Hi,
To tell you a little about myself...

I'm a divorced mom of a 15 yr old daughter. She is great! I am an application developer at a large company (Abbott Laboratories) based in North Chicago, Illinois. I have been working on my Masters degree (MISM) through Keller School of Management since January 2005 and am currently in my LAST class. The class ends Dec 21st - my x-mas present to myself. :-)

My knitting experience:
Let’s see... Many years ago when I was little, my grandmother taught me the basics of knitting, crocheting, and needle point on plastic canvas. Then for many years I didn't do any of it. Once my divorce was done and I was out on my own, I taught myself how to knit and crochet again. It helped me get through the shock of not winning custody of my daughter. I was the one to pay support and get visitation, but at least it was still joint custody. Anyways... the knitting and crocheting was helping me to get through the quiet lonely nights and to help me calm my nerves. I have been knitting and crocheting ever since. It has been 8 1/2 years since I started back up with my "crafty" skills.

Last year I started a little group at work to meet at lunchtime to knit (I taught several of them). I created a pattern for a "sampler" block afghan. I thought the blocks would be small enough to not seem like such a large project to the new knitters. The blocks are only 4 separate styles/patterns. One was just garter so they got practice doing the casting on, the knit stitch, and then the binding off. The next one was the stocking knit to introduce the purl stitch. The third was the Moss stitch to show simple variation of the knit and purl stitches. The fourth is the seed stitch. We choose 3 different colors and decided to do each block in each of the colors for an afghan of 12 blocks. The afghans are still in process. I did add a different block for mine because I wanted to try something new. It is made of the popcorn - I think - stitch.

Wow, didn't realize I was going to talk to much. I guess I should start my blog and put more in there. hehe But it might be done in spurts due not having much spare time because of my homework/class project.

See you around...

~Becky