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though i haven't been doing much lately (see
who i am, part one: mama), my other passion is knitting. about eight years ago, when i was working at borders, i started to notice that the new knitting books coming in had some pretty awesome stuff in them. i formed a vague ambition to learn how to knit. i must have expressed said notion to my mother-in-law, because she gave me
debbie stoller's stitch 'n bitch one christmas, along with some number eight needles and worsted weight yarn. the first night, i sat there squinting at the pictures and trying to figure out how exactly to get from point a to point b. i ended up giving up, totally frustrated, and went to bed. but i couldn't stop thinking about it. i fell asleep thinking about it, and in my dream, i was back on the couch with the needles in my hand, trying to knit. somehow it came to me how to do it. the next morning, when i tried again, it worked! i made a stitch! once i figured it out, i was off and running. then i made an even greater discovery: yarn stores. like, real yarn stores, with bins full of delicious yarns in the most beautiful and rich colors and textures. i say delicious because it evokes a feeling in me similar to hunger, i just want to eat it, stick my face in it and breath it in. i don't, of course, that would make me like the guy who eats books at the library, and i'm not quite that crazy yet. eventually i got bored with scarves, hats, & fingerless gloves and moved on to more interesting things like cupcakes and donuts and snakes. a few years ago, i knit a hand grenade from a pattern, and while i loved the idea, i hated the pattern. so i decided i would make
my own grenade. that was my first original design, followed naturally by the
bomb. i now have four designs, and my goal is to have a book-full of them ready to publish by the time i hit forty. i love libraries, but it would also be really fun to make a living with my knitting. a girl can dream, anyway.
