Just saw the thread !!
How I would love to divert my energies and change focus for a bit, especially now that the temps are single digit....
Certainly no shortage of accumulated wool, mohair and angora yarn.....
But I’ve been “fighting” what will probably be the biggest legal battle of my life, these last 8-9 months, and I’m just getting started.
Actually, I see it more as my biggest opportunity to bring a great many “lost” concepts of American jurisprudence to a largely (but not entirely !!) hostile group of “students”.
Ha !!
Anyhoo, it was all of four years AFTER my Best Friend Ever passed that I was afforded opportunity to knit, in her memory and with her in close spirit.
Should have
tried to learn when I was about 14.....looking back....but thrift store shopping was a real treat, with her, looking for those unique, bulky, often vintage and/or foreign knits she so loved.
She could doll up for a winter walk, or ice skating, or just a fun day around the winter time cabin, and render me shy little boy mush.
Couldn’t begin to tell you why or where that shy fascination started, with me, but it goes back as long as I can remember.
My first knitting project, true to passion, was a three strand on 10-1/2 needles scarf....in cream and melon tones. (It’s what was available, spur of the moment and all.)
And bulky/oversized has been my focus, since.
I was actually noticed, 2011-ish, by a group of photographers and then by their supporting models and makeup circles.
What an unexpected turn of events that was.....5-6 years after my Kaygirl passed.
Made some great friends and got to see a short stint (which was plenty) of spotlight for a bit.....
Here is some of my work, from back then;
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