About

While this is far from my first blog, or website for that matter (my first was sometime in 1994, back when geocities was popular), this is my first knitting and crochet-centric blog.

I first learned how to knit and crochet when I was a small child, but my mind has since blocked out most of that except for a few small pieces. My mother can knit and crochet, though she prefers crocheting. Two of her sisters crochet, and my grandmother knit and crocheted. I can always tell if a blanket has been made by my mother’s mother, because she always used the exact same pattern. Unfortunately, I didn’t even know about this side of her until long after she passed on; I mostly remember her as a petite Acadian woman, mother of 7 (!), and an avid piano player.

I didn’t take an interest in trying to learn until 2005, which was otherwise a dark and trying year for me. I mean dark literally, by the way. Me and my husband were living in the US, and I was unable to get a job while he worked at nights. So, this meant long hours for me staying up all night with not much else to do. I bought a Knit This kit from Target and tried to knit a yoga mat bag. That was much too hard for a first project (I couldn’t handle 120 stitches of lace, or understand how anyone did handle it), but I learned how to knit from the video, and expanded on that with help from the internet and Debbie Stoller’s wonderful books.

A few months later, I decided that I wanted to try crochet too. I struggled with learning, until a combination of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Knitting and Crochet and Debbie Stoller’s The Happy Hooker set me straight. I finally learned how to crochet, and now I do both, often. I currently live in Atlantic Canada.