First Post

Hi and welcome to my blog. I'm Lara, art museum educator by profession (at the Walker Art Center), knitter, reader, and runner by choice. I've started this blog for a couple of reasons. First and foremost to share my knitting successes and frustrations. I've become addicted to reading other knitting blogs, especially yarn harlot and the blue blog and love the idea of sharing my own knitting experiences with a larger community (I've tried to share my knitting passion with my spouse, but he's just not that interested- I can't figure it out!). I also love taking photos of my knitting projects and thought this would be a better use for them, rather than sticking them in a file in my basement.

A little background on my knitting experience: in high school my mother got me started knitting and of course my first project was a giant sweater. This is not the best kind of project for a beginning knitter- it just doesn't have that instant gratification factor that can really help to keep somone going. Needless to say, I gave up and several years later when I wanted to take it up again, that ugly, now totally outdated sweater, taunted me with its massive unfinished-ness. I quickly gave up.

A few years later however, I joined a book group in which many of the avid readers were also avid knitters. I started to see the types of projects that they worked on and realized there was a whole world of knitting out there that fit with me, my lifestyle and tastes. I quickly picked up some more recent books, Stitch 'n Bitch in particular and became much more motivated to pick up some sticks. The rest is history, as they say.

What do I like to knit? Things for myself, such as scarves and sweaters. I'm currently working on the wrap sweater from the cover of the most recent issue of Interweave Knits. I also like to knit for my son (my most recent projects for him were a couple of hats). I've done a scarf for my husband, now he's bothering me for a sweater- but I'm a little scared to enter into a project with such massive amounts of knitting. Of course he's not interested in something bold and chunky (and fast!). He did mention he'd like the Andre the Giant "Obey" scarf from the men's issue of Knitty. I'll post some pictures of current and recent projects tomorrow.