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••• Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Things That Keep me Up at Night
Last year, in the spring I believe, I bought Lily Chin's The Urban Knitter (It was only after I brought it home that I realized I fell out of the recommended age demographs. They really aughta put a grandparental advisory warning on the front).

From this book I found out about Yahoo's KnitList, and promptly joined up. From the KnitList I found out about Chicknits. At Chicknits I clicked on a blog link. This particular blogger was a brand new knitter, posting pictures of her obviously brand new knitting for all the world to see. I was impressed by her bravery, if not her knitting skills.

Her blog offered links to other knit blogs (of course) and I promptly sat myself down to a linkin' park blogfest (where you park your butt for the purpose of clicking blog links for hours). I was immediately hooked. In June, I opened this sty.

In the beginning, I was publishitty-shy. I thought most of my posts were stupid, or boring, or obscure or down right crap*y. When I did come up with something I considered worthy, I would then worry "What if it's all I got?"

Eventually a few peeps trickled in through the Knitblog network. Amy was one of my first "regular" customers and also a Newbie. Through those first few weeks (and now) I could always count on finding her familiar http in my comment peanut gallery. Her daily presence and encouragement was, many days, my only source of confidence to keep going.

So, how is this keeping me up at night? Well, this week, Sweet Amy sent me a package. In it was an adorable (or "nuhdorable", as we say around here) piglet calendar, a package of Life Savers and two Skeins of Lions Brand Fun Fur. I just find this an amazing thing and last night I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Last spring I bought a knitting book. Because I bought that knitting book, last week Amy (in California) had a sweet thought about me and sent me a gift package (Addressed in cool, artsy handprinting, no less. Of course, I'm not surprised.)

I'm not even sure this is making any sense. But on I plod.

Buying that knitting book also brought to me the opportunity to observe, enjoy and participate in the collection of diverse worlds and genuine affection found among and between the incredibly witty, intelligent, creative, and generous human bein's who make up the knitblog ring. Weird thing: I don't even like the book.

As The Cakers utters, drop-jawed, at the sight of the garage door opening by remote...."Ah-may-zing..!"

I've no computer access again at home, for most of this week, so I'm stealth posting this, piecemeal. I haven't had opportunity to respond to all the funny and supportive comments individually, but I've been sneaking peeks. Thanks all! I hope to resume somewhat normal activities next week
# posted by Marcia @ 7:44 AM


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