You know when a hobby has morphed into an obsession when you open a blog dedicated to knitting and crocheting.
Just... knitting and crocheting.
*headdesk*
Anyway, hi. I'm Liz, 22 years old, and I am addicted to knitting crocheting. Well, addicted to making things, really. I love to draw and paint, write and sculpt... anything that means creating. But I think we'll just stick to the yarnwork for the sake of simplicity, yes?
My first exposure to knitting came in middle school. My younger sister wanted to learn, so my mother attempted to teach her, and I was intrigued. Unfortunately my first mess (what was to be a scarf, or something) turned me off of the whole ordeal. It's too difficult, I thought.
Several years later, my sister once again expressed a desire to learn knitting. I went out and bought her a Boye "
I Taught Myself to Knit" kit from a local craft store, and gave it to her for Christmas. Months went by, and she showed no interest in opening it, so I asked if I could give it a try. Let's just say the contents of that kit now belong to me, and they have been well-used.
For a long time it was just an off-and-on hobby, mostly because I have a really short attention span, but also because the things I knitted had a tendency to curl up into tubes. I've since identified the problem and corrected it, but I've got a couple of scarf-tubes that could probably be frogged and re-done, I think.
Then came...
Ravelry. Oh. My. God.
You shouldn't have done that, Dave.
So many patterns-- and nice people-- and helpful links! I was completely and totally sucked in.
That was only a week ago. Since then, I have started 3 new projects, revived two old ones, and added at least ten to my project queue. I am, please forgive the pun, hooked.
I've been using the Note function so much on my projects on Ravelry that I decided it would be fun to just have a blog chronicling my fiberous adventures. I doubt anyone will read this/be interested except me, but if you do happen upon this blog for whatever reason, hi. Don't be shy. :)
