wooden club chair

this fabric's everywhere

i bought this fabric - to make a pillow - and i'm starting to see it everywhere! and always in the red - saw another blogger made it into an aprin...

walking in the park

my office is the triangle top on the right

there it is again!


rudy by the castle

my new little house

walking in the front door

veiw from my bed


rudy on the balcony


view from one of my windows, looking out back

looking in from my balcony. front door's on the right, kitchen's on the left, bathroom's through the far door...and my vacuume cleaner's leaning against the dining room table.


my blue bathroom


the towels mom gave me

little snoozer

the purl bee

went down to the purl bee last weekend figuring i'd pick out some fabric for pillows. my apartment needs some color, and it'll take too long to knit a pillow cover... they have so many wonderful choices that i had a really hard time actually picking something out. it's the same type of space as the purl, and only two doors down. i made rudy a new dog bed in a gray fabric that has a bright orange california poppy print - speaking with the shop girl as she rang me up i learned that she's from berkley, ca and so is most of the staff. i'm also from the bay area. we both agreed on loving new york.

what we can do today

knitting for charity - if you're interested, click the links below to find ways you can start knitting for the public good

Knitting 4 Charity
Wool Works
Knitting For A Better World

what we did yesterday

looking back at some of the reason's people used to knit...Why We Knit is an intersting take on why we used to knit "During the Civil War needles were picked up to heed the call of soldiers requesting socks. Later, the armies of World War II requested mass amounts of knitted mittens and cap-mufflers to be sent to them from overseas. In the sixties knitted wear was a leading fashion trend (202). And after a large decline in the eighties, knitting slowly popularized and has now, in the new century, become all the rage."