Wednesday, March 31, 2004
100 Things...Give or Take
In a blatant attempt to help all of you out there get to know me...well, there's actually only one other person reading this at this point in time...anyway, in a blatant attempt to help all of you get to know me in the FUTURE...I present a frequently updated list of things that you might like to know about me.
Twenty Odd Things you should know about me…
1. I’m currently 24 years old.
2. I’ve been knitting since October of 2003
3. Quilting since August of 2000
4. I’ve cross-stitched since I was a kid, but have actually only finished one project.
5. I have one aunt who knits, 2 aunts who quilt, and a mother who does crewel work.
6. Right now I’m a temp for hire, currently working at an accounting agency through tax season. It’s more fun than I thought…good senses of humor around my cubicle.
7. For the past six months, I was in the employ of the Lutheran Volunteer Corps. and worked in an assisted living facility for AIDS patients. The LVC stresses community and simplified living which just didn’t exist in the house I lived in…so I left.
8. I have completed one year of seminary in Pittsburgh, PA and will start my second in August in Chicago, IL.
9. I’m from Pittsburgh, PA.
10. I didn’t like Pittsburgh Seminary because there was a lack of free exchange of ideas. I felt stifled that I couldn’t share my opinions without ridicule.
11. I’m a liberal, democrat, social-justice Christian.
12. I believe in God’s grace, freely given to us as a gift…don’t get me theologizing!
13. I’ve been dating the same man, Justin, for 5 ½ years. No, no engagement plans in the near future. I put him way down here on the list because, while he’s number 2 on my speed dial, I’m like number 25 on his. He says it’s because I got my cell phone so much later than his, but I don’t believe him. This is my subtle attempt at retribution.
14. I hate the fact that I love my cell phone. I hate that people expect that just because I have one means that you can reach me anywhere, anytime.
15. Current reads: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson, a travelogue about Britain.
16. Current listenings: Wild Colonials, Fruit of Life
17. Current DVD’s from Netflix (this will change too quickly to keep up with very well): Whale Rider (4 *’s!!!), About a Boy (4*’s!!!), Lost in Translation (3*’s because Scarlet Johannson’s character knits, but I didn’t really like it despite all the hype) and the West Wing Season 1...mmm...the West Wing.
18. Current number of Active knitting WIP’s: 3
Current number of Inactive WIP’s (stuff that’s been put on stitch-holders to free up needles for other projects): 1
19. Current number of Quilting UFO’s: 6, only 2 of them are in real progress. I wonder if the reason for this is that quilting just takes SO MUCH LONGER…as in MONTHS (and years) longer than any knitting project I’ve tackled.
20. I have two dogs named Snowy and Dreyfus. They’re Bichons I’m proud to declare myself a dog person. I love not having to beg for the unconditional love.
21. I have one nephew, Sammy who will be 2 in July.
22. His mother, my sister-in-law Geana, is expecting QUADRUPLETS sometime late in the summer. Oy vay! Lots of projects coming up for them. :-D
23. My middle name is Ann. When I was in high school I was friends with two other girls named Melissa…both of them had Ann as their middle names.
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
And so it begins...
This is my first day of blogging. We'll see how far I can take this. I have a tendency, as I think all fiber fiends do, to start something and never finish it. But I'll try if you try to hang in there with me.
Let me tell you a bit a bit about myself. First and foremost, I refuse to confine myself to one fiber related craft. No one thing defines me. :-) I'm a knitter, I'm a quilter, I'm the occasional cross-stitcher. I play my music in the suuuuuuun. Here are some rare pictures of completed projects in their natural habitat. They are an endangered species, these FO's.
The scarf is made of Fee for my Aunt Wendy for Christmas. I thought knitting her a scarf would be a cheap alternative to buying something for her (rookie mistake). And I was living on a $100 a month stipend at the time, I was looking for the cheap alternatives. Her comment, "I want you to be poor EVERY Christmas!" :`-) Gotta wipe away the tears for that one.
Both of these are pictures of my nephew, Sammy. He's the intended recipient of a vast majority of WIP's and UFO's, as well as these two finished projects. The quilt was for his birth...and was given to him a mere 6 weeks late at his baptism. It's machine pieced and hand quilted from fabrics collected from the internet and from time in England/Scotland. The hat was for this Christmas and was given to him...as close to Christmas as I could see him. He'll grow into it, but I swear that the picture in the pattern looks that big on the baby too. " 'Issa, 'at! 'Issa 'at!" was the refrain of the day. A loose translation is, "Look at this absolutely GORGEOUS hat my Aunt Melissa knitted for me after a mere 3 months of learning!"
That was a brief history of projects. I'll save the brief history of me for another day.
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