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New York City, not much knitty. I went to New York, and though I certainly knit up a storm in my hotel room (and a bit in the various theatre—my colleague Lisa is going to end up with a scarf, half of which sat through all the shows below), unlike May's trip there was no knitting (or crochet) to speak of in the shows I saw. None of the characters proudly waltzed around with giant shawls, or Hogwarts' scarves, or traditional Scandinavian sweaters. Nope, it was all glitter an

Ugh, the stash. It's funny how much I love/loved each individual item in the stash, but collectively, I hate 'em ... which is incidentally often the way I feel about children and Netflix dramas: each one's wonderful, but a bit overwhelming four or five or more at a time. This week I tackled the stash. My goal was to make it less hidden (i.e. currently all my yarn is dumped in large Japanese fabric boxes, albeit mostly-but-not-entirely sorted by weight) and more useful. I t