Ravelry.com and the knitting addiction

Finally have added some more projects to my www.ravelry.com account. My friend over there, purlypeach, is sooooo right. It is addictive.

I started knitting at the tender age of 5-6; I remember my first scarf - a blue, one, in cotton of all things. My dear Grandmama gave me this huge ball of yarn to knit up. The incentive was that there were little trinkets hidden in the ball for me to find as I knitted along. I just remember not really liking the scarf and wishing I could get to the prizes faster than I could knit.

My next memorable project was a Dr. Who (aka Tom Baker) scarf. I made it for my sister, who is also a Whovian. The darn thing must have ended up at 5 or 6 feet long by the time I finished it.

After that, I didn't do much knitting at all. Until, one fine summer, I learned to handspin yarn at a summer camp for adults up in the mountains of West Virginia. The focus of the camp is music - dancing every night! - but mountain crafts are also taught. So, I learned to spin yarn and came home with a spinning wheel and a fleece to process. Naturally, making yarn led back to knitting again. Nothing like working up a gorgeous fleece and then making something out of it.

Now I'm finishing up a sweater out of a lovely English yarn made of Wensleydale Longwool. Yummy stuff. Photos are over at flickr.com.