Showing posts with label nyc yarn crawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nyc yarn crawl. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2026

another day with a long walk

 
do you see the moon shining in the blue sky above the building? (looking west.)

greg and i walked downtown for breakfast at square diner . . 



but we ended up having tacos instead!

today i visited brooklyn craft's manhattan pop up store for the yarn crawl.

their little bat is a honduran white bat and they were able to find the pattern for me (seen here on ravelry),

korrina has visited their store in greenpoint . . they had a free craft happening today . . 

and so i made a button. greg said he thought it was very cute.

walking home past the new amsterdam branch of the library . . 



for dinner i made a marinara sauce with conchiglie and farfalle pasta (seashells and butterflies), and zucchini sautèed with garlic and olive oil. 

morgana has been sick also, and sent a photo of her chicken bone broth with pastina dinner  (with parmesan cheese) (something my sicilian grandma would make for me when we visited her).

Thursday, October 1, 2026

a day with a long walk

 
it was such a nice day that i ended up putting in a load of laundry and then going for a walk (and talking to my sister on the phone).


i walked to abraço in the east village and had their delicious kaffe mit schlag, a mandarin orange and olive oil cake . .  

and began to re-read the first book of the vanderbeekers (since i just finished book seven and wanted to start over).

i also checked to see if east village organic had chestnut honey yet (no) . .



and since it's the new york city yarn crawl weekend coming up . . i stopped at downtown yarns. the theme is "bats" this year, which is also one of the reasons why i wanted to visit. each yarn shop has a bat with special theme words. if you visit all thirteen participating shops (!we keep growing with our fiber shops!) and you submit the photo and special words, you are entered to win a big grand prize! (this is not happening in my little world).

i did purchase a bag for myself, however! (oh, and a few skeins of yarn for christmas gifts - i intend to knit a few scarves for gifts . . hmmm . . i hope i do so.)

ciao, downtown yarns . . a presto. see you next time.

passing a sweet buzzing bumblebee . . 


i had to pass some time while leti at downtown yarns wound my yarn for me, so i decided to visit thompkins square library . . 

where i checked out the movies "l'albero degli zoccoli" and "mia madre." i've seen the first one in the theatre years ago, but i've never seen the second.


another bumblebee . .



my walk home took me past many halloween decorations . . 'tis the season, i suppose.

i was also exhausted, too exhausted to write this post the day of, and so am writing saturday evening, october 4th. and i can't remember what we had for dinner. maybe leftover minestrone soup?

the weather has been so up and down. one day it's chilly, grey and cool, the next warm, sunny and humid. i think i've had trouble adjusting.