I am Erin, and I am following in the snuggly and beautifully-striped knitted-sock wearing footsteps of several friends, and starting a crafting blog. I myself, however, am not a fan of socks, or the knitting thereof. I'm more of a coloured tights kinda girl.
Anyway. These pages will be dedicated primarily to my "creative life", if you will. I have a Livejournal dedicated to any whinging/ranting/girlish squealing regarding my personal life- which has been unofficially dubbed FatBlog, owing the large (ha!) amount of posts I've made recently on fat acceptance and my own adventures in weight loss land. If you feel like you can stomach my occasionally angsty outbursts, feel free to add me (but please ask first). This blog, however, will be a (relatively) angst-free zone.
As will very quickly become apparent, I am a keen knitter. To say the least. I re-learned how to knit in November 2007, courtesy of my long-suffering mother. ;) What started off as stress-relief and a cure from extreme sexual frustration (thanks to *that* episode of Grey's Anatomy, where Meredith Grey swears off men and takes up knitting), has become a passion and obession, and a raison d’etre. At the moment, I knit a ridiculous amount of berets and hand-warmers, and am developing a shawl fetish. I am also currently branching out into the wonderful world of actual clothing, and am making my first ever sweater vest. *snaps for Erin's sweater vest!*
Because I clearly do not possess a spine, I very easily rope myself into making a far too many birthday, Christmas, wedding and baby gifts. My friends tease me about the baby gifts, and claim that I must be some sort of ancient fertility god, as everyone and their podiatrist seems to get pregnant after coming within two feet of me. ;) I made it one of my 2010 resolutions to complete more selfish knitting this year...and I even have three selfish projects on the go right now! However, people just seem to keep getting married, keep having sprogs, and keep having birthdays. In the photo up top, for example, are some knitted cupcakes I made for a dear friend for her birthday last April. I see patterns, and think of people. This is, apparently, a problem.
I am a semi-regular member of the Southern Cross Knitting Circle, where I get to knit with some of my best mates, drink lots of cuppas/pints and yell at people about music and bra shopping. I am also on Ravelry, where I usually document my woolly creations (and whinge if they don't go quite to plan), and add to my ever-expanding pattern queue. Again, feel free to add me. You will see that I love anything purple, pink or turquoise, and use a lot of New Zealand-made yarns, particularly the Zealana and Touch brands. You will also see that I hate picking up stitches and weaving in ends with the fire of a thousand glow worms.
As far as other crafts go...I plan to get back into collaging (in which I have dabbled in the past), teach myself to make button necklaces (most likely via Youtube), and learn to crochet amigurumi. Also, in my crafty life, I am scribbling a play, which I may mention a couple of times on here. It's currently resembling a delicious mash-up of RENT, Before Sunrise, Prozac Nation and (of all things!) Sense and Sensibility. Messy, but fun. Oh yeah, and I do enjoy me some cooking. Therefore, will be posting food porn. ;)
In my other life, I am a mild-mannered civil servant, who fuels her yarn habit writing reports for several Government Bigwigs and scrawling all over her colleagues' work in red pen. I have me a gorgeous boyfriend, Matt, who is the ever-joyful recipient of much Erin-made knitwear. :) We are both proud music nuts. The title of this blog, for example, is a reference to a song by Neko Case, one of my many musical girl crushes. And, if you haven't figured the pun...shame on you. ;P
And...that's me! A post dedicated to my first item of clothing shall follow...
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