Sheep and the City

Yesterday, in a park in the middle of Manhattan

trees were adorned with felt

roving cascaded from a fountain

and sheep appeared!

Thank you, Prince Charles, for promoting wool which made this event possible!

Such an occasion brings out the fiber folk

and their beautiful handmade sweaters and shawls

Hi, Lisa, and your lovely tunisian crochet shawl! (And don't you love her hat?!)

My favorite yarn store, Knitty City, took over a corner of Bryant Park and Tahki Stacy Charles provided yarn for those making afghan squares.

Hi, Pearl!

What a perfect fibery afternoon!

Finished!

I have so many UFOs, that I was doubting if I was even capable of finishing something anymore. To prove I could, I cast on for a washcloth. 

I worked on it at the laundromat. 

I worked on it in the ER. (I'm fine--it was just a minor nothing.) 

And I finished! 

The yarn is the wonderfully soft Appalachian Baby. (Thank you, Jane, for the turning me onto this yarn. ) The pattern is Chinese Waves knit on the diagonal. That's both the right and wrong sides in the picture. The "wrong" side is the waffle-weave and I find it more attractive than the "right" side. 

Now back to a UFO or two or seven. 

At the Laundromat

Knitting at the steamy laundromat on a hot day The yarn? An organic cotton. The project? A washcloth. A good match of environment, fiber and project




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Something Different

Real, live knitting!



However, the project isn't a new one. It's the Pilates socks I cast on. . . . um. . . 18 months ago. It doesn't seem that long ago!

 Sometime in the past year and a half, I switched from the Blackthorn needles to the Hiya Hiya 9" circular. I do like this needle--the trick to using it is that it has to be held in not-the-usual way.

 The Pilates sock was a good project to work on during knit night on such a hot evening. And once I got into the rhythm of working with such a teeny tiny needle, sped right along.

 This project is going into my purse--I've forgotten how portable a sock can be.

 Happy Summmer, everybody! Any special summer projects?

Doctor's Orders

Is there anything better than one pint of Jeni's ice cream?

Yep! SIX pints of Jeni's ice cream!

For a few weeks, the hubster and I were a bit under the weather. (We're doing fine now.) And my Dr. SIL prescribed the Jeni's for us. Medicine never tasted so good!

Sunday Tale

There once was a knitter who was full of early Spring. The sun was shining, the daffodils were blooming and she thought a new handknit Spring scarf might be just the thing for those days when there's little chill in the air.

She went digging through her stash and found that she already had a Spring scarf on the needles. However, she was puzzled. What was the pattern? It was scribbled on the back of a work memo from last year. No name. No stitch count. No needle size. And why was she using straight needles? The knitter juggled her knitting memories and there were no straight needles there.



Whatever. A scarf had been started. Why not continue? But the knitter quickly realized the reason why the project had been abandoned. Those awkward, heavy, potential eye-poking-out straight needles.

She switched over to circulars. Same size as the straights. However, the cable were ginormous! The scarf was only 20 stitiches but an afghan of 500 stitches could have fit on the needle.

So she went down to a very small cable. And had a go up a needle size because that's all she had.



But the smaller cable was too small and hurt her wrists. Besides, the stitch pattern began to look like macrame. The knitter's days of tie-dye and VW vans were long, long behind her.



So she frogged the whole thing.



The end.

What a Day!

Even though this winter was mild, today was a much-needed not-quite Spring day.

A perfect day to walk around in the Union Square area and take some photos.

Was it warm enough to eat outside in shirtsleeves? Not really. But this guy thought it was.



Look at that blue, blue sky!!! The Empire State Building looks pretty nice, too!



Yeah, it's true. Everything is bigger in NYC--even our rats!



Ghostly Andy Warhol walking towards Union Square. The Andy Monument.



I picked up some mushrooms at the Union Square Greenmarket.



And on the way home, saw daffodils blooming in Central Park.



I hear we're going to have more of the same weather tomorrow. YAY!