Knitter Takes Manhattan, Part 2

I was also in the city again on Friday, for two events. The New York Antiquarian Book Fair was this weekend, and I was volunteering at the Grolier Club table.

I sadly did not take any photos, but the books and leaves and manuscripts and incunabla on display were gorgeous and breathtaking.

After that, I decided it was a good idea to walk up from 67th to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (around 81st street). I *finally* saw the blog.mode exhibit.

After the Museum, I sat on the steps, and worked on my other new knitting project, the Monkey socks. In a fit of brilliance and hubris, I decided that morning that I would knit these socks using the Magic Loop method. Needless to say, by the time I was outside the Met, I realized that I am not ready for the great Magic Loop.
The evening was spent at NYU, for the graduate student symposium in Costume Studies, where I saw an old friend for the first time and years, and heard her present her thesis on home-made, tailor-made, and ready-made clothes in the early 19th century.