First things first- guess what I found yesterday?
Unsweetened ICED TEA at the Wendy's by my office. This is a HUGE deal! The entire time that I've worked here (which has been 369 days), the Wendy's next door has not served iced tea. In what I've noticed to be a STARTLING trend, most fast-food stores in NYC don't serve iced tea, and those that do only serve the "sweet-tea" version (gag me). I had to
re-up yesterday during my lunch hour, so I was running short on time when it came to getting food. I can't tell you how EXCITED I was to see that giant, silver tea dispenser, glittering behind the counter next to the french fry station. Maybe I'll have to go over there and get one today... JUST to make sure it's still there! ;)
In other news, I took a crochet class last night. For real. As you've already seen, I can do a basic stitch, but since I can't read a pattern, I've been pretty limited to what I can make. I was doing a little Internet research and found out that Lion Brand Yarn has a studio at Union Square- perfect!
So last night, I took "Crochet II"- and boy did I learn a lot! First of all, our teacher was the coolest; not only did she have a degree in knitting/crochet design from FIT, but she was an Alvin Ailey Company dancer for over 20 years... how awesome is that? My fellow classmates were on the weirder side: one kept forgetting how to do things and told us it was because she "took her medicine" and it made her forget, while another one kept looking at my sample and telling me what I did wrong only to have the teacher tell her that mine was correct and HERS was wrong. There were only 5 students, so I felt that I got a lot of attention/help from the teacher. Here are some pics of what I worked on in class (don't worry- that piece on the left is SUPPOSED to look that way- we were working on decreasing and increasing)... :)
When you take a class, you also get 10% off anything you purchase that day... so I bought a new kind of yarn. I was always a fan of a bulkier yarn (which helped to cover my imperfections), but last night I went out on a limb and purchased a finer gauge, WOOL yarn. Instead of cleaning my apartment when I got home (like a responsible adult), I started a new scarf (you can tell my the color scheme that it'll be a Knit Your Bit contribution).
As far as today goes, it's pretty much perfect. If reading
Pioneer Woman wasn't fun enough, look what I got in the mail today:
After
Bakerella's glowing recommendation of
Confectionery House, I can't wait to try these- thanks for the GREAT SURPRISE Mom!
Happy Tuesday!
So I decided that today I'm going to package them up, and send them on their way. But I wanted to take pictures of a few of my favorites...
I also wanted to make special tags for the Knit Your Bit donations (they'll be given to WWII veterans). So, I grabbed some patriotic paper, and printed some tags.
I try to save all my yarn labels, and I staple a few inches of yarn to each tag so I remember what was what.
That way I can reference the label and complete the information for each scarf.
To make it easier on the organization, I put each scarf in a plastic bag.
I did the same thing for the Hats for the Homeless donations- those scarves will be distributed to homeless people in NYC during the Christmas season.
Now that everything is packaged up, the next step is to carry the boxes to the post office... which is over 10 blocks away- wish me luck!
