Welcome! Thanks for stopping by for a read. I'm a self-taught knitter of just over 10 years who has recently become obsessed. Knitting has been a constant through the past 10 years to help me adjust to transitions in my life and I now am reaching a transition point in my knitting.
I first started knitting when I moved from the northeast to the midwest on my own to attend graduate school. I found it a good way to pass lonely hours and to create some things just to prove that my hands could. When I was first learning I would often call one of my grandmothers who would always be willing to give me advice and even offered to fix a mistake I had made if I just sent her the piece I was working on. Her advice to me was that Red Heart Yarn was the best because you could find it at Wal-Mart and there were no dye lots on most of their yarn. For a good bit of my time knitting I stuck with that advice.
When I moved back to the northeast to attend law school I got the itch to knit more because of the cold and snowy Connecticut winters and because it helped me to de-stress from school. I started looking at yarns at different stores, like Michael's and A.C. Moore and discovered that there is more to knitting than just Red Heart! I fell in love with self-striping yarn and started thinking maybe I could knit with a wool blend instead of just acrylic.
When I started finding knitting podcasts on itunes and then started listening to them, I discovered a whole world of knitting that I didn't know existed! I had really only been knitting scarf and baby blankets and decided to try something a little more complicated than just a knit-purl only pattern. My sister and I took on the idea to make an afghan for my mother that had a simple cable pattern in it and used more than one color - both things I had never attempted. I loved it! I couldn't believe I could figure it out and make it look like the pamphlet!
When I moved yet again, it was to a town with a yarn shop and I went to visit. I had joined Ravelry and had found a bunch of patterns I wanted to try. I fell in love with Clapotis and decided to knit one for all my sisters. I bought my very first Noro and my very first alpaca, that I just needed to find the right pattern for.
Now, I am in the last place I plan on moving to and I have 5 clapotis under my belt, a tiny stash and more than one project on my needles. I have recently decided I want to knit socks (even though I have tried to in the past on double pointed needles and have had no success) and am determined to learn to do it on a circular needle. I am attempting my first lace pattern with that beautiful alpaca yarn I bought two years ago. I also have a gorgeous skein of lace weight merino wool purchased at a farmers market and I finally found the perfect pattern to knit with it.
That's where I am for now. I've been having a good time figuring out the scarf I'm working on and have been talking my fiancee's ear off about it. I decided to start the blog to share my excitement with other knitters and to give his ear a break. He is very supportive, however. He remembers that the thingy I just finished knitting is a clapotis, not just a scarf. He know that the yarn I'm using is alpaca, not just yarn. He knows I'm going to find something to knit for him even though he protests this is Louisiana and everything I knit is too warm for the climate, even if it's a Saints colors beer coozie. He also knows that if we ever win the lottery, he can retire, but I will be opening a yarn shop here in town.
Happy knitting.
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