New York, Yarn Market Newsletter and........

Just back from a quick visit to NYC. A few highlights: laughing, talking, and eating my way through the city with Nora, Eoin and Ainate; eating chocolate at Kee's ---the NY Times called this possibly the best chocolate in the world. Well I might not agree with that statement but they were very fine indeed. I should also mention that the last time I was in NYC I went to Kee's twice no less and each time there was a little handwritten sign saying "Sorry, we are sold out for the day". So you can imagine my delight this time to find out that they were in fact open! And they had chocolates! Eoin brought us to a wonderful little pizza place which he had frequented regularly in his NYU days. He was very taken aback to discover that it is now vegan but in fact our slices were delicious. We tried to go a place called Chikalicious---they serve a 3 course dessert menu. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, the line was very long, the place very small and the patrons in line very unfriendly. We gave the experience a pass but it is there that we saw this cute little chicken. We will definitely make these cuties here next year at knit-one-one for Easter.

We also went to Cheryl Pelavin's gallery in Tribeca to see my friend Catherine's show. It was so much fun seeing her fabulous paintings in NY---Catherine is a neighbor of mine in Emeryville and you have seen a photo of her dog already on this blog---Tinto the whippet.

NYC is terrific dog gazing territory and every few minutes one of us would be yelling "dog alert" and we would all whip around to have a gander. The little dog in the picture with the pink coat had just come from the groomers. I should also say that I am in fact not great about taking pics so you are seeing the sum total of my NY photography work.

The other dog featured in the pic is Gidget. She has recently been adopted from the Oakland SPCA by my swimming friend Molly and her finace Tyson. They are thrilled with her and I think she looks like a total cutie. ( Now I don't want any more of those comments asking me if this is a dog blog or a knitting blog!)

And finally for today I got an e-mail from Leslie at Yarn Market News saying that they were going to mention knit-one-one's Earth Day Celebration in their newsletter> Yeay and thank you Leslie. The celebration is the making of the wonderful Target Tote created by our very own Julie Weisenberger.