I’ve been knitting forever. I love color work.
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Hi all! I’m Malika, I’m 25, and I live in Arlington, VA. I’ve been reading the Lounge discussions for a while but have never posted, so here goes!
I started knitting ugly scarves when I was seven, dropped it like a hot potato until I learned to crochet (and re-taught myself to knit) in high school (I made a loooot of blankets), and haven’t stopped since. 
My favorite colors are purple and teal, my favorite book is Pride & Prejudice (it may be my favorite movie, too), and my favorite food is pie.
I won’t be banging out a Hadley this February because I’m just a neckband and part of a sleeve away from being done with a guernsey sweater I’m knitting for my father, and promised to finish it for Christmas 2 years ago!
Happy knitting, y’all!
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I can’t remember if I introduced myself already, although I’ve been hanging out in the lounge on occasion for a while. I’m Jennifer and I am still debating banging out a hadley. I have other things I need to work on but the idea of having a new sweater by the end of the month is extremely appealing. It worked with stopover, could it happen again?
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Hi - my name is Carla - ( bloglesscarla on Rav) I work full time at a local library and knit every other minute I can!
I have no clue what my first knit was- sorry
I adore blues
Ice cream is my favorite food.
I love to learn new techniques - however love the comfort of a plain sock!
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Good morning to all. I was a knitter in spurts, off and on – but then I became a grandmother and now there is no stopping me. My kids all live in the southern USA states but I have plenty of relatives who live “up north”.
I grew up on a apple orchard in Wisconsin, so I love apples and really all fruit. Bees do not frighten me, my grandfather was a beekeeper.
I can’t wait to bang out this Hadley. This month is usually the slowest for me . . . . . I will not hibernate or be a couch slouch but will take my knitting everywhere!
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Hi,
Latifa here – Rav name is Janetlatifa. I learned to knit in high school – taught myself somehow. I am now collecting social security so I have been knitting a looong time.
I love to knit lace and shawls, get bored easily so don’t like knitting rectangles or blankets! I do love a good wash cloth though.
One of my first projects that I remember was golf club covers for my HS boyfriend. I am sure they were pretty ugly!
I am a Ravelry addict!
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Hi! I am Kelly Currie from Delphi Indiana. I’m a librarian, so in addition to knitting I spend a lot of time reading. And I love yoga. I have knit several sweaters but don’t always like how they fit me and am not experienced (or brave!) enough to modify a pattern. So I plunge in and hope for the best. Love the Hadley pattern and looking forward to starting the KAL today!
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I remember sit-upons. And hobo dinners. We would bring them to the beach on Long Island’s north shore. Lots of rocks and the sit-upons helped. Mom always tossed the hobo dinners on the grill.
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Hello! The first thing I knitted was a green scarf with wobbly garter edges, more than fifty years ago? Since I retired five years ago, knitting has become an even greater passion, and led me to join several groups. Now I knit in groups and go to knitting retreatsmuch more frequently than during my working days.
Oh, I do like pie, but only those I make myself, including from scratch dough.
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Hi, my name is Cheryl and I am typing to you from Sudbury,Suffolk, England. I’m 54 and learnt to knit when I was a child so have no idea what the first thing I knit was but I’m going to guess it was a scarf. What strikes me now when i look back is how fearless I was then compared to now. I knit both intarsia and fair isle style and thought nothing of it though I’ve never done proper ‘fairisle’. I had no idea about swatching so would check my gauge after 6 ins of knitting and actually when I look back to those heady teenage years things went better then than they do now. Perhaps that’s because my job (i’m what those in the U.S would call an episcopalian priest) takes up so much time and energy.
My favourite food is chocolate though I’m just getting my head round the Low FODMAP diet so that might have to change. I have 2 favourite movies ‘A matter of life and death’ 1946 Powell and Pressberger and ‘Festen’ which if I remember rightly is danish. I want to share the excitement of having paid an enormous sum to see ‘Hamilton’ here in the U.K in just over a year’s time. My favourite shoes are whatever is comfortable and my favourite colours are blue and orange. I already had some Shelter in the faded quilt colourway so I’m suing that as the basis for my Hadley sweater though I haven’t even managed to swatch yet.
What I would most like to learn- in knitting it is joining things at the yoke so this sweater should help. The first and only time I tried it the three tubes looked so far apart, evne though I’d joined them. I looked up in every knitting book and on the web wherever I could and couldn’t find advice so concluded I was stupid and missing something or maybe it’s one of those embarrassing things no one ever talks about like ‘what do you do about your faclal hair?’
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My name is Elizabeth, and apparently the right bribe will get me.
The first thing I knit was slippers for my grandmothers.
My favorite book (I’m a rebel!) is The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver.
And I would like to learn to draw.
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Hey y’all. My name is Mary Sue. I tried to start knitting when I was 9 in Camp Fire but that failed so I don’t really count that. Fast forward in 1982 my secretary was a knitter so I asked her to teach me and made a really bad scarf for my first finished object.
My favorite shoes are any that don’t hurt my feet. Clark’s especially those sold in the English stores seem to work best.
