Lover of scrumptious yarn and kitty kats and the peace they provide me!



Sunday, December 12, 2010

New to this blogging thing!!

Ok, so here is my first post!!  There are so many blogs that I follow that I thought Dana, why do you do a blog??  So here it is.  Not sure what I will be sharing, probably just the ramblings of woman who just wishes she could knit all  the time and can't.

So what do I like to knit?  Most anything.  I have oodles of projects started, as I am suffering from what seems to be an  uncurable curse of "startitis", you know, when you get a skein of yummy new yarn or find a super duper new pattern..you cast on..work on the project until a new pattern or yarn comes along, then it starts all over again!! 

Another knitting passion I am getting hooked into is machine knitting.  I bought a machine about 10 months ago, and within 6 months from that time I had a total of 4!!!  Yes 4!  The other machine bloggers are right, those puppies reproduce and quickly!!  Here's what I got::

1. Passap Pinky, or what I call the "pinkasaurus".  She was built in 1969 and from what I am told by an expert, she is in super shape.  The problem is, is that she is very cantankerous in her old age and we have a terrible time seeing eye to eye.  One of these days there's gonna be a showdown, and I am not sure which one of will survive.

2. A studio LK150, a great little single bed mid guage machine that I use alot.

3. My "Big Bro" or Brother KH260 with ribber.  We are just getting to know each other and so far it is love at first site.  We seem to be getting along swimmingly and I can forsee many great projects in our future together.

4. My newest aquisition is a Brother KH930E with a KR850. This is a standard guage machine and so far we seem to be catching on together fairly well.  I still have a bit of trouble with the electronic thingy, but in time I think I will catch on.

So here we gooooo.... a blog in progress!!!