10.02.06
Museum, Martha & Mail
This long weekend has been glorious - perfect early fall days in New York City.
Sunday was my museum day - Ectopia at the ICP. My two cents: The work ran the gamut - intelligent, humorous, disturbing, confusing, obvious, mysterious, technical. I feel I have not seen a group show in a long time (granted, I did not make it to the bienniel this year) that was visually stimulating and thought-provoking. I hope this is a good omen for the NYC fall art scene.
Afterwards, I am always hungry after looking at art so I recommend buying a snack in Bryant Park, and sit in a sunny spot so you can knit after eating your grilled chedar cheese, ham, and pear on cranberry bread sandwich. I am thinking Bryant Park would be an ideal place to have an outdoors, knitting get-together. You can bring your own food or buy food, there are enough chair and tables, and the atmosphere is pure Big Apple. Someone else has had the same idea - as I was walking by the Bryant Park Grill I saw a sign: Knit New York has free knitting lessons from 3:00 to 4:30 across from the BP Grill until October 16th.
Monday morning started with me flipping the channels. I lucked out and caught Martha interviewing Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark about their new book. Did anyone else catch it? Sometimes I don’t understand Martha. The interview started a little rocky. Martha would ask Tracey weird questions, like, “Why are there two photos of this skirt pattern in the book?” right out the blue when Tracey was talking about something else. After the commercial, things seemed better. Tracey started doing her accents and funny jokes while Martha complained about knitting on circular needles yet she raved about the knitted tea cozy. Then they had a tea party. While I did learn how to properly prepare a cup of tea (did not know milk goes in first), I would have liked to have seen more about the book and the projects. They only showed four projects! I know, I know, can’t show it all, buy the book, but why didn’t Martha do some knitting tips or some type of fiber topic? A tea party? Martha, will our love / hate relationship ever improve?
No matter, I got over it by having lunch at the South Street Seaport with a friend and then walking over the Brooklyn Bridge. I was pretty tired but I came home to find this in the mail!
I decided to buy the Blue Sky Alpacas Cropped Cardigan pattern from KPixie. And now that it is October, I can use my coupon at The Point to buy the yarn. Whoop!