About me
I started this blog in March 2005 (first on Blogger and then, in May 2005, on my own domain using WordPress), and my regular readers know I try to keep my content fairly knitting-related and only let the rest of my life sneak in, oh, maybe 20 percent of the time. However, when reading others’ blogs I always appreciate the opportunity to get a little background and context about the author, so on this page I’m attempting to provide that to interested readers. Personally, I can rarely make it through 100 things about a person, so I won’t go into quite that much detail, but if you have any questions, just ask — my life is pretty much an open book. A sort of predictable, mass-market paperback kind of open book.
I live in Rhode Island with my husband of however many months/years it has been since September 5, 2004. We are the proud if occasionally reluctant parents of three little darlings: Fatty, Stupid, and Whiny.
I am n years old, where n is an integer equal to the value of x minus 1978, where x is the present year. Oh yes, I’m also a geek. (Actually, if you’re doing this calculation between January 1 and February 18, n equals x minus 1978 minus 1.)
I am a higher education fundraiser at a nearby university (my alma mater). If this blog somehow provokes some sicko to stalk me/kill me/send me expensive chocolates, this is probably enough info to go on. Be warned that our cats are trained military assassin cats, though. Seriously.
I grew up in a small town in New Hampshire and, like any good 18-year-old, couldn’t wait to get out after graduating from high school. My feelings toward the place have softened quite a bit since then, but I don’t have any great desire to move back there.
I scored a 2 on the stupidity test (less stupid than 98 percent of quiz takers) and 95 percent liberal on the “How liberal/conservative are you?” test. Draw your own conclusions.
I was raised Unitarian Universalist and proselytize to anyone who seems interested in learning more about this open, thoughtful, and, in my opinion, most excellent religion. My husband is Jewish (Reform) and our religions match up better than you might think. We will be raising our kids Jewish and will continue our campaign to change what we feel is Judaism’s often self-defeating attitude toward intermarriage. Our other religion is Red Sox fandom.
About Knitting Me
I learned to knit in the fall of 1999 from my roommate Liz. Liz taught me how to knit English style. I later discovered that she herself knits continental but thinks it’s easier to teach English style. As I have never been able to break my English-knitting habit (in spite of several attempts), I have never forgiven her.
My first project was a pair of heavy woolen socks with some minor multi-color detail. It is amazing to me that I ever continued knitting after beginning with that project.
I knit moderately but regularly until the summer of 2003, when something happened that shattered my faith in knitting as a fun, relaxing hobby. I was just about finished with the front of a cabled aran sweater (the back was already done) when I realized that I had never changed to larger needles after doing the hem ribbing. There was no getting around the fact that it needed to be taken out completely. Instead of doing that, I cast it aside and did not touch any knitting at all for a full year and a half. (I had not yet reached maturity as a knitter, which includes accepting the fact that frogging is a part of knittting. I’m not saying you have to accept it graciously, but you have to accept it.)
One day in January 2005 I was about an hour away from getting on a 6 hour flight when the urge to knit hit me out of nowhere, and hard. I scrambled around to gather up that cast off project and all the necessary tools, and on the plane I frogged the whole front of the sweater and started anew. I have been knitting obsessively ever since. That March I debuted Lickety Knit and, with the help of my beloved blogfriends, I have been knitting and learning more and more all the time.
I may add on to this as soon as I think of several scintillating, not-to-be-missed facts about myself (I could have sworn there were some), but this should keep the masses happy for now. Right, masses?
