You’ve got a chance to win a 3 day Marketplace Pass for Vogue Knitting Live NYC. Just leave a comment below, telling us your favorite New York moment! You’ve got until 10am Eastern Time, on Monday morning January 11. I’ll randomly pick a winner. You’ll then send me your email and I’ll send the pass and the details. The lucky winner is responsible for getting themselves to the event.
VKLive really know how to put on a great show. The lobby is full of knitted art and the Marketplace itself is a wonder, full of amazing vendors. You won’t want to miss it if you happen to be in town. Check out the information here.
Although many of my classes are sold out, there are still some spots open in
Making it Up: Designing Fair Isle Hats – Friday the 15th from 9-12
This is a design class, for folks with some experience with fair isle knitting. Hats are a great way to begin designing with Fair Isle Motifs. I’ll provide a basic hat pattern which you can customize in endless ways. You might sketch some ideas that you have and I’ll help you figure out how to make them work. But don’t be afraid to come in with no idea at all. We’ll work fast and furiously and although you won’t finish a hat, you’ll leave with the skills to finish your very own fair isle design.
3 Essential Methods for Shaping in Fair Isle – Sunday the 17th from 9-12
Hmmm…today that title seems like what we have to do when on the island of Fair Isle…but we’ll be in NYC learning some tried and true ways to shape our stranded colorwork garments.
We’re going to work on a swatch to experiment with three main ways and discuss other ideas and options. Again, we’ll be knitting a lot…which is the fun of it all right?
Fair Isle Socks – Sunday the 17th 2-5
Ok, I’m partial to Fair Isle socks, and I’ve got a clever way to make knitting them easy. We’re going to make some darling wee socks to test out the system, and you’ll leave with the skills to make your own adult pair. I love this class. Well I guess I just love handknit socks!
Read more about my classes and all the others offered here.
Now….share with us your favorite New York Moment.
I love your fairisle knitting! If I win, I’ll come!
Happy knitty New year! Mimiri
Looking forward to your design challenge class on Friday 1/15. Would love to add some market place time to go with it!
Oh it is going to be great! Get ready to flex those fingers and brain cells! Ready… Steady… Go!
Oh come come come to the US!!!! Come to Maine! I might be in Germany next summer…plans are hatching!
All the hustle and bustle to move around. No one person does it the same way. Of course eating a pretzel with mustard.
MMMMMmmmm….people and pretzels with mustard…the best!
Last year was my first year, I went with my mom who is more a seamstress than knitter and it was her first big yarn event. She bought more yarn than I did! It was a blast.
So nice to share such a fun trip with your mom! Wonderful!
So many NY moments over many years! Some heartwarming, some awful, some hilarious. This one is hilarious but also awful: I was on the subway platform and guy#1 walks over to guy#2 and says” hey do you know what time it is?” Guy#2 doesn’t even look at guy#1. He just says “FUCK OFF!”
Hand’s down my favorite. Gotta love it!
The look on my mom’s face when we took her to Tavern on the Green for her 80th birthday!
Oh what a treat! Tavern on the Green is such a magical place!
I love New York and it’s always so much fun to visit it, but my favorite NY moment is coming soon (hopefully very soon :)) when we move from Hong Kong back to the States and I reunite with my son who is living in NYC now. I haven’t seen him since last May and miss him terribly!
Oh yay!!!! You will have a glorious time! And maybe we get to meet this time you’re back….wishing….hoping!
Favorite NY moment? That’s a tough one. Probably has to do with going to Google headquarters in NYC for the first time (DH works there now). We’ve fallen in love with the city and that will never stop.
OOOOOoooh! I got to go to a party on the roof there once…Amazeballs…and met Craig of Craigslist…when he thanked Daniel Ellsberg for saving his life. He said he’d have been drafted into the Vietnam war if not for the release of the Pentagon Papers…wow…I almost forgot that NY moment.
As a 16 year old English exchange student I fell in love for the first time in Greenwich Village!
Oh how perfectly grand!
When I went to NYC with my daughter!