I want to learn to rug hook. I’ve done just about every other kind of textile handwork: crochet, crewel, needlepoint, (tried tatting my knots are lovely but they don’t slide well) weaving and spinning. As Ann would say, I like to cross craft.
I’m not sure why I waited to log into the Lounge but I love reading it. Glad for Mason Dixon and all both Ann and Kay bring to us all.
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Hi, I’m Susan and I live in the Finger Lakes region of New York state.
I learned to knit from my grandmother when I was about 7. I can’t remember the first thing I knit, but it might have been a dishrag since that seems to have been her specialty.
My favorite color is the mauve-blue that I can never remember the name of - it’s the color of chicory flower petals. My favorite “food” is coffee, for sure.
I would like to learn how to grow orchids, cook Indian food and play golf.
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Hi My name is Karen. I “taught” myself to knit in the late 60’s using the book Knitting and Crocheting for Beginners by Mary Maxim. The book cost 75 cents! I of course when straight for the top and picked the sweater pattern. I chose yellow and orange stripes. My tension was good but for whatever reasons the armholes were bigger than the sleeves and the stripes were not as I had imagined them. Put knitting down until 2001 when I saw The Knitter’s Stash edited by Barbara Albright in a bookstore in my daughter’s college town. I feel in love with the potential for beautiful things one could make as shown in this beautiful book. Decided to take a class at my LYS and well the rest is history…
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I am Caty…MissCaty on Ravelry.
My favorite movie is…out of many…“Enchanted April.” Love seeing what other people are doing.
I would love to learn to maintain my equanimity no matter what is happening around me…oh…and brioche knitting.
The first thing I knit (at seven) was supposed to be a four needle mitten. It ended up being a bizarre Barbie formal. Ten years later, I knit a sweater and have not stopped since!
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Hi! I’m Vera. I used to knit decades ago and am re-learning these days…mostly knitting socks (pretty fast gratification and all that). The first thing I ever knit is most likely a scarf (uneven of course). I have knit sweaters in the past when my son was a toddler…I seem to have difficulty completing any adult-sized sweater but am hoping to change that this year.
Favorite movies would be Out of Africa and Babette’s Feast.
As far as learning goes, on the knitting side - EVERYTHING!! Otherwise, Archery (one of my Christmas presents was a bow).
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Hi Lounge,
My name is Mary and I have been knitting since i was given a spool knitter as a child. Red, with four nails on the top. Which generates a long tube that it is hard to find uses for. Then maybe blankets for stuffed animals? I started knitting in earnest in my late twenties, and can stop whenever I want. (Maybe?) I hope I never have to. My most famous knitting was when I figured out a Japanese pattern for a vest and knit it. I still meet knitters in RI who remember that. Mostly know I knit with lighter weight yarns to make scarves and socks. Heavy yarn hurts my hands.
Knitting is the most visible way to show the time I have lived, and I love having an object at the end of a meeting or TV show instead of nothing. It also helps me sit still and adds tons of patience to my repertoire. Maybe there is a touch of ADDH here?
An architect in the daytime, in my spare time I oil paint when I can, knit when I can’t paint, and listen to mostly fantasy books on tape when I am driving. When i retire, I want to add more gardening to the list. And I like to travel when I can, especially when I can bring paints along.
Thank you all for all that you have done to make knitting more accessible and more enjoyable!
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Hi. I’m Cathy in Big Rapids, Michigan. and I have a great “When I Learned to Knit” story.
My college roommate Leslie taught me as we were costuming one of Shakespeare’s Henry plays and needed chain mail, a lot of chain mail. The real thing was too heavy and too expensive, so the costumer decided we could knit it out of cord on size 15s and spray paint it silver. So, for most of the semester we carried our knitting to class and everywhere else. I remember our fingers were quite sore, but the effect on stage was quite realistic.
I work part time in a bookstore (I am a retired English teacher) and have way too many favorite books. My current fav is “Girl Waits with Gun” by Amy Stewart.
My knitting goal for this year is to conquer Fair Isle and I have way too many projects favorited in my Ravelry account.
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Hi! My name is Maureen! I work in IT for an insurance company.
The first thing I every knitted was a scarf for my father, but it was a mess and my mother frogged it - don’t want to waste 25 cents worth of Woolworth yarn!!!
I spend my days in corduroys, cardigans, and hush puppies.
I’m newish to colorwork. The Fringe hat-a-longs got me started with that, and now I’m loving it. Longing to get home and get started on my Hadley! I would like to try Brioche soon, too!
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Hi, My name is Tracy and I have been knitting for close to two years. I had planned to participate in the Hadley KAL, just as I had planned to do the Stopover KAL last year. Life seems to get in the way every time I plan to participate in a KAL. 
Last week, three weeks into Spring semester, I decide to take another grad school class. What could be better than the History of Modern Art Design? The philosophy of John Ruskin…perfection is highly overrated. I should have read it a week earlier, before I decided to tink a Botanical Vines sleeve for my daughter-in-law. It really was a good sleeve! Anyway, I digress. It just gives you a picture of my OCD perfection life. Studying John Ruskin will be “perfect” for me. Now to prioritize the three weeks of reading that I am behind on before knitting.
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