a week later and...

I haven't forgotten about my new blog, I swear! It's just that now I've started it I am a little...worried that I wont know how to entertain people... Oi, how self-conscious of me.
So I'll start with some pretty pics of crafty stuff from last week to make this more interesting!

Need

 Ever since I learned how to knit about 5 years ago now it has been my main type of craft. Before that I was into sewing and de/re-constructing clothing, but alas was never very good at it. Funny, but I was never into yarn, sweaters, or scarves or any of that really. No interest in socks or shawls, but I began to see women around me knitting more and more. I started to stray from my sewing craft boards and found people who successfully knitted sweaters, hats and scarfs, and while I knew it couldn't be easy, it seemed simpler than getting my crappy sewing machines to work.
I think the real appeal of crafts for me is, one) a sense of creation, and two) a determined individualistic need to make crap myself. So even tho it takes longer to make a simple scarf than say, a skirt from a couple tee shirts, the finished object (FO, by the way) looks better, doesn't usually involve me screaming at a stubborn piece of machinery, and best of all, can be done anywhere, really everywhere! On the bus, at work (approx half my day is downtime), on the couch (it's much quieter during a movie, for instance, than any sewing machine I have ever used), road trips (most of my first FO was worked on in the car between Dela-Where? and Portland,Or).
Since I still have to look at my work I tend to put on a lot of movies I've seen a few times, (or sometimes a few hundred times) like today, working with a candy cane striped wool (think blue raspberry) cowl and watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which to be honest I can only get away with when I'm home alone...

Candy striped wool, lacy cowl, still in progress