Here it is, my first blog. In just a few days I'll be celebrating my first wedding anniversary and I am 58 years old. Goodness. It has been quite an adjustment after being independent for around 35 years. I am now on the family farm, 250 acres, with cows and my sheep. My dogs love the place with all the work they have, and I am trying to make the house my own. My husband's family has owned the place for 100 years, so I have to try hard to make some part of it my own. Of course it is my fiber room, even though the computer is in there also.
In keeping with all of the newness, I spent my Christmas break learning some new knitting techniques. I have been a knitter off and on since I was eight. My Polish neighborhood required girls to learn to knit, and so I did. I wasn't until a few years ago that I began to work on projects in earnest and to explore the world of new yarns, patterns and needles. Now my basket overflows with projects, even though it is after Christmas and I finished all the gloves, toys, and sweaters for the newly acquired grandkids.
I work as a tutor in a private Episcopalian school, so I often have time to knit a bit between students. One of my kids is working on a scarf with gauntlets that she saw in a magazine, and I drafted a pattern for her. I am also learning the value of gauntlets and fingerless gloves in my cold office, and made up several styles to wear to school. Now my students want them - I think I'll teach them to knit.
I will wear my silk and beaded smoke ring to dinner with my darling farmer husband this week. Believe it or not, we met on match.com. I've yet to knit him anything, but I think that socks might be a good start.
Ewemaniac
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