day one
This is the first day of my life as a blogger. I do realise that the internet is filled with blogs, although a few months ago I didn't. I've been a knitter and crafter from quite an early age. Creativity seems to run in the family. Very few of my friends ever seemed to like knitting though, I always felt hesitant to tell anyone, afraid that people would think it boring. And then I discovered knitting blogs and all of a sudden I realised that I was not the only one. Suddenly I was just one of many! It feels very good to know that there are so many people out there who are just like me.
As for the name of my blog: gee, is it hard to come up with anything original. All of the good names already seem to have been taken. So I chose "more like me", because that's what I want to be. I want to be myself, rather than what other people want me to be.
As I said at the beginning of this post, I do realise that there are already plenty of knittingblogs. I do not assume that I have anything new to offer.
I hope this blog will be a place where I can vent my thoughts and ideas, share them with others, be a blog knitter or knitting blogger among the rest of you. Join in the fun.
I even have something to show you (is anyone there?)in this first post. As I am the only knitter in my family, I had to learn by trial and error. Therefore I never learned to finish garments properly. I used to pin my finished items to a damp towel, put another damp towel on top and then iron the whole thing. This would flatten the edges and was a defenite improvement to no blocking at all, but not really how you want to treat your handknitted garments. As I started to discover knitting blogs a few months ago, I stumbled across Eunny Jang's blog. I couldn't believe what I saw there. She makes such amazing things (at such an amazing speed) and at an incredibly high standard. Reading her blog regularly (Eunny, if you should ever read this, I confess to having lurked for quite some time now) has been a true inspiration.
One of the things she inspired me to do, was to make a blocking board. I bought a piece of fibre board, tightly stapled a piece of check cotton to it, and hey presto; a blocking board.
So I figured this was the perfect time to finish the purple sweater I had lying around. It's Erin from Rowan magazine nr. 30. So I sewed in loose ends yesterday, gently soaked it (as I've read that is what you should do, I feel like such an idiot), and pinned it to my board.
I can't wait to sew all the pieces together now!
As for the name of my blog: gee, is it hard to come up with anything original. All of the good names already seem to have been taken. So I chose "more like me", because that's what I want to be. I want to be myself, rather than what other people want me to be.
As I said at the beginning of this post, I do realise that there are already plenty of knittingblogs. I do not assume that I have anything new to offer.
I hope this blog will be a place where I can vent my thoughts and ideas, share them with others, be a blog knitter or knitting blogger among the rest of you. Join in the fun.
I even have something to show you (is anyone there?)in this first post. As I am the only knitter in my family, I had to learn by trial and error. Therefore I never learned to finish garments properly. I used to pin my finished items to a damp towel, put another damp towel on top and then iron the whole thing. This would flatten the edges and was a defenite improvement to no blocking at all, but not really how you want to treat your handknitted garments. As I started to discover knitting blogs a few months ago, I stumbled across Eunny Jang's blog. I couldn't believe what I saw there. She makes such amazing things (at such an amazing speed) and at an incredibly high standard. Reading her blog regularly (Eunny, if you should ever read this, I confess to having lurked for quite some time now) has been a true inspiration.
One of the things she inspired me to do, was to make a blocking board. I bought a piece of fibre board, tightly stapled a piece of check cotton to it, and hey presto; a blocking board.
So I figured this was the perfect time to finish the purple sweater I had lying around. It's Erin from Rowan magazine nr. 30. So I sewed in loose ends yesterday, gently soaked it (as I've read that is what you should do, I feel like such an idiot), and pinned it to my board.
I can't wait to sew all the pieces together now!
posted by Maud at 2:45 AM
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