Knitting (Super) Hero - 3KCBWDAY3

It's an understatement for me to say that I think about knitting all.the.time.  Wow, that's serious, right? But I do. I wake up thinking about knitting, and I go to sleep thinking about knitting. During the day, I think about yarn and patterns I want to knit with and about the projects that are already on my needles just waiting for me to get back to them. Yes, I do this while at work (shhhh).

In thinking about my obsession passion, I have to acknowledge that the person who started it all was my mother, Leslie.  She taught me when I was young, probably as early as grade school.  Yes, I was taught on those awful plastic needles (mine were yellow, I believe) with equally awful acrylic yarns, but it didn't much matter (back then, anyway). I found it magical, using two sticks and a strand of yarn, and turning those simple motions into a scarf. My first attempts were terrible -- uneven, dropped stitches, too short -- and there was a point when I just stopped trying. My mother kept on knitting. It wasn't that important to have her daughters knit, and our lack of interest didn't take away from her own passion.


Fast-forward to today: I rediscovered my love of knitting about 10 years ago but it was a gentle re-entry. In the last five years or so, I've turned that rekindled interest into a full-force passion. I knit, I blog, and I'm just dipping my toe into designing.  So, who's my knitting hero? It has to be my mom whose ability I've written about most recently here.

Yes, that's me and my mother

There are so many knitters and designers out there who constantly inspire me ... too many to name, really ... and Ravelry has definitely been an incredible community that I rely on, day after day. It's been fun reading who other knitters consider their heroes so if you want to get some inspiration yourself, google 3kcbwday3 and enjoy!