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.

Knitters Take Manhattan

I know I am a reasonably intelligent person, as I can drive a car, get dressed (though I have gotten stuck in dresses at H&M. Damn sizing/zippers), bake excellent cookies, have a college degree, and navigate the New York City subway system ... with knitting in tow.

Yet I managed to get my hand stuck in my dog's cage on Friday night (rolls eye). I decided that it would be easier to stick my hand through the bars of Misty's cage than *opening* the door ... and wound up stuck. My mother had to get me out.

Despite this ... charming habit of mine of getting stuck in dog cage's (and managing to bruise my thigh something terrifically on Tuesday, when I walked right into my open car door), I did have a very eventful week.

Wednesday was the Yarn Harlot at the Borders in Columbus Circle, NYC. I met some wonderful ladies from Ravelry, and I think all the knitters in the room made the Borders staff somewhat nervous. You could see them thinking, "Gah! The publicist was right! There are a lot of them! ...and they have pointy sticks!"













I also got to meet the Yarn Harlot, and hold the traveling sock!