double you tea eff.

Don't get me wrong, I love knitting fellowship. A lot. Possible more than is healthy. I am an awesomeknitter, for goodness' sake. The Yarnettes group has never dissapointed me with insightful conversation or good company. However, today was a slight dissapointment. If any of you are reading this, I love you all, and thank you for accepting me into your group. I appreciate all of your wisdom and humor.

But I do not enjoyed being called "little girl." At all. So please, avoid that phrase.

Honestly. I wouldn't even mind being called "girl." (Though, admittedly, that is slightly harsh.) But last time I checked I am not "little." I may be short, but that is something that cannot be helped. According to my doctor, I have stopped growing. I am not six. I am sixteen, and while that is younger than most people who are assosciated with knitting, that does not make me any less of a citizen than you. It doesn't give you permission to talk to me like I am a lesser being. I may be slightly more naive, and have more years to live in front of me, but I am a human as well, I am over the age of ten, and I am not "little."

Please, never ever call me "little girl" again.

kthxbai.

yarnettes ftw.

Today was the meeting for the knitting group I go to when there's no school. And, as it's summer, there's no school, so I got to go. There were a lot of people there today, a pretty big crowd, and it was so fun. I don't talk much, just because it's so interesting to sit and listen to what everyone else has to say. They talk about everything - how to smuggle needles passed the TSA, yarn (of course), and basically anything you can think of. And, honestly, it totally jam packed my brain with knitting. Later, when I was talking to my mom I kept substituting words like "librarian" with "knitter."

I love knitting.

<3jenny

fiveawesomeknitters!

It's been a while since I've blogged, but as it's summer, I thought I'd try to get back into this kind of thing. I also have a lot of time to knit (and thus a lot of things to talk about) and also started an exciting project this week.

My latest project is a baby hat for my good friend Christina, who's due in August. I'm using the Cozy Cuddles pattern by Ruth Maddock from Issue 37 of Simply Knitting Magazine, and it's very well written and easy to follow. They color code the different sizes, which prevents stitch confusion. It's really fun to knit, and it's turning out really nicely. My stitches are pretty even so far, and adding the earflaps was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I'm excited to finish it, because then I can start Rosemary Wait's Harry Potter Hufflepuff House Bag (which will be awesome!) I have to have that finished by (hopefully) the second week of July, so I'm trying to be quick but efficient.

AND, the exciting project that I've started is called fiveawesomeknitters. It's a video blog project along the vein of Brotherhood 2.0 and fiveawesomegirls. For those of you who are completely lost, the idea is that there are five of us, and we are each assigned a day of the week. On our day (I am Monday, for example) we make a video blog in which we talk about knitting, our lives, etc., and get to know each other. Then, we post it to YouTube. This week is the first week, and so far it's been incredible!! I couldn't ask to be in a collab channel with better people - they are all so clever and talented and awesome. Sometimes I feel slightly inadequate in the midst of their awesome!! So basically, KNITTING kNERDFIGHTERS FTW!!!