About Me...
I've been crocheting since winter, 1994/95. I was expecting our first
child, and so wanted her to have a handmade afghan. I bought yarn, hooks, a
book to teach myself to crochet (I had learned to chain way back in grade
3!) and an Annie's Attic leaflet for mile-a-minute baby afghans. I tried
desparately to crochet a swatch, and failed miserably. I then decided that
my attempt should have 'purpose': I have a hard time learning anything
unless there's a use for it...a swatch just seemed useless! So, I picked an
easy project from the how-to book and crocheted a coat hanger cover.
I opened the MAM leaflet, tried the 'basic' MAM pattern, and just couldn't
do it. I looked at another one, it had popcorn stitches as the centre of the
strip, and had no problem. The woman at the yarn store looked at me as if I
was nuts when I told her I couldn't do the basic, but wound up doing the
popcorn one!
Delainey wound up receiving 3 other baby afghans at a baby shower!
I crocheted all different kinds of things, doll clothes, dolls, afghans,
kitchen stuff...and just kind of 'blurred' into making up my own patterns.
Small stuff at first, squares, the handled bath scrubby...and started
branching off and making up other stuff.
On a personal note, I'm married (October, 1991) with two daughters. Both
daughters love seeing what I work on, dh *sometimes* gives the thumbs-up.
I have learned, however, not to ask his opinion on more 'girly' things, cause
he just never likes them, lol!
I am a big Harry Potter fan, would love to meet JK Rowling in person
(wouldn't a lot of us??). I would like to say a big thank you to her, for not
giving up when publishers decided her work just wouldn't sell...and for giving
us the magical world she has seen. I've read each book a few times (waiting
delivery on #6 as I write this!), and have watched the first three movies
over and over. Especially the Prisoner of Azkaban. Quite often, while
crocheting, I'll pop it in the DVD player as 'background' sound, and it does
help!
Would also love to meet Larry Gowan (last I heard he was singing with
Styx), and Stephen King, whose short stories I read and re-read. I have
read most of his novels, but some of them have a bit too much 'filler'. If
you haven't read his short stories, you should...his sense of humour really
stands out!
If you have any questions you'd like to see answered here, email me with
the question (clean ones only--unsuitable questions will be deleted with no
reply to the sender).
Someday, I just might put a picture up here...