Mommaoften is in town, trying to help me get organized. Let's all wish her the amount of luck she's going to need to get that task accomplished!

Vyvyan Neel, commando orignale, stopped by after a two month hiatus, with some beautiful projects in tow. Some are going to be featured on her website, some will be entered for publication, all were fun, funky, and "outside the box" designs which she alone could come up with. It was wonderful to see her again, and I am looking forward to knitting some of those designs! She is brilliant. That is all.

I am currently spinning up some black Alpaca roving I purchased at Fiberfest 2008 from Ozark Mountain Alpacas , a local Alpaca farm in Fayeteville, Arkansas. If everything goes as planned, they will be knitted into Ladylike Mesh Gloves by Eunny Jang, for my daughter's graduation. I'll be adding pictures to this post, of the yarn, not the gloves. As I get started on those, I will post some pics... stop laughing, it might actually happen...

I finally saw Twilight, Dani and Jen's current, ahem, favorite movie. It was a pretty good flick, but I won't be joining the fan club anytime soon. Although, ala another commando... "I like his daddy!"

David is showing off with his Navajo plying, and doing a lovely job, btw. He is teaching the two socks on two circulars class for me, and is trying to master the two socks on DPN technique featured in the current Piecework... I will get to trying it, although I'm thinking the only way I could keep them straight is to knit two different colors as shown in the instructions, requiring me to either wear mismatched socks, or make two pair, one of each at a time. We'll see.

Finally!

Introduction of self, I am Elizabeth and I run KnitWicks, a knitting and spinning shop in Rogers, Arkansas. I am thirty and something, have a passel of red-headed chitlins, and love to knit. I also crochet, spin, quilt, sew, crosstitch and embroider things. Soon I will be weaving and dyeing fibers, and will post on those travails...

The shop has been up and running a little over a year, now, and I have come to some basic conclusions about a few things...

• I am not a business type, so much as a knitting type. Not really a problem, unless you happen to be in charge of running a business. Which I am. That is not to say that I don't enjoy what I do, cause, seriously, it is teh awesome. It is just that the nuts and bolts of actually making money that is so very important in a business just kind of, um, bores me to tears. It also cuts WAAAAY down on the knitting time. I am working on this.

• I like people. This should not have come as a major surprise, but as a former waitress, disliking people became kind of a hobby. Turns out, I enjoy helping people with their knitting. I like getting projects together for people, I like making sure people are enjoying their knitting or crochet projects.

• Knitters are kind of insane. Maybe that's what I like about them. I can relate so well.

• If all I did was knit, I could never get through my Ravelry cue. Ever.

• I am not that great a knitter. Seriously. I have ladies that have been knitting for 50- 60 years come in and ask me questions, and their work is PERFECT. It is humbling. Maybe one day I'll be there, but I doubt it. I understand knitting pretty well. I can read a pattern, and configure the WHY of it, even when long time knitters get confoozled, but my actual knitting leaves something to be desired.

• I won't be able to knit a grand lace project until I am no longer in charge of day to day running of the shop, and my kids leave my nest. I am thinking 10-15 years, at least.

• Acrylic isn't evil, it has it's uses. No, really.

I will be posting reviews, comments, advice and *hopefully* instructional videos. I am a neophyte blogger, but David Howard, a friend and fellow commando has offered to help... Thanks David!