After reading knitting blogs a bit obsessively over the past few months, I've decided to try my hand at it. I've been impressed enough with the Yarn Harlot, the Knitting Wench, Atropos, and others to have finished a Clapotis in record time, and the urge to record my knitting in words and pictures as well is by now insatiable. And yes, "blog envy," as the Knitting Wench says, is a pretty good way of putting it!
When I can get past the basics of TypePad, I will post a brief "About Me," but for now I will write that I am a married at-home mother of two pre-school daughters, an English major and former library cataloger, located for the next six months or so in Hong Kong, but otherwise from Southern California. I have been knitting off and on for about 25 years, I think, partly self-taught from the old "Golden Hands" series and partly learning from my mother, an experienced and dedicated knitter.
("Former" cataloger -- is there such a thing? Once a cataloger, always....)
"Bluestocking" is an 18th-century word, even now usually derogatory, for a bookish woman (see a longer explanation at Bartleby). The "stocking" part is, of course, a nice little pun that probably needs no explanation on a knitting blog....
Here is the first picture of my current work-in-progress, a Rosedale cardigan by Amy Swenson, in Noro Silk Garden #39 --
I started it here in Hong Kong last Tuesday, on the back first, as I had brought only one pair of needles, size 7 straights (the sleeves are to be worked in the round), and it has quickly managed to fill those almost to bursting.
We found a yarn shop this afternoon, Mui Tong Co., at 28 Bonham Strand in Central, near the Sheung Wan MTR station. All I bought this time was needles -- this set me back a mere HK$199, about US$25. The shop is definitely worth another trip, when the Rosedale is finished, and I will be thinking about projects for Filatura di Crosa wools, as that seems to be Mui Tong's specialty.
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