And, go!

Spring:
-(in temperate zones) the season of the year following winter and characterized by the budding of trees, growth of plants, the onset of warmer weather, etc.
-the first stage and freshest period: the spring of life.

What better time to start blogging than spring?
Longer days, more energy, new ideas . . . more knitting. Let's talk about knitting - I knit alot. In fact, I describe it as having fallen into the knitting vortex.

Vortex: something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it: the vortex of war.
Or, the vortex of knitting, in this case. I'm swirling in the knitting vortex, and it's powerful enough that it's been sucking in my whole family; my kids know they cant bug me until I'm at the end of a row, and DH writes knitting songs now - well, at least one. The powerful current has picked up too, particularly since March when I've been marathon-knitting virtually with the Malabrigo Junkies over on Ravelry.
Let's talk about Malabrigo Yarn - the softest, most beautiful, hand-dyed stuff from Uruguay. And like so many who have tried it, I'm addicted.

Junkie: a person with an insatiable craving for something: a chocolate junkie.
Which I am, a dark chocolate junkie, as well . . . but if I had to give up either dark chocolate or Malabrigo Yarn, I could find something new to eat. There's a whole group of us Junkies out there, and I'd venture to say most would give up their favorite whatever before they'd give up Malabrigo Yarn. And it's not often you find something, a product, a material, an artistic medium, that is so inspiring to so many. But lucky me, I have found it, and it's calling me into the vortex, and so I may as well blog about that.
This blog will be alot about knitting, and what I make when I'm knitting, and what happens as the vortex swirls -- and not so many definitions, next time.