...the emergence of the knitting blog....

It has finally happened. I have succumb to blogging about my knitting addiction...
I've wanted to do this for a long time. I even secured this blog name more than two years ago, in the eventuality of wanting to share the knitting fever with others.
I have know how to knit badly since I was eight years old. I think it was a stint of babysitting or after school care, or something...but all I remember is this big house, lots of girls, and a funny smell. The woman who looked after us was perhaps 50 or so and thought that we all needed "civilizing" and that the way to do this was to teach us all how to knit. Being who I am I hated it (if you were a "children should do what I say" kind of person, I was your personal nightmare as a child). All I remember knitting was endless squares. I think my mom attempted to teach me how to purl once not long after, but it didn't really stick. I didn't knit again for 17 years.
When my mom passed away she left me with a trunks worth of stash. All sorts of strange and wonderful (and some not so wonderful) fibers. Lots of needles too. She also left behind a fabulous book called Needle Craft, that I remember being one of the "adult" books I poured over as a kid. As I have since decided with her wondrous guitar, I decided that I couldn't just leave all this yarn sitting in a trunk doing nothing, that I better learn to knit!!! And so I did...and I became addicted.
I don't knit all the time. I go through spurts, like PMS or something. I knit obsessively for weeks on end. I drool over patterns on-line, I haunt yarn stores fondling all the expensive fibers (I have very expensive taste in yarn), and I am always with a pair of needles within arms reach. And then I burn out. For months I will ignore knitting all together. Until I discover it again, through a irresistible pattern, or a yarn I must have...
Currently I am in a knitting frenzy (probably in order to ignore impending school related deadlines). So, here goes, the odyssey that is my knitting experience...