I started knitting in earnest when my elder son was almost a year old.  I was in the process of switching him to cloth diapers, and I’d heard that wool soakers were really great to use as diaper covers.  Unfortunately, I’m cheap, and soakers are expensive.  So I relearned how to knit from a book (thankfully my Mom taught me when I was about 8), found some free patterns online, and got started.  Turns out I loved knitting.

A year or so later I discovered I was pregnant, and for whatever reason I became convinced it was a girl.  So I knit a soaker, picked up stitches, and added a skirt.  I did it that way a few times, and one day thought, why not add stitches all the way around using yarnovers?  So I did, and my first pattern (which is actually a technique), was born. 

Since then, I’ve knit a variety of things out of my head, taking notes as I go.  When I’m happy with the FO, I’m also happy to share the pattern.  If I happen upon someone else’s pattern or instructions, I’ll also share links to those (or my own notes on them, with credit given where credit is due). 

Navigating is simple – if you glance over to the left, the top of the column is a list of my own designs, or, in the case of Short Rows Paraphrased,  my notes on one of the most useful knitting-related things I’ve found online ever.  Beneath that, you’ll see my Recent Posts, and then the galleries of projects.  You’ll also see my braggy stuff, the flickr badge and ravelry project status bar, and at the very bottom archives and a spot to search for something I may have blathered on about before. 

And there you have it, My Knitting Corner.