About me… Hmm…. I know I’m thinking way to hard about this page. What would anyone want to know about me anyway? It’s not like I’m living the glamorous life here. But I suppose anyone who clicks this link at least has a passing interest in who I am, so I should probably stop the pretentious babble and get on with it, no?
I’m Stacey, a knitter and crafter in my mid-twenties. I recently moved from Las Vegas, NV to Portland, OR, and I’m still getting settled in my new state. Expect erratic crafting while my supplies are packed away. I love to knit wool sweaters and scarves, and no, they do not get used. That doesn’t take away my enjoyment one bit, so I’ll keep on with the merino cardigans. I’m also a big pattern knitter, I don’t really enjoy writing patterns for myself. Too much thought involved. I recently started crocheting again, and mainly make little amigurumi animals, which I love to crochet, but hate to sew up. I love to sew and embroider, but I’m pretty bad at the sewing part, at least on the machine. Hot glue guns are a necessary evil, and I do mean evil. I love making little softies out of felt, and if anyone has a good method for cutting little pieces of felt without cursing and mangling the felt, I’d like to know. My grandmother taught me to sew when I was about six, and handed me a pamphlet to teach myself to crochet a little bit later on. I taught myself to knit from the Stitch n Bitch books (didn’t we all?) a few summers ago and I think I’ve improved a little since that first misshapen scarf. My roommate asked if it was a baby blanket and I told her it was.
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I majored in English and someday when I get my s*** together I want to get my master’s and PhD and teach at the college level. That quarter life crisis is no joke, my friends. I love Victorian literature, the more melodramatic the better, anything by Jane Austen, historical research material, and comic books. I said it. Comic books. I also write pages and pages of crap fiction that will never see the light of day. I’ll also buy just about any knitting or craft book I see, even if I don’t like the patterns.
I’m also a vegetarian. I’d like to go vegan, but the love for wool and eggs holds me back.
Apparently I have a shoe buying problem that I was not aware of until cleaning my closet one day and heaps of shoes were literally falling on me. I have more shoes than skeins of yarn. Take that, stashers!
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“In other words, and after this I’ll shut up, made-up stories and romances about what would happen IF are for children and adult cretins who are afraid to read themselves in a book just as they might be afraid to look in the mirror when they’re sick or injured or hungover or insane.” – Jack Kerouac
