I’m never quite sure how interested my readers are in vacation photos. I always think I’m going to think other people’s vacation photos are boring, but actually, I find them fairly interesting. For example, I want to go everywhere Fig and Plum goes. So, in the spirit of conducting a little service journalism, here are […]

(taken in the window of Purl)
Happy holidays!

Lekkercraft tagged me with the random things meme. I actually did a version of this earlier, but I interpreted that one as 8 hobbies I could have had. So, since we could all use more random things about me…here we go:
(1.) I love liver, liver products, preserved meats, and potted meats, including, but not limited […]

Here’s an update on old finished objects, now that it’s finally cold. The Ugly Socks, shown here in my dirty clown shoes (it was raining, which is why my shoes are wet), need some extra darning on the heel. I knit the short row shaping loosely, and once the socks are on my feet, the […]

It all began a couple months ago, when Adam asked me if I had heard of some sort of yarn festival upstate. One of his friends had gone a few years ago, and he thought I might be interested. I was like, “Yeah, I think it’s in Rhinebeck. I think it’s popular.” As of yesterday, I […]

Here are some traveling project shots in the new Greek and Roman Galleries. I was predisposed to dislike these galleries because they replaced the old cafeteria, which was beautiful and a nice spot for homework reading in college. The new cafeteria is depressing and underground, and has none of the glamour of the old cafeteria. […]

It is time to discuss subway knitting. My main activities on the subway are sleeping and reading the newspaper–though I have never mastered the newspaper fold necessary to read the Times without stabbing everyone in the face–but I do sometimes knit on the subway. Considering the five worst subway stories I have ever heard*, I […]

My shawl is looking like a group of moldy lit*le alien bu*ts.
This is my first lace project and it’s pretty interesting. I like the Addi Lace, but I haven’t used the Knitpicks, so I can’t compare. I wanted to knit on vacation, so I didn’t wait to order the Knitpicks version. The Addi Lace needles […]

From left to right: Addi Turbo, Addi Lace, Addi Natura, Clover Bamboo
Addis are too expensive. Anyway, here’s a photo for a comparison of their tips.
Not much knitting info here, but here are some great free patterns I’ve discovered on Ravelry:
Slightly More than Scarf , from Living in Stitches
Spring Cable Socks, from SpaceKnitty
Ribbed Lace Bolero, from […]

Adam and I came back from a week at the Jersey Shore. Only a little knitting on the bus, ’cause my arm has been feeling ache-y.
 
The shawl on the bus ride down.
I read two books (The Patron Saint of Liars and The Magician and the Cardsharp) and Adam embraced his inner nerd by reading a […]

I kind of felt bad saying this show sucked, but it did. First, three digressions.
1. At first, I was going to apologize for writing digression no. 2 (below), because I was thinking it sounded kind of pretensious and obnoxiously-pinkies-out-ish. But then I realized that I don’t think it is pretensious to care about art and […]

I have not been knitting very much at all, but I did see a bunch of knitting related stuff last weekend, so here is a post for you.
From left to right, top to bottom:
1. I go to Knit Away in Brooklyn to try and track down some Addi Lace needles. Success!
2. I attend the […]

What might this yarn become? Ponder, my pretties, ponder…
Michele from Knitsane tagged me for the seven things about me meme. In the spirit of the Freakonomics column, I am going to list seven other possible hobbies I have contemplated adding to my life, besides knitting.
1. Violin playing I played the violin for a long time, […]

Adam and I randomly went to the American Museum of Natural History twice–once last week and once this week. I like the older displays more than the newer flashy stuff. There really is a lot of fascinating stuff in there. Here’s some fiber-related stuff:

I do not feel the call of spinning, but if you do, […]

 
 Does it count as a leisure activity if you do it at a bar?
I don’t know how I missed this, but there was a Freakonomics column a few weeks ago in the NY Times Mag about knitting and whether it counted as a leisure or work activity. It’s not particularly groundbreaking* and in fact, I […]

I was going to try and improve on People magazine’s punning title for this post, but the original editor did a pretty good job. I was sitting in a doctor’s office a couple of months ago and found this article, which I ripped out for the blog. It’s an article about Karen Allen, who played […]

I was slothing a bit this weekend and surfing the Internet, looking at random knitting organizational stuff* and I went on Lexie Barnes’s website and I found this post, with a still from Desperate Housewives with my bag! Adam gave it to me for Christmas a couple of years ago and I use it all […]

My grandparents in the early 1970s, in front of their house.
A few months ago, when my grandmother and I were celebrating our birthdays together–we share both the same zodiac sign in both the Western and Eastern astrology lore (thus leading to distrubingly similar personalities, known to our loved ones as a special ability to complain […]

Look! Adam gave me an unexpected gift this week:
 
They’re from www.namemaker.com. I love the colors he picked, the brown on blue.
(It was drizzling when we took the photo, hence the splotches of rain.)
Also, Adam, who was referred to by his friend as “a Scientologist with Flickr,” has finally convinced me about the wonders of Flickr. […]

Adam gave me a gift certificate for a sewing class that I will be taking in a couple of months. The class, which takes place over several weeks, will teach me how to make a zippered bag, which is very exciting, since I have not machine-sewn since the eighth grade. My primary school had (and […]

Jenny’s comment on my last post and a recent post of Knit and Tonic bring the discussion to a sad sad fact. Somehow, learning to love knitting means losing any and all fashion sense. I want to be chic and cool, but I want to knit frumpy frumpy things. Like shawls. And self-patterning yarns.
My name […]

I always wanted to be someone who had an “inspriation” wall. No, not of quotes. Depending on my mood, I either find sappy quotes super-stupid or incredibly moving. I think I have bi-polar sappy card syndrome. There was one summer where my friend and I would send each other horrid cards (the ones that are […]

I just received a comment from Steven Lee, who owns Knitting Etc. in Ithaca, NY, which I reviewed below, and I just wanted to make some comments about yarn store reviewing.
In my day job, I work in journalism, and I don’t consider my knitting blog to be journalism at all, but instead, a place to […]

Really, this is never going to be a blog. Instead, I’m just hoping to use it as an online resource to keep track of my projects.

KNITTY CITY
208 West 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
www.knittycity.com
I’m kind of surprised New York manages to support so many yarn stores. I mean, really, how many knitters can there […]

So this was supposed to be a summer project, but since I’ve become so busy at work and also gimp-arm’d, it is probably going to take a while (especially since my wrists still hurt. Improved, but achy.)
Here’s a sketch of what it looks like. (If I were on Project Runway, Tim Gunn would make a horrible […]

I’ve mastered multi-tasking. Here I am reading and knitting today. I finished my book, Crossworld. It was okay. It wasn’t as good as I hoped it would be. It was no Wordfreak.

I knit in lots of places. The sock you see in the first picture is shown in the second photo in an earlier […]

Here’s the sock so far. Posting will probably be limited this week until I can figure out what’s messing up my Internet! 

I’m watching SNL, and Tina Fey just did an item on the knitta crew and she said something like “And then they were beaten up by Los Crochetos Lobos.” Adam and I laughed and he said “If I hadn’t read that article, I would have no idea what they were talking about.”

KNITTA PLEASEOriginally uploaded by garbnzgh.

I was reading Gothamist today, and I noticed they did a funny little item about people who “tag” with knitting, instead of graffiti. (see photo above.) And I thought it was cute, and then they were talking a little bit about knitting blogs, and then…they mentioned ‘ol New York Minknit!
Well, I’m pretty […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]