Mom and daughter duos are the absolute best, what better place to run around than NYC?
My favorite NY moment – street fairs when roads are closed to vehicular traffic.
I know, it is so…weird and otherworldly in a way…quiet, just people and plants and things!
I have never had the opportunity to visit NYC. Everything would be so thrilling to see and do especially when it involves yarn and knitting!
Oh yes, you must visit sometime!
We arrived in NYC via our SV Oneday. We had sailed all the way from Lake Huron. We tethered our boat to a mooring ball in the Harbour. The next days we explored the city by foot. Central Park, Times Square, Trump Tower and the list goes on and on. Happy memories from 2008.
This is one of the most fantastic, arriving by sea on your own boat! Wow, through the Great Lakes, Erie Canal and down the Hudson? Fantastic!
I lived in Manhattan when I was a child for 4 years. So many memories, but Saturday trips to the museum of Natural History and eating roasted chestnuts is on the top of the list.
I can smell the chestnuts!
Visiting tha American Girl Doll store with my daughters when the were little…
Oh – wonderful – it must have been magical!
Once I went with my parents to the Plaza Hotel for tea. We had tea and a few sandwiches and the bill was over a hundred dollars! My dad said, “We’re never coming back to the Palm Court!”
I had to laugh, even going as a young adult my friends and I were shocked…I mean we knew…but holy cow…almost died!
I would love to win! VKL is during my birthday weekend! I would also love to take your fair isle course!
Favorite NYC moment is spending the afternoon at Rockefeller people watching during this holiday!!!
Thanks again for the chance to win!
Oh happy happy Birthday!!!! Rockefeller plaza is so great, and there will be skating for your birthday!
I lived in NYC in the scary early ’80s. Loved wandering the aisles of the Strand Bookstore. Would love to win and live my NY dream again! Sheila
Hey, we were there the same time! I love the Strand, especially then, free admittance for hours of enjoyment! 18 miles of books!
NYC means fiber to me. I have a best friend in Queens whose daughter is a budding fiber enthusiast (she’s only 15 yrs.) so some of my favorite memories of the City are sitting in their 1-bedroom apartment, casting on a cowl, fingerless mitts, or this year, making needle felted gnomes with her. Can anything compare with the delight a beginner feels when starting out on a new creative adventure? I hope I win because it will give me an excuse for another cross-country visit with them!
the joy of sharing knitting with a new one just hooked! priceless.
It has to be when we took the kids to the American Museum of Natural History and my then-four year old son took off running and yelling “Dum-Dum, Dum-Dum!” as soon as he spotted the Easter Island head replica. He was a little thing, running from one end of the gallery to the other with unbridled excitement at seeing something he recognized from Night at the Museum. Even the museum docent smiled and laughed.
I can just see the glee! beautiful! And Susan…YOU WON!!!!
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Visiting NYC at the end of the 80s as a young university student … staying with a friend in HIS friend’s drafty, under-construction apartment up by Columbia. It had holes in the bathroom walls, a mattress on the floor, and a boombox with only one tape: Bob Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home. I ate more $1 slices of pizza than I thought possible and gave away every last bit of change to the folks who walked between the cars of the subway begging for it. We skated in Central Park and walked up and down Broadway, for miles, fueled by pizza and youth. It was magical.
Those were the days, my brother lived up there then. I was in Fort Green in Brooklyn. Great times!
Sadly, I’ve never been to NYC but would love to go. My mother is from upstate NY and my parents went to Cornell. Let this post represent a wish to finally get a chance to go to NYC 🙂
Oh you’ll get there and it will be a BLAST!!!
My fondest wish of NYC is being in the delivery room when my grandson was born. That was 13 years ago and I was visiting to help get things ready for him. He arrived 2 months early so I got a wonderful present!!
I’ve been to NY many times and love the City. The children are on the Left Coast now and I have no reason to go back.
I don’t want to win the tickets but just wanted to chime in on my Best Moment In NYC.
What a beautiful moment. Thank you for sharing Elaine. <3