everything is blooming

 

 

a stop at strand books . . 

more ramen

a new ramen shop!

dinner out on a pretty night

greg and i chose a ramen noodle place on sixth avenue to have dinner at this evening. chanda texted me after we had sat down and since she was at school and only a block away, came by to join us.

yarn crawl purchases

my yarn crawl purchases . . 

argyle's luminous beachcomber colorway . . it's so pretty!

pluto . . having fun with my newly wound beachcomber ball . .

and lying on my knit collage project which i'm finally blocking . .

brooklyn yarn crawl

 

 i rode citibike to warren street and walked to and over the bridge to meet korrina at the ferry landing at brookyn bridge park to attend the brooklyn yarn crawl event - visiting all four brookyn fiber stores.

 

at our first stop, woolyn yarn store on atlantic avenue.

there were four stores involved and if you found the crocheted/knitted flowers with their secret word and emailed all four words to the official yarn crawl website, you could win a special basket of yarn or a gift certificate. we found the flowers in the three stores we visited, but the day grew too late to visit the final one. it was still fun discovering all the flowers, however (woolyn's was the most difficult . . it's actually not easy to find amidst all the balls/skeins of yarn and other myriad of items).

 

walking to the next store . . 

wild plastic animals for sale on someone's stoop . .

 

at brooklyn general . . 

 

"lupine"

walking to our next stop . .
 

i always find it fascinating walking across the brooklyn queens expressway.

 

our next stop: delicious canolis and cappuccino at mazzola bakery!

 

our favorite canoli in all of nyc . .

 

walking through brooklyn to the bus stop which got confusing with the one way streets (we needed to take it east and had trouble finding where it turned around at the end of the line . . we ended up hopping in an uber).

 

here we are in windsor terrace at argyle, korrina's favorite shop.

 

"lagoon!"

i was excited to purchase a skein of esther's own hand-dyed luminous solar sock yarn in the beachcomber colorway.
 

walking to the bus for downtown brooklyn in our old neighborhood of park slope to return to the bridge and ferry landing.

 

cherry blossoms . .

admiring the redbud trees . .
 

 

korrina hopped on the ferry and i headed home along the bridge where everyone was having fun taking selfies . .

 

 

korrina's view at her ferry landing . .

taking a pic of her purchases in the sunset light . .
 

i decided to walk through soho rather than riding the bike home. here i'm passing burdick chocolate shop . . 

to meet chanda and greg for dinner at moustache . .

 

 

at home with another canoli for dessert.