Intro, long overdue

There's only so much time and so much that needs to be done. Laundry; cleaning, driving, cooking, placating, backscratching, the list never ends. Now I can no longer ignore this blog and it's time to get started.

I've been knitting since I was in high school. I tried before but I didn't quite get the hang of tension and purling. I ended up teaching myself from watching my aunts. So I knit backwards because my knitting was a mirror of theirs.

I started sewing when I was 5, handsewing. Then I started machine sewing when I was 10. Quite accomplished; I made my own wedding gown.

So now when I knit, I see it as a fabric and then imagine how to knit it. Like I tell my kids, it's all in the construction. An increase here, a yarnover there and I'm on my way!

Since I learned to knit backwards, I have a difficult time with lace. I'm a whiz with color - fairisle, intarsia, you name it. Cables aren't too bad. But lace.......not in this life.