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Goals, and stuff
It’s always at this point in the summer when I start thinking about needing to be made warm again, instead of paying attention to all the sweating and wishing I had a suitable device to keep me permanently cool. (And the inventor of modern air conditioning rolls in his grave.)
So I’m fantasizing about what I’m going to knit to wear on a much breezier day, hopefully one during which leaves fall from trees.
But every time I knit something, I go chunky. Because I’m lazy. And because the yarn is so soft! And because I’m lazy. (I love the quick knits.)
But this is what happened the last time I chose “super chunky”.
I became chunky along with the sweater, and no, I’m not going to include that photo. I frogged this thing for a couple of hats about five minutes after it came off the needles.
Anyway, I feel like knitting this:
But it’s going to take a lot of this:
Not a bunch of men changing giant clocks. It’s going to take a lot of time. Maybe I’ll start tomorrow… right after I clean out that closet.
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Handmade at the Library
One summer afternoon when I was a kid, my mom took me to the New Dorp branch of the NYPL, where an expert in origami was giving a workshop, and there, I inelegantly mastered the swan, a simple star, a boat, and a crane. After that, I didn’t give another thought to the library’s expertise in handmade crafts… until today.
Jessica Pigza is a crafty librarian for the NYPL, who regularly gives seminars about the resources the library offers crafters and artists, and on Saturday, June 21 at 1:00, she’s going to show you how to use the library for handmade help at Knitty City.
If you’re not a knitter, know that she’s got tons of information about a wide range of handmade art at her NYPL blog, and at Handmade Librarian, from soap making to craft culture, sewing, and letterpress.
