“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

OK, so I’m starting today. Hiya. Welcome to my blog! I intend for this to be a blog about knitting, mainly, with some color commentary about life and whatnot thrown in.

My goals for this blog / website:

1. to disseminate good, accurate, free information about knitting.
2. to sell even better, accurate information about knitting.
3. to babble, preach and vent about knitting.

My qualifications:

Knitting is something I’ve been doing the majority of my life. I was fascinated by my older sister’s knitting at age 6, and have been crocheting and knitting ever since.

I’ve been teaching knitting in the PDX area for nearly 4 years. In that time, I’ve found there are a number of things that a lot of knitters don’t know, that I think knitters probably should know. Things that make your knitting life easier, and your knitting better. I’ve also found there is a lot of knitting misinformation out there, and I hate to see good knitters following bad directions or advice.

And lastly, I’m a big fan of accuracy and technical proficiency. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.

My history:

I worked in the high-tech industry as a process engineer for 11 years. After several “interesting” corporate world experiences, I wised up, and decided to make that female gender-thing work for me, instead of against me: so, with DH’s full approval, I quit. (It’s quite a story, but I’ll save it for another day.)

Theoretically, I was planning to give myself a one year sabbatical, and then figure out some other respectable career to launch myself into: say, technical writing.

In reality, I became a [gulp] housewife.

There I was, hogtied by my strong, Midwestern-bred, raised-Catholic senses of responsibility and guilt, and unable to justify (to myself) sitting around eating bon-bons all day.

So – I started teaching knitting.  Which led to writing patterns, which led to writing e-books, which has now led to writing this blog.

I wonder what’s next?