Casting On...

Take a Red Sox fan, two needles, a skein or two of yarn, and voila--a new blog is born! Unlike its sister blog "Blogging while InSOXicated," this venture into the blogosphere is about my newfound addiction, in which I will happily indulge myself while I'm watching Red Sox games on TV.

Why knitting? A whole bunch of reasons:

1. It keeps my hands busy so I don't give into the temptation to chuck things at the TV when a Sox pitcher walks the bases loaded or a Sox batter grounds into an inning-ending double play.

2. It makes commercial breaks go by much faster.

3. My aunt is a knitter and when she came to visit me, I took her to my local knitting shop called "Needles in the Haymarket" I was intrigued by all the cool knitting action going on and before you know it, I was signing up for my first knitting class.

4. It's portable. You can do it anywhere in the house.

5. You can make really pretty stuff like sweaters, scarves, hats, shawls, shrugs, gloves, or whatever your heart desires and, what can I say, yarn fascinates me!

6. There's such a community of knitters out there, whether it be in the knit shop, on ravelry.com, or elsewhere in cyberspace. It can be either a solitary activity or a social one--whatever you're in the mood for.

So there you have it. Next blog will spin a yarn about the trials and tribulations of my first day (and night) of knitting. Now, it's time to stop talking and start stitching...

Kristin

Knitting streak at 9 days and counting.