Long overdue news

Finally I have found a little bit of time to update this - apologies to you all - and especially to my father who I know checks this regularly and reminds me that it has been a while since I last posted.

I have been having so much fun with Kristine that I hardly know where to start. So in no particular order, here we go.

First of all I got to extend my birthday a little more, something that I am really in favour of. I got to Kristine's house and found a beautiful wooden swift waiting for me as a belated birthday present. It is lovely. I haven't told the husband about it yet as the size of it might be an issue - my knitting already takes up a little too much space in his opinion.

Then we went up to New York for a couple of days - Jacinta and her husband were there as was Debbie Bliss so we all hung out and had a merry time. Here's a picture of Jacinta, Kristine and me out to dinner one eveing.

We visited a few of the NY yarn stores - here's Debbie at Downtown Yarns.

We also got to go to Habu which was a lot of fun. They had all kinds of yarns in interesting mixtures, some of the softest that I have ever felt. And a lot of them were in whites, beiges and browns. A store after my own heart.

And we went to Flushing Meadows to watch the US Open one evening. I have to say that was one of my highlights of the stay. I have been trying to get tickets for Wimbledon for years now (you put your name into a draw for tickets and get them if you are lucky) and have so far failed so when Kristine told me we were going to the US Open I was soooo excited. Here's the main stadium where we had our seats.

We were really lucky as we got to see two evening games, one was Serena Williams v. Tatiana Golovin and the other was Andy Roddick v. Rafael Nadal. And let me tell you, the tennis was great.

Another great bit of my stay is that I got to go to Wendy's house and have dinner with Wendy and Kristine. I can now say that I have seen the stash room and I shall say no more. But she does have some lovely yarn. There was a LOT of oohhhing and aaaahhhing on my behalf. Better than the yarn (did I just say that?) was Lucy. I grew up with cats but don't have one now (it would be unfair with all the to-ing and fro-ing to the US) so instead I adopted Lucy for an evening. She is very cool.

Can I just mention here that Wendy makes fantastic brownies.

But has she actually done any knitting I hear you ask. Well yes, I have. I have finished the front of Flighty:

I also finished a raglan cardigan from Debbie Bliss's Baby knits book as well as the Debbie Bliss boat neck sweater for my friend Jane's baby - both in Cashmerino aran, obviously :). Here's the one for Jane's baby.

And then I making good progress on Ice in Rowan's ASC and have cast on for the Blue Sky Alpaca Retro Poncho. Which is lovely but stalling as my Addis are not quite long enough. I will have to get some more tomorrow. The pattern is really simple, just slipped stitches and yarn overs mostly but it looks divine. I am using yarns from 2 dyelots for reasons that I will not go into and one lot is slightly pinky, the other slightly yellow. At first I was not too happy but I have decided that I like the slightly stipy effect (you have to look real close to see it). Pictures to follow once I find the battery charger for my camera which I fear I have left in NY.

Finally, here is a shot of the steam coming out of the street on First Ave and 52nd Street where there was some underground work going on the other night. I just love this picture.

Posted by Amelia at September 10, 2004 09:56 PM | TrackBack