http://wendyknits.net/knit/badass.htm

check out that link. That's sometime show I feel about knitting, I became interested in knitting when I was in the needlework aisle at B and N. I was looking for cross stitch books, and noticed Stitch and Bitch, and S and B Nation. I wanted, so very badly, to buy both books, but I had no idea how to get the thread onto the needles, and then how to make it knit. I did buy the first book, and I got home, and played with the thumb-cast method, but couldn't figure out the long-tail cast on. I  finally, out of desperation, went to the local yarn store one I am near, but one I knew to totally avoid even going into, even though I have  a love of fibers.

http://www.knitcraft.com/knitcraft/index.php at that  very store, in the middle, is a wicker table and chairs, and that is where I learned to knit.

I bought my needles, size 8 plastic, and some cheap yarn into the store, and she showed me how to do the long-tail cast on. I went home, and night after night, I did the cast on, so I wouldn't forget how. About this time, I joined the eGA (last August). I learned how to do hardanger soon after I leanred to do knitting. Then, I bought some fun fur by LB, and made my very first scarf, then,I bought some Caron's soft thick, and made a second scarf.

Then,  I bought my USM by Bond, and made a sweater and a vest and a shrug, and now a pair of socks. I like to do cross stitching, hardanger, and now, knitting. Knitting is cool cause you don't have to worry, oh gee, what am I going to do with it, I don't need another....(needleroll, picture, pin cushion, whatever....I hunger for needlerolls. I love them.)  http://www.shepherdsbush.net/products/kits/rolls/stitcher's.html

I have them displayed in a wire bowl. I have aobut 15 of them. All different.

That's my background. I've been around thread most of my life. My mom sews, and sews very well. I can't sew, but I can do all kinds of things with fibers.