Don't quite know where to start, I've knitted for years, self taught, began lace knitting about five years ago and became obsessed. I blazed through both books by Marianne Kinzel, knitted some beautiful things, in silks, in wools, in linen, gave them away. I was finding wonderful informative knitting blogs with pictures of gorgeous projects finished, learning tons, finding patterns for beautiful shawls, tablecloths and doilies all over the internet, and had just discovered Heirloom Knitting, Sharon Miller's beautiful site, began ordering patterns, yarn and planning projects. Then I unexpectantly got a dog. One dog. A puppy. A Siberian Husky mix, he was very active. So I put the lace knitting aside until he grew up. Instead I got another puppy to keep him company, another active Siberian. Then I got into dog rescue, and now I have five dogs at home, four males, one female, the oldest is 4 years, the youngest is 1-1/2 years old, they're all pictured below, I have no idea yet how to move the photos or caption so will just leave it as is. Anyway, I'm finally comfortable enough, almost four years later, with their behavior to try lace knitting again. I dug out all my patterns, decided to start out with plain old cotton thread, size 10, size 3 needles and the pattern for the Tina shawl, to become a tablecloth this time, to see how long it would take me to get back into knitting lace and to see just how well the dogs were going to behave. They're curious, just what is taking up so much of my concentration, but so far being good, the worst thing that any of them have done is Caelen finding the pair of readers I bought in a higher magnification for the small thread and needles, chewing the plastic ends off the ear pieces and then proudly dropping them in my lap.
So I'll quit meandering on. I've been so inspired by some really fantastic knitting blogs, I can't hope to compare, but
here I am, we'll see how this goes.
