![]() ![]() Now that I'm here, I'm as happy as a clam! I've got a sunny little apartment in Brooklyn, a great job, and some wonderful friends. Moving to the city was the hardest, most rewarding thing I've ever done. Then my husband was offered a job in New York City, and we decided move! I spent 2 blissful years painting my brains out in my beautiful little studio in the deep woods outside of Norman, Oklahoma. ![]() I graduated with a degree in fine art (painting and pottery) and immediately put that degree to work. Hancock's kept the better part of the paychecks they issued me all the way through college too. I got a part time job at Hancock Fabrics Store my senior year of high school, and I really thought I had made it. ![]() I would bring my needles to a party and knit coasters for the host and koozies for the guests. At 16, I needed a more "social" craft, so I typed "how to knit" into a search engine. I'd stay up all hours of the night figuring out how to fit a collar, working out a welt pocket, or finding out just how big I could make my silly bell bottoms with looking too weird. There were prom dresses and Halloween costumes and a veritable MOUNTAIN of pajama pants. In high school I would borrow my friends jeans and copy the patterns. In the 8th grade, I learned how to make a pair of boxer shorts in home economics, and thought I might just be able to take over the world! It wasn't long before, my dear sweet mother, with an instinct sharper than even my beloved gingher scissors, gave me her old Bernina 830 sewing machine. I started designing my own patterns about 30 seconds after I learned how to cast on, but before that I learned how to sew. ![]() So this is my life story as it pertains to fibers. This is intimidating stuff, folks! I suppose I should explain myself and my intentions here, right? I want to use this blog as a forum to share my passion for knitting and pattern design. ![]()
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