My First Full DPN FO!

Ok ok a pair would be an fo but one mitt will have to do. I'm making these for Bean to wear when bike riding. They're Tailgate Mitts. Very easy to knit other than the fact that it's sock yarn done on size 2 dpns. It took a little getting used to but it was awesome! I'm working on the second one now and other mitts also for a friend's daughters. The other mitts are the same ones I made for Bean before, knit on straights. A nice, easy, mindless knit. Because they suit me some days. Nice, easy and mindless.

Today Al and I are going to go on a tour of upper east side yarn shops. We haven't checked out the stores up there yet and we figured we'd go have a lookie loo. We're gonna go to Annie's, String, Woolgathering and hopefully Knitting321. I'm sure we'll stop for lunch along the way and have a nice stroll on a beautiful spring day here in Manhattan.
If you don't know about this site, you gotta go see it. It's called Knitmap and all you have to do is enter a zip code and it gives you a bunch of lys in the area! It's so cool! There are reviews, which you can obviously choose not to read, and the info is extensive regarding location, time and what's available.
Al and I went to The Point on Tuesday and had the pleasure of hanging out with a gentleman we had met before named Mark. We had so much fun with him! We laughed and chatted and knitted. Ok not so much kntting but oodles of laughing and talking. Mark is an awesome knitter with an eye for color that just cannot be beat. If you go to The Point's website and look at Febuary's blog, you'll see Mark there with a sweater he steeked. He's a great guy who is brilliant, gorgeous and so much fun to talk to. We were a bit boisterous and I was apologetic but the girls at The Point thought it was great that we had so much fun! Oh and I bought some Pastaza (big surprise) and some Heritage sock yarn. At 20% off. Love a deal!
I'll let you know how our LYS crawl goes today. Happy knitting!