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."

knit events in new york

these all take place at New York's Museum of Art & Design
40 west 53rd street

Air is fulid
4/19: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Janet Echelman, exhibiting artist at radical lace & subversive knitting, will discuss her transformation from a painter to a sculptor who makes the choreography of wind visible to the human eye, in works such as 'she changes', a 500-foot diameter, 150-foot tall knotted lace sculpture in Portugal. she'll show her newest works, including a 400-foot-long shadow drawing commission in Florida, and her winning design for the Hoboken 9-11 Memorial competition, a new free-standing island in the Hudson River. reception following.

Knit Night
5/17: 6:00 - 10:00 pm
In an event of knitting and crocheting projects for all levels of skill, the activities will include the Unraveling Gathering (old sweaters become new yarn), a Knitting Circle and personal projects. During the event, the museum will also be an official site for speed trials for The World's Fastest Knitter, and international competition sponsored by the Craft Yarn Council of America.

Performance by KNITTING NATION, Phase 4: "Pride"
6/16: 12:00 - 5:00 pm
KNITTING NATION, exhibition artist Liz Collins' ongoing and collaborative performance and site-specific installation, consisting of an army of uniformed machine knitters, stitchers, and manually operated knitting machines, will set up at MAD for an afternoon during which they will create a giant banner. KNITTING NATION explores aspects of textile and apparel manufacturing, laying bare the process of making knitted fabric and offering commentary on how humans interact with machines, global trade, fashion, and iconography. this phase of the project will examine the rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride.

staying cool & keeping warm

these are rad: skull & cross-bone wrist warmers. i joined a knitting group ('snb-nyc', found via the link in my posting 'stitch-n-bitchers unite') & have been getting emails from the group - it's great fun. anyway, this just came through this morning from a member - she's donating all of the proceeds from the sale of this pattern to KittyKind