March 28, 2004
New York knitting
We had a wonderful time in NYC, and I had a great knitting experience. There is lots of knitting in New York, and I ran into knitters everywhere. I went through every airport security check without a hitch, but I must report that knitting needles are not allowed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art! They seem to be welcome everywhere else, though. I knit the Autumn Tam on the plane, and it wasn't a great experience. I ran out of a few colors, which I ended up substituting with Rowan 4-ply leftovers I had with me, fortunately. I also thought the decreases happened too fast, and will use a different pattern for my next tam. However, it is done, and certainly wearable.
For walking around, I knit on the Lavold sweater. I have a picture of me, wearing the A-line aran, in the Natural history museum, which is knitter-friendly. I am next to the model of the moon, holding the knitting. It doesn't want to seem to want to upload now, so I will do that later. For theater knitting, I knit on a sock out of Sock It to Me Harlequin yarn. It went really quickly, and I finished it during "Gypsy" and "Wicked", so when we went to "Rent" I knit on the Dacapo. It is boring, so I won't show that, but here is the sock and the Lavold back as far as it got.
We walked several miles each day, I swear, and we saw lots of interesting things. The highlight, however, was the musical "Wicked", which just opened in October of 2003, and is an absolutely wonderful experience. My whole family was simply enthralled from beginning to end. We all wanted to skip everything else the entire trip and just see it again, but tickets are not easy to come by. It is worth going to New York to see this show before the stars, Kristin Chenowith and Idina Menzel, leave. They are phenomenal talents. See www.wickedthemusical.com for more details and some music clips.
Anne
Posted by at March 28, 2004 10:38 AMOooh, I am so envious of your Broadway adventures! And getting in all of that knitting time, too. I am totally surprised you ran out of colors for the Autumn Tam, as I know the person [not to name any names] is very careful when putting the kits together. I admire that you carried on, though, making do.
Posted by: KarenC on March 28, 2004 01:04 PMThe tam is beautiful, what did you substitute for 'Autumn'?
Posted by: CarolineF on March 28, 2004 06:37 PMI used Rowan 4-ply, which is almost the same weight as Spindrift, and the brighter green in the middle is the substitute. For other color substitutions, I still used what spindrift I had, but I didn't use the "proper" colors, just went with what I had using "light" and "dark" hues. Because all of the colorway was appropriate, it ended up OK.
Posted by: Anne on March 29, 2004 08:44 AMWelcome back, Anne! The Lavold is beautiful, and it sound like you had lots of fun. Wish I had known you needed more bits of yarn, I could dig some up!
Posted by: Sheila on March 29, 2004 10:48 AMAnne- as designer of the Autumn tam I would love to discuss this with you. I am concerned that you ran out of yarn and also the wheel chart was not clear to you as I see the patterning was lost at the top. (See the Two Swans site for top view of the tam.) I will be happy to provide you with more yarn to finish it properly and I am so sorry you had trouble with the kit. Please write to me!
Sandy
Well, Sandy, between the two of us we designed a whole new tam! I think that I will have to knit a new one, properly, so will take your advice on how to do the decreases, but I am happy with my little hat and it is a great reminder of my trip. Don't feel bad about the kit being short of yarn. That must be very hard to forsee.
Posted by: Anne on March 31, 2004 08:12 AM