I'm restarted a knitting blog. Why, you might ask after my last failed attempt? Well, things are different in my life right now. One being that I'm currently not working, so I have more time to devote to things like blogs and knitting in general. I think that I've already surpassed all the amount of knitting that I did from 2008 to 2010 during Jan 2011 to today. I know that tons of people work and knit, but I guess that wasn't working out that great for me. I didn't stop knitting, but it was definitely low on my list of things to do. It also didn't help that at the time I was driving 45 minutes one way to work and by the time I would get home and finish dinner, it was sometimes close to 8pm, leaving me only about 2 hours before I went to bed.
I've also been learning a lot about knitting recently and working hard to expand my skill set. Part of that expansion has been taking a Design Your Own Shawl class taught online by Stefanie Japel. I'll write more about that later, as I'm still winding down and I'm working to finish up the shawl. Another skill set I'm working on is learning to knit Continental. I'm going to be joining a knitting guild and the next project is Fair Isle knitting. This is going to be a double whammy of learning. I will be learning Continental knitting AND Fair Isle at the same time. I spent some time yesterday working on the Continental knitting and all I can say is that my brain hurts. I have no experience with Fair Isle knitting, though I do have some experience with color knitting. Emphasis on the word some.
Okay, I think that is gonna be it for now. I'm going to try to post fairly frequently and I'll mostly be posting about knitting with some personal aspects of my life!
Happy Knitting!!
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