Echo...Echo...

OK, yes, I *know. I've been naughty. No blog posts for months and months. Yet another blogger gone bad. Perhaps it's guilt (still haven't finished the Afghan from Hell, which I frogged and started anew). Perhaps it's that I've just been busy actually knitting and crocheting (yeah, that's the ticket!). Perhaps it's that left-handed needlecrafts observations are few and far between. Perhaps it's just that I haven't developed a following and no one cares whether I post or not!

Let's see? What nugget of wisdom can I pass on to get the ball rolling? How can I move into the big picture side of my whole "right brain" concept? OK, here goes...let's try this:

I recently got a Palm Centro. I haven't had a Palm in a while, but I was excited to find that the program Handy Shopper is still available. Handy Shopper is more than just a shopping list. It's a flexible database that allows you to assign a "Store" and a category to each list item. But, hold onto your (knit) hats...a "Store" can be ANYTHING YOU WANT IT TO BE-- from rooms in your house (for cleaning or decorating projects) to people (for gift-giving or family trip-packing) to :::insert drum roll here::: NEEDLE SIZES.


Yes, Virginia, there is a cure for the disorganized needler who likes to buy projects on the spur of the moment and now has a half dozen size H crochet hooks just because she can't ever remember if she already has one!

I Know, I Know

I swore I'd post often, and well...such is life. I can happily report that I have completed quite a few projects since last posting. I'll take a few photos and get them up. My knitting has improved, though still slow. I am currently working on quite a few child-sized afghans, trying to plow through my stash of cheap acrylic and move it on out. I've also started a wedding afghan for my sister (made with Encore wool/acrylic, which is, so far, an excellent yarn to work with--which is good, since this has been dubbed The Afghan from Hell).

Transporting is Cool

An administrative note:

I decided to transfer the entries on my little-used LiveJournal blog over here. So, this marks the first "real" entry in this new--hopefully oft-used--blog. So, Beam Me Up, Scotty--I'm here now!

I've been busy this winter improving my knitting skills and using up a voluminous, yet el cheapo, stash, mostly on my children (like the crocheted stuffed animal backpacks that their "pets" needed in order to go to school). I just requested to join the NEIS Ripple-Along, so, hopefully, that will take care of the rest of my boxes. Then I can start guiltlessly indulging in the products featured by my local non-big-box yarn shop. Goodbye Red Heart! I loved you!

Starting Somewhere

Well, you have to, don't you? I've been wondering about the craze of journaling, so I decided that I'd give it a try. I recently started knitting again, and, as a left-handed person, I thought that a journal of my left-handed attempts at various needlecrafts might be an interesting foray. I know that, in the past, it's been an adventure of sorts. Well, at least keeping the yarn away from the cats has been a challenge.

I've been crocheting since 1996 or so. I crochet left-handed. Since my main products tend to be blankets and potholders, this has only ever one caused a problem (a pair of slippers for my son, where I had to reverse the instructions, after swearing like a Sailor didn't fix the mess that had formed). That said, when I taught myself how to knit many moons ago, I learned right-handed. It works for me, and it's a little less confusing. I recently got back into knitting (after a 16-year hiatus), and picked up Sally Melville's The Knit Stitch. So, while I'm still knitting right-handed, I'm exploring various ways of carrying the yarn.
And, for the rest of the run-down:

Cross-stitch/Crewel: Left-handed
Tatting: Left-handed
Let the games begin. :)