Memorial Day Means Montauk & Yarn
Montauk-The End
As beach-loving New Yorkers, My husband and I have ready access to numerous beaches including famous beaches within the city’s boundaries and those along the southern coast of Long Island and the eastern edge of New Jersey. Given our penchant for relatively empty beaches, an oxymoron in New York City in the summer, we like to take a day trip to the land’s end otherwise known as Montauk. Of course, the three hour plus train trip isn’t everyone’s idea of heaven but I bring knitting and my husband brings reading.
The beaches are wonderful with their sparse dunes and bent over wind bent trees. We were among the hardy souls who braved the windy weather on Memorial Day. We nestled just below the dunes to be sheltered from the wind which was too much for our umbrella. We needed to wrap up with hoods to keep the flying sand out of our hair. The sands buried our blanket so completely that if we hadn’t be laying on it, we would have never found it.
Dunes at Montauk Beach
Montauk Beach - Deserted due to wind
By mid-afternoon, we were ready for a visit to Purl By the Sea. Purl By the Sea is a wonderful local yarn store run by Nora Franzetti who is also a real estate agent in Montauk. The store is packed with a great selection of yarns from the budget conscious Lamb’s Pride to small producers. There’s a large table in the middle of the store that her husband built. It always has a great of friendly women crowded around with lots of food, chocolate and laughter. My husband who was nestled in the spouse’s rocker said that he felt good listening to the laughter.
Cotton Color Selection at Purl by the Sea
Yarns burst out to greet knitters at Purl by the Sea
Manos deep color hangs over the knitting table at Purl by the Sea
I bought some aqua colored Tahki cotton to make the Medallion top from the cover of Vogue Knitting Summer 2009. (Since I had 4 1/2 balls of white in my stash from a yarn swap, I only bought 5 balls. due to the fact that the women tried to talk me into another color, I think that there will be more if I run out.) I plan to make it on my vacation in June.
Submitted by Knitted Yarns Editor-in-Chief
I loved the blog and the beautiful pictures and the plug for Purl by the Sea and Nora Franzetti Real Estate. I would love the see the finished product when you get done. It was great to see you again
Nora