sarah in nyc

 The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is a fundraiser for a fancy Upper East Side charity that raises money for a  settlement house that provides programming for kids in Harlem. Each year they tap a select group of interior designers to decorate a big townhouse that is on the real estate market. Designers get some big deal publicity. Suppliers of high end wall paper, interior fabrics, antique dealers, drapers, carpeting companies and the like get to show off their wares. A potentially hard to sell home gets lots of foot traffic.  Thousands of people pay a fair amount of money to see all of the goodies in the house and the kids benefit from all of it. It is truly a win-win situation for everyone involved.  My older sister may have been the person who convinced me to go the first time I went. Usually the show house is on the Upper East Side. This year for the first time it was held on the West Side. Yesterday, three friends and I went together. You couldn't ask for a pret...

My buddy came to town on Wednesday for a New York fix. The wonderful thing about having a sewing buddy come to town is that it becomes possible to do the wall to wall fiber touring that my family can do only in small doses. Thursday we did lots of running around. Our day began at the Museum of the City of New York and the Valentina exhibit. Click here for a video about her work. http://www.style.com/video/fashion-moments/fashion-moments/1896809784/valentina-schlee/9341623001 We saw the Fashioning Felt exhibit at the Cooper Hewett. You can visit virtually http://http//exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/ . The exhibit was fabulous. It was just plain fun. It is such a tactile intense exhibit that I had to control myself from not just touching, but also rolling around on the pieces exhibited. Clearly, I wasn't the only person who felt this way, ( pun NOT intended) because there were small samples of the felt to touch near the exit of the exhibit. We also went to the Kips Bay...