If someone had told me a year ago that I would be starting a craft blog, I would have probably told you that you had the wrong blogger.  I’ve never considered myself particularly crafty.  I have very limited artistic vision.  I cannot look at a pile of  construction paper, glitter and googly eyes and picture a finished project.  Heck no.  I couldn’t draw myself out of a paper bag.  I’ve done pretty well with taking someone else’s drawings and manipulating them into a graphic but doing my own from scratch?  FORGET IT.  I just totally lack that talent.

Which is why I was so surprised that I took so easily to knitting.  It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.  But ever since the time that I tried to take up quilting and bombed so miserably, I simply assumed that all such related crafts would be dead to me.

Don’t get me wrong:  I enjoy crafting.  I like creating little things and then marveling at what I’ve done.  Glueing, painting, sewing, building… it’s all fun.  But I would never go so far as to say it’s a hobby.  It’s more like… when crafts are on the menu, I’m game.  It’s a nice way to pass time.

Still, I wanted to knit.  I wrangled my mother in law to teaching me how, since books couldn’t adequately describe to me WHERE to put the yarn and the needle.  I even had a hard time keeping up with some online videos as the knitter in them would go too fast for me to see where everything was going.  But once my mother in law taught me the basics… cast on, knit and purl, well… the rest came a lot easier.  Now I can look at the videos and figure it out.  I learned how to increase, decrease, kitchener stitch, knit in the round, do short rows and so much more from knitting videos.  Turns out, all I needed were the basics to build upon.  And I can now look at those books to get a good idea of how to do a new technique or remind myself what a KRL is and how to do it for those times when I’ve forgotten.

I’ve been posting my exploits on my regular blog but that isn’t entirely fair to that blog or the people who have read it.  That blog is not a craft blog.  I wanted to have a separate spot to keep all my crafty stuff.  Also, since I am in the knitting business now, I wanted a place to keep track of my customs list.  And to post results of projects.  And talk about geeky knitting stuff.

So this blog was born.

Thanks for joining me on the ride!