Monday, February 9
Knitted fantasies
At the Brooklyn Dry Goods store, where everything was 20% off, I bought magical things:
The green yarn, Jamieson's Jumper Yarn, is a great shade that I don't find around here. Four skeins is 100 gms, 460 yds.
The coral yarn is Lobster Pot Yarns, cashmere -I think I will make the neckwarmer from IW Holiday Knits. I have a brown coat also and while I am not up a creek without a scarf, I think cashmere next to my neck will be just the thing.
I have seen Jan Messent's Knitted Gardens in catalogues for a long time and have wanted that book. A knitted world of flowers and cottages. BDG had a great variety of books that I haven't seen at local yarn stores (Loopy and Nana's), including Knitted Gardens. What I never saw in a catalogue are hedgehogs, squirrels, and doves:
I love this book as much as I thought. My first project will be a pond. I need to find instructions on how to knit a duck and a frog. Surround the pond by a garden of long grass then work into a cottage garden -
The University of Chicago laid off approx 450 people today so besides thinking about knitted gardens, I drank some wine, called April, and took a picture of a cat:
Next step is to have coffee with Julie.
The green yarn, Jamieson's Jumper Yarn, is a great shade that I don't find around here. Four skeins is 100 gms, 460 yds.
The coral yarn is Lobster Pot Yarns, cashmere -I think I will make the neckwarmer from IW Holiday Knits. I have a brown coat also and while I am not up a creek without a scarf, I think cashmere next to my neck will be just the thing.
I have seen Jan Messent's Knitted Gardens in catalogues for a long time and have wanted that book. A knitted world of flowers and cottages. BDG had a great variety of books that I haven't seen at local yarn stores (Loopy and Nana's), including Knitted Gardens. What I never saw in a catalogue are hedgehogs, squirrels, and doves:
I love this book as much as I thought. My first project will be a pond. I need to find instructions on how to knit a duck and a frog. Surround the pond by a garden of long grass then work into a cottage garden -
The University of Chicago laid off approx 450 people today so besides thinking about knitted gardens, I drank some wine, called April, and took a picture of a cat:
Next step is to have coffee with Julie.
Friday, February 6
It's not me, it's them
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Thursday, February 5
Wandering but not lost
Lost is when you don't know how to get home. Or in the case of a trip out of town, how to get back to the hotel.
Instead of Brooklyn Dry Goods, DD#3 and I found this -
We thought the store was in the shadow of the bridge. Turns out the store is a mile in the opposite direction. I found it and my reward was 20% off everything I wanted.
The purpose of our trip to Brooklyn was
To get there, we used
After the day was over, I looked out the hotel window to see
Instead of Brooklyn Dry Goods, DD#3 and I found this -
We thought the store was in the shadow of the bridge. Turns out the store is a mile in the opposite direction. I found it and my reward was 20% off everything I wanted.
The purpose of our trip to Brooklyn was
To get there, we used
After the day was over, I looked out the hotel window to see
