So... This is defiantly my first time blogging but I've had my own website for a while now that I have been able to keep up and running, so I'm thinking that this is not a far-fetched goal to now dedicate myself to my knitting on the web as much as I have dedicated to my personal life (keeping my family informed of what I'm up to at the moment).
I've been knitting since I was 14 actively (of course you learn it when you're younger). I am an incredibly addicted sock knitter. I love to knit these socks and even for the impossibly large feet of my boyfriend - my father has smaller feet than he does. I love socks but occasionally I will crochet or knit a scarf/ wrap and I'll get around to making a sweater maybe every other year (really not liking the sweater knitting but have discovered lots of nice fashion tops).
To start this out, the title was decided on, because I actually am a European knitter. I lived in the U.S. for a while as well as a child but most of it I have spent in Europe and this is also where I got into the "final stages" of becoming a knitter with a K. I find it had to associate my knitting with a lot of the American knitting, because the yarns are not as organized as in the U.S. (i.e. The Loopy Ewe) but instead I spend a lot of my time looking for new Yarn Stores - although I have recently discovered that no matter what city I am in, I always have an LYS where I know the people! - Because you will always find the usual Regia but I'm looking to try new things as well.
Current knitting projects are actually two and I am going to leave the first one. The first one I have decided to call "the ugliest sock in the world". That is exactly what it is. The yarn was a gift for my birthday from my best friend Dieter and my boyfriend. I have two balls of the green and two of a bright multicolored. They're both self stripping and the composition of it is great. I just really, really hate the bright multi-colored one, because even though the color way is called "Mexican Color", I was not expecting the color scheme of a Tex-Mex restaurant on a sock. Enough said there, now I am moving on the green ball and looking forward to get something nice out of it, because the other one was so ugly yet the base yarn is really nice - pictures to follow!
That's all for now, so I'll check in next week again! Pictures to follow soon!
