Remembering to post here may be interesting...

I did a bit more work on the blanket that would not end this weekend. Two more color changes (about three inches of actual blanket) I'm already thinking of more interesting ways of modifying the pattern should I ever make it again. The double wrap knit stitch is interesting and I think if you alternated colors every row you'd end up with reversable blanket. That being said, I'm bored with this project a bit now though it makes reasonably good television watching sort of knitting. I think I'd be less bored with it if the color scheme was working out a bit better or more interesting. (I also think it would be interesting to do with noro or another self striping yarn...I have left over bits and pieces of noro, maybe I should make a few more arm warmers for people and use the remenants to make a blanket *grin*)

Of course the main reason that I was doing the blanket was to make some room in my stash since I was serious starting to overflow the plastic bin I have for it...so what do I do this weekend but order more yarn? Excercise in futility. *grin*

Well, here we go...

So this is all new and stuff...who knows how much I'll actually use it but we'll give it a shot. A bit about me is the place to start I guess. I'm a 32 year old gay male in the SF/bay area who's been knitting for about six months or so now and is pretty addicted at the moment. I grew up with a mom who crocheted constantly and never could teach me because she's left handed and I'm right handed (or so she claimed) but I used to wind her yarn balls for her and play with the yarn in general when she let me.

Anyway, having many friends who knit and are very vocal about it, and having a fairly large obsession with knowing how to make things from the beginning I finally picked up needles and yarn in June when I was home sick from work and feeling grumpy and bored. With the never ending ball of purple acrylic yarn that I still have a fair bit of I, I screamed, bitched, complained and made some hideously ugly things before getting the hang of the basics and making a scarf or two before moving on to bigger and better things (arm warmers, stuffed animals, suck at lace so far...the usual stuff)

Currently the only project I have in the works is a lap blanket that I bought the yarn for ages ago and finally sat down to start...good tv watching project...though one of the colors isn't working out as well as I hoped.