Tuesday, May 22, 2007

In the beginning…

I suppose I should start out by giving a little background about our group. Sarah, the grandmother knitter of the group (not because of her age but because of her aptitude) sparked my interested in knitting about two years ago. Although she is an amazing knitter, her ability to teach someone how to knit leaves something to be desires, so I turned to my next door neighbor and the internet for help. Within a week I was off and running. Next comes Stephanie; a friend that I work with that swore she did not have a creative bone in her body. Well, after I helped her with one of those no sew fleece blankets that were ever so popular about 2 years ago she became a crafting convert and in no time was cajoled into learning how to knit. Being the patient teacher type that I am was on the job teaching her to knit using terms like “stab, poke and pierce”. From that point on she was hooked.

Our combined love for the Amazing Race and knitting quickly drew us together every Tuesday night to watch the Race and knit. Although the Amazing Race has changed nights and Sarah’s school schedule fluctuates we try to get together once a week to watch the Race, either live or DVR and knit. A knitting group was born…

OK well that brings us up to present day. Why now? Good question. We each individually thought having a blog and showing people what we were working on would be an interesting idea but none of us wanted the responsibility for having to keep one up. Then came the all anticipated Sockapolloza 4 and everything changed. Once we joined we immediately thought this would be a great reason to start us on our blogging adventure.

Our plan is to keep people up to date on what we are working on knitting wise and anything else that seems important like saving the planet, or stabilizing the world economy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Christian. I am your sockpal. I am excited to see that you have entered the blogging world. It's fun for me to learn a bit about you (and your knitting friends) while I'm making your socks. I think you'll like what I am making for you. Well, "making" isn't quite the right term since I am still in the planning stage. I've got the yarn and the pattern but haven't started yet because I am making a pair for myself out of a different colorway of the same yarn first. I'm thinking of it as a "test" pair (also known as an-excuse-for-me-to-use-the-yarn-for-myself pair). I have a blog too but I believe I am supposed to remain anonymous to you, right? It is my first sockapalooza so I am a little unclear about the extent of anonymity I am supposed to maintain.