Whew! I’ve been traveling. When I heard the weather would be bad leaving Pawtucket, I decided to spend the rainy day in NYC instead of driving all the way to DC. I stayed with a dear, dear friend, so every moment was an infusion of energy and history – an invigorating tonic. While she was at work, I visited Tim Burton at Moma…he was crowded….but a good jolt of the interesting mind… made me start craving black and white, and I say I only use darkest brown and natural…we’ll just see about that, missy… swirl it with turquoise and red…and acid yellow. Yes indeed. Maybe a few gloomy cobwebs, or not.
Ok. Then I visited my elderly cousin, who is 96, and has the most wonderful apartment in the world. The apartment of 46 geraniums. And he is the most wonderful fellow…A Gracious Host… we had cookies and tea. Perfect considering the weather.
Next–I met amazing talent: Connie Chang Chinchio! At long last, we’d planned a rendezvous a few times, but my intended city trips always fell through. We met in the Land of Danger: School Products….yarn shop from my ancient NYC history…still the same…still so very tempting. I do not need any more yarn. EVER. Look at Connie up there, see her fists full of yarn, that giddy grin? Uh huh, two knitting designers in a yarny stupor…and I got a book too. Andean Weaving, why stop with knitting?
What can I say, it was like I’d always known Connie. We’re both west-coasters on the east coast, so I suppose we have that in common, but it was more than that. It was just so comfortable to sit and knit and talk with her, we went downtown for tea, at a great bookshop in Soho. It is nice to have someone who speaks the same language of knitting too, you know what I mean, when out in the “real world” somehow the threads of our conversations get tangled and never understood? Only a knitter knows.
The tapestry….lead in to the next day…Painters translate their art to tapestry in the Demons, Yarns & Tales show the John Cohan Gallery. The Alphabet is by Peter Blake, who did the Beatles Sgt. Peppers album cover, among other things.
so much fun:)