these three are all there as large , mounted, coated photographic prints, and as
small lovely cards singly, and as a set with those below
I made a limited printing for the week but will re-stock and sell by mail, too. If you are interested, send me a message at galeATgzucker.com
Jani
Estell herself, perhaps a little stunned, just after we finished
setting up the pop up shop on Monday. Instant yarn store! It was
magical how beautifully it fit in. I hope you have a chance to visit
this week (Jan 13-18th).
POP UP ADDRESS: 80 east 7th street, NY NY between 1st and 2nd Aves. HOURS: 12-6 thru Sunday only till 9 pm Thursday 1/16. on Thursday 1/16 and Saturday 1/18 there are gatherings with Jani, Kay Gardiner (who masterminded this) and FOJ (Friends of Jani) knitwear luminaries like Kirsten Kapur and Mary Jane Mucklestone and I hear Laura Nelkin will pop in the pop up too.
3 hours earlier, standing in a chilly drizzle in the middle of East 7th street, as Kirsten Kapur/Through the Loops, Jani and Yliana unloaded the woolpacked-to-the-gills car. You know Kirsten has many talents, and it turns out one is making delicious cascading arrangements of yarn.Sooo tempting.
Here's Jani and her husband Grant, on Nash. Keep in mind they live in the woods, in a town of 400 or so, Down East (that's way north in regular geography) so this whole shop in NYC for a week is just...radical, I guess, is the best word to use. I feel like you need to see a little more of Jani's "real life" to understand where the gorgeous handyed yarn she's brought down comes from. I'm super lucky to have crossed paths and become friends over the last few years. Helping out at the roundup and shearing on the island is a standout joyous top ten day of any year.
Jani commuting to work with the flock, by lobster boat, with Alfie Wakeman, the island owner. Cleat, the orphan sheep last year, rides along.
The view Jani is used to. Not quite lower Manhattan. Still, no parking.
Tossing a just sheared fleece onto the skirting table . All of her yarn comes from the island sheep.
So, last year at this time, and in 2010, I went to Rhinebeck for the NY Sheep & Wool Festival, set up my big white backdrop, and invited everyone to pose in their handknit finery for what became my Rhinebeck Style photo project. It was a blast. And it evolved into a book. That isn't ready yet.
What I've got for you? A glimpse of everything. It takes more than 8 minutes, and feels like a home movie. For a very large & covered-in-knitwear family. So get a cuppa and pull up a chair.*
I can't tell you how much I appreciate every single one of you who posed. Thank you.
My favorite part of the festival is our special world on the fairgrounds, where you not only
don't look loony even though you're wearing 4 layers of handknits...but you
are greeted by strangers who know the pattern by name, applaud your stitches and can shout out your colorway and yarn dyer at twenty paces.
Curious about the book? Get yourself onto the elist from Cooperative Press, they'll be my publishers, at the bottom of that linked page. * I'm not as savvy as I might be about what size to insert a video in a blog--I know some of you are reading it on an iphone and I don't want to jam it up...so if you find that window, above, too tiny, you can try this YouTube link for a clearer view. (or...so I hope)
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ps I am not doing the photo booth this year...but I am teaching a Photo Safari workshop each morning, so you may see us wandering the grounds..and you probably can still strike a pose...
