Classy
So. This weekend was busy with activity and busy with knitting. On Saturday, Jacob and I went to his friend's wedding to be partially wedding guests but mostly to be the wedding photographers. (Jacob actually introduced me to some friend as his "photography assistant" and I was like, "And also I'm his girlfriend...") This is what Jacob looks like when he is in photographer mode:
Excuse me, ma'am, can I take your picture?
Can you stand it? He's so cute. Anyways, I got to run around with a camera bag and assist Jacob when his batteries ran dead or he needed another lens (Bring me the wide angle! STAT!), but I also got to drink and eat steak and hang out with a bunch of people I'd never met. It was actually really fun! The wedding was very small and intimate - about 50 people - and they got married in the main room of an art gallery in front of an arch window. It was really unusual! And of course Jacob got harassed about our marital status (someone said "What are you afraid of???" Hee hee.) but what else is new?
Here we are at dinner, being classy:
What? There's free food up in this joint?
A good time was had by all.
Oh, and the knitting content! I'm still working on the back of my Phildar sweater, almost done. Yep. I'm hoping to get started on the front this week.
I also knitted up a quick gift for JoAnna since she will be battling the COLD in New York very soon - a neck warmer from Vogue Knitting's k.1 !!
Here's Joanna modeling her new collar:
So fashionable. SO New York.**
It looked perfect with her camel colored coat. This neck warmer is so fast and easy to knit, and has a pretty crochet edge. Here's another view of it: clicky click! I'm definitely making a few more of these because I like them, but also because I have oodles of Lion Brand Kool Wool in bizarre colors that I can use... (purchased for a dollar a skein from the clearance bin at Hancock Fabrics)
Okay, I promise pics of sweater-in-progress AND pics of what sweater I'm knitting soon. This week. Yep.
**If Jay from Project Runway needs me to knit some of these for his models, I'm available. For a small fee, of course. ;)
Comments (21)
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Posted by Joann Livia | May 6, 2009 11:45 AM
O-M-G... I am moving from Sunny Socal - to Chicago in 2-weeks. Being from Cuba (very tropical) and hearing that I am going to freeze, I decided to slowly stock up on fun essentials that would let me be fashionable and warm at the same time. That is when I came across your picture...so CUTE!!!!!! Are you making these and selling them?!?!?! Please say
YES!!!!!!!!
Posted by Cathy | August 24, 2008 1:52 AM
I love the buttons you chose for the neckwarmer! They make great contrast.
Posted by Becky | March 4, 2005 3:41 AM
You and Jacob look so cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute! Love the collar too! Kinda makes me wanna make one!
Posted by Lara | March 3, 2005 7:27 PM
I love playing photographer at weddings! or anywhere really. It's so much fun.
I love your neckwarmer! It's on my never-ending to do list...
Posted by melanie | March 3, 2005 3:48 PM
Oh I have that Knit1 at home and now I'm totally gonna make some neck warmers! You guys are cute as photographer and assistant! Chris and I were once videographer and assistant at a friend's wedding. It was an Indian to American wedding - so there were two ceremonies and everything!
Posted by BigLug | March 3, 2005 8:38 AM
Hi Carrie! I love that neckwarmer! Does it have buttonholes, or do the buttons just come trough the stitches? I like your blog very much!
Posted by Susanna | March 3, 2005 6:12 AM
Oooh....neckwarmer is tres chic.
I loooooved Jay's knits on "Project Runway." I wish some magazine could beg him to let them publish the pattern for that cute blue poncho!
Posted by Abigail | March 2, 2005 7:58 PM
Woo-wee, look at your schmoo all dressed up so fine. That's a good one you got there...
ORANGE BUTTONS! Right on.
Posted by jenny | March 2, 2005 6:17 PM
that collar rocks! i will have to go find a knit1 and make one for my nyc-livin' self.
and jay is the best. i was so excited when he won. :)
Posted by melissa j | March 2, 2005 2:39 PM
CUTE!! I love the neck warmer- so cool and fun with red buttons!
Posted by Camille | March 2, 2005 1:39 PM
Sounds like you have a future career ahead of you as a photographer's assistant. :)
Very cute neck warmer. I just moved to CT so I might have to look into making one (or a couple!) of those. I love the very contrasting colors. Great look.
By the way, Jay would be crazy not to hire ya!
Posted by Erin | March 2, 2005 12:28 PM
Carrie...he is a cutie! Looks like you guys had fun.
I really like that collar. Definitely NY!!!
Posted by Eilene | March 2, 2005 9:00 AM
HOTTIES!!!
Both of you are so cute, can you blame folks for wanting you to get hitched and have cutey babies that you can knit little sweaters and booties and blankets for?!?! But first things first...that time will come for you, I'm sure.
Now I know why all the pictures on your blog are so good... ;)
Posted by Christie | March 1, 2005 7:11 PM
i love my neck-warmer!!! my teamie is the best.
Posted by joanna | March 1, 2005 4:13 PM
I saw the neck warmer in person last night, it's fabulous and it's SO JoAnna! As for the wedding stuff...the phototgraphy assistant gig sounds pretty cool. You get to have a free meal, dress up, and be fancy pants.Excellent.
Posted by Anne Marie | March 1, 2005 3:18 PM
Damn it, now I need to knit a neckwarmer with bright little buttons! I don't have time to knit a neckwarmer! Curse you, Caaaaarrrrrriiiiie!
Posted by alison | March 1, 2005 1:39 PM
If I EVER EVER say that to anyone after I am married, PLEASE SHOOT ME. (It just reminds me of "smug married couples"- BJ diary) So obnoxious.
We have also had to hear that from everyone for a long time. As if they are telling you because you just haven't had the idea... Oh! Right-o, thanks for reminding me- where's the priest?
Posted by frecklegirl | March 1, 2005 12:43 PM
Oooh. Wedding photography. Will not go there. Honestly. I'd actually rather take pictures of snotty nosed toddlers that can't keep their sticky hands off my camera than shoot a wedding. But you guys look like you had fun! (Is that a Canon digital I see around Jacob's neck?)
As far as the people yelling at you about getting married - my (now) husband always used to counter with: Why? So I can be miserable like you?
Diclaimer - after eleven years of unmarried bliss - we actually did tie the knot. But we were alone, with a JP, in Vermont. And we went to a baseball game for our honeymoon. So it doesn't really count!
Posted by Cara | March 1, 2005 12:32 PM
Hey my only chance is that enough people will ask the bf wy we aren't married so that he'll get annoyed with it and propose already! I'm mostly teasing. Joanna looks so cute in the collar, I love the buttons :)
Posted by Vicki | March 1, 2005 12:30 PM
Someone actually said "what are you afraid of?"?!? Argh!
That is a lovely neck-warmer! The warmth of a scarf without the risk of getting it caught in a Subway door! You could make big bucks selling those in NYC...
Posted by Deana | March 1, 2005 12:05 PM