think really Adam was, but I tagged along) and the shawl came along [...]

    Sunday 16th September 2007 - 9:45:15 PM | Comment (1)

  • T. Rex and the sock

    Michele from Knitsane tagged me with a meme, but I’m still thinking it over. In the meantime, you get this photo–I think it’s one of the better ones from this traveling project gimmick. 
    The AMNH is kinda racist* but still cool. I love the dinos, the gems, the whale room, and the old-school vitrines.
    * See this photo of a vitrine [...]

    Thursday 31st May 2007 - 10:22:48 PM | Comment (1)

  • Equestrian Blazer Begins…slowly

    Here are six skeins of Rowan Scottish Tweed Aran that I bought at Purl (they were 40% off, and I had a gift certificate from Adam, so it ended up only costing me $24) to make this:

    It’s Kate Gilbert’s Equestrian Blazer in the Winter 2006 Interweave.
    It calls for a 6 needle, but I seem to [...]

    Sunday 27th May 2007 - 5:06:28 PM | Comment

  • The Power Sock

    Many people, including me, have been defeated by Robert A. Caro’s massive biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker. I own the book, and got as far as Chapter 5 in a week, and I’ve been stuck there since November 2006. Anyway, I went to see two of the Robert Moses exhibits currently in New [...]

    Sunday 20th May 2007 - 9:26:52 PM | Comments (2)

  • Flower power

    1. Front of the HPM 2. Trekking sock at the movies 3. Triad Election 4. Back of the HPM
    Hot Pink Mitten is adapted from Folk Mittens. Yarn is Patons wool. More info to come when HPM is actually finished.
    The Flower: This was the weekend for cherry blossom extravaganzas everywhere. My neighborhood actually boasts many cherry [...]

    Sunday 29th April 2007 - 2:35:00 PM | Comments (2)

  • Spring (aka Ugly*) Sock visits the flowers.

    Every spring, I am re-amazed at pink magnolia trees. I wish I knew more about plants, so I could tell you the correct latin name of different magnolias species, but alas, my magnolia knowledge is limited. What I do know is that in San Francisco, where I grew up, we have magnolias, but the [...]

    Tuesday 24th April 2007 - 11:47:35 PM | Comments (4)

  • The rain. It never stops.

    Knitting in front of the Coney Island MTA station sign.
    In an attempt to liven up my blog, I came up with a new and exciting feature. Get ready, You Three Readers! In a totally original concept*, I will bring my current knitting projects around New York City and show it visiting exciting areas!
    *In fact, so [...]

    Sunday 15th April 2007 - 5:26:05 PM | Comments (4)