Knit Addictions

Starting over, starting again

Posted on August 27, 2010 at 7:49 pm, by knitwit
in Category Knitting

My sister-in-law, whom I love, has been encouraging me to start blogging again. “Get your stuff out there!” she says.

This however, is a daunting task for me. I wasn’t all that great at keeping up with my blog before I had a kid, now, how will I ever keep up? Now that spare time is so fleeting, and “free” time a rare commodity. When a free moment occurs, I hear the call of the knitting needles and yarn, its gravitational pull is far greater than that of the computer. Besides that, it’s been at least 2 years since I last blogged with any regularity, how can I catch up with everything that’s been going on in the last 2 years in my knitting,

BrooklynTweed's "Redhook"

with my son,

(L in his Tomten Jacket during one of his umm…inquisitive moments)

with my hubby,

(B in his icelandic version of EZ’s shirt yoke seamless sweater)

with my life?

And the thing is, I can’t catch up. It would be totally overwhelming to try. So I guess I’m just going to have to start again instead of start over. Starting over at starting again? I’ll figure it out…somehow

Me in my Swallotail Shawl by Evelyn Clark

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A New Year’s Resolution

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 4:20 pm, by knitwit
in Category Knitting

Every year I think about the New Year’s Resolutions I want to make. They are almost always in the same vein as most peoples’: lose weight, exercise, break bad habits etc…I commit to each resolution with vigor and, as I’m sure many people have experienced, by the end of January my enthusiasm is waning, by Valentine’s day the resolutions are all but forgotten.

This year, I thought I would try for one that I could perhaps realistically follow through with. It’s simple really, I’m resolving to revive this dusty old blog. At this time I am leaving some pretty broad parameters for revival: I am committing to blogging at least twice a month. Now that The Kiddo is old enough to play on his own for brief periods and he has decided that upstairs is his favorite place to play (and upstairs is where my computer resides), this goal should be an attainable one. The Hubby has found me this wonderful new theme for said blog and I feel that he thus deserves to see his wife use it from time to time.

I don’t know where this new blog may lead…I cannot promise that my posts will always be about knitting or will contain photos (which to me are the lifeblood of an interesting blog), or that this new blog won’t be continually saturated with anecdotes about my child and parenthood that will be interesting to no one but me, but it’s my blog, I can do with it what I choose! I have written blog posts so often in the last year and a half, always imagining some distant reader perusing those words and becoming inspired or at least mildly interested, enough to come back and read the next post. Now I think I will try to focus on writing for me. It’s what’s most important anyway. Should someone else decide to read this, then all the better. I hope it will be enjoyable to anyone who would devote their time to it.

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Back from the dead?

Posted on October 3, 2009 at 11:58 pm, by Dr. Jones
in Category Just Chattin'

Hi there! This is B writing….

Been working on getting E’s blog back up and running so she can use it. We moved to a new webhost and I finally got the latest version of WordPress running. Also found this great knitting theme from David Cole. The link to his site where you can download it is at the bottom. Worked on getting a lot of the kinks out of the links, pages and general format. I had used so many different plugins and “hacks” with the old versions of Wordpres that it was kind of a mess going to the new version. Think I finally got it up and running though. Hope E likes it… And I hope you do too!

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Sick

Posted on May 22, 2008 at 9:47 pm, by knitwit
in Category Baby news

The whole family is fighting colds here. First L then B and I. I hate that L is not even 3 months old and is sick, I’ve felt we’ve been so careful, never taking him anywhere and only exposing him to his grandparents and the occasional visitor. But he seems to be recovering well. He still has some congestion, but he’s doing much better, which is great because I’m sure I got run down while I was getting up every hour at night to see how he was doing. It just broke my heart to hear him trying to breathe through all that congestion.