Hello!

Well, hello world! Welcome to my first blog.  What am I doing here?  I don't really know yet.  Probably babble on about knitting, mostly.  But I've hardly met a craft involving yarn or fabric that I haven't tried.  In fact, I have so many hobbies I have to cycle through them.  Sometimes with a very long cycle - after decades I recently starting crochet and needlepoint again.  Guess my hands need a break from knitting every once and a while.
So what am I working on now? Do you mean actively working on or have unfinished somewhere in the house?  'Cause if I gave a complete list of UFO's I'd be here all night listing them...
OK - let's just stick with current projects:

• A pair of socks, almost done.  I'm allergic to wool so my socks tend to wear out too soon.  After exploring a variety of different yarns, I have found that acrylic sock yarns hold up best, despite my sincere dislike of synthetic yarns.  So now that I have too many socks with holes I'm trying to crank out some new ones.
• A poncho.  This one has a convoluted story I'll tell later.  It started as knit, now it is crochet, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up as something else before it is done.
• Tying off the ends of a crochet blanket I made for a friend.  I hear there are actually people out there that enjoy tying off ends.  I am not one of them.
• A needlepoint picture of my old dog.  I started it last fall shortly after he passed and am about half done.  It only has about 60,000 stitches and 50 or so different colors.  That's how much I miss him.  I'll have to get some pictures of it in progress.
• Curtains.  Wool, knit curtains.  Am I crazy?  Yes.  I have less money than sense, and need curtains.  Most of my fabric is still in storage and my sewing machine needs to be tuned.  But I have more yarn than places to store them, and knitting machines in working order.   So I came up with this crazy idea to machine knit wool fabric from some old, partially moth eaten yarn, that I have left over from art school.  My plan is to felt it slightly to add structure and insulation.  It would be a quick and easy project, except for that moth eaten issue.  My solution?  Tie bits of the yarn together in random sequence and wind into balls.  This takes about 10 times as long as knitting on a machine.  I had hoped to have them ready for the winter, but now here it is May and I'm no where near done.  I'm thinking of moving to Plan D.  (Yes, I have already moved through Plans A and B.)
• Other things that I have probably forgotten.  Like the Pi shawl I keep handy to work on during road trips.  Unfortunately, I can't knit and drive.  At least not safely.

At some point I will have to figure out technology well enough to add pictures, and maybe even videos.  But my technology comfort level is still with pointy sticks and string so I'll have to work on that.  Now back to those socks.