Ten Knitting Things About Me. (This has been making the rounds; I saw it here).

1. I started knitting again (after having learned as a child) in 1997 or so. I saw a ball of Wool-Ease in that autumn variegated color and wanted it. I started out making just a blah garter stitch scarf but when it was done, I had enough left over for mittens, and my mom showed me how to make mittens on double pointed needles. It was knitting in the round that hooked me.

2. I still try to knit things in the round as much as possible. And I prefer dpns to circulars for small projects. I know people love The Magic Loop or the two-circulars-for-socks thing, but for me - give me my double points, thanks.

3. I'm a selfish knitter; I don't do a lot for charity. My hat is off to the people who are unselfish.

4. I like variegated yarn. Probably more than is good for me.

5. My greatest knitting joy is getting to try out a new yarn. Oh, I have my yarn-loves, but there's a special joy in finding a new yarn from a new source or a new dyer and being able to try it out. And I love exotic fiber-combos.

6. If I knit a gift for you and you don't use it or don't seem to like it, don't expect anything handmade from me ever again. Yeah, it's selfish, but I like to expend my creation-time on people who will love and cherish what I've made.

7. I have many projects going at once. I'm happiest that way. Although if I have too many I do get kind of twitchy and sad - I think it's because I'm dividing my time so much I fail to see progress. I should probably sometime figure out the law-of-diminishing-returns of starting new things or the Gaussian Curve of Happiness as related to Number of Projects.

8. I don't really have a favorite project type. For years, I would have said socks were my favorite. But I also love lace shawls, and I've been feeling the sweater-love lately. And I can't forget knitted toys - I love to knit toys.

9. I've never tried entrelac. Mainly because I've not yet seen a project that was so much a have-to-have for me that I want to do it. (Also, for some reason - entrelac sweaters remind me of those giant baggy 80s style sweaters that you wore over leggings and with your hair all teased and sprayed up into a porcupine display. I know there's beautiful entrelac out there but I just can't get into it).

10. I'd far, far, far rather do cables, lace, or a fancy-stitch pattern than colorwork. Both because DOING colorwork irks me (I cannot keep a good tension for Fair Isle; I knit too tight) and because I'm less interested in how it looks when it's done. Cables and lace are what really make my heart soar.

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Well, I've done my obligatory research-time for the day. I'm still debating what Fun thing to do - whether to just go down to Denison for a quick few hours of antiquing and hit the used-book store and maybe lunch out, or whether to go home and get my boots and go up to Chickasaw. (I don't know though. The last time I was there alone, I interrupted some chap who was....ehrm...."communing" with nature off on a side trail. Kind of unsettling. So I'm a bit off of going hiking alone these days.)