A Verb for Brenda

OK, I've done it. I've signed up for a class. With Brenda Dayne! I have to admit I'm VERY nervous about this.


Brenda is from Cast-On, the original it started everything for knitting and fiber knit-casts that everyone else followed. At least for me that is how it went, and to some degree, still goes. 


Anyway, it isn't the sweater class itself that makes me nervous. I am close enough to making my first sweater, for my daughter, so this part seems okay.  It is the personal side that scares me. I'm sure Brenda is a big enough girl to respect when someone has a difference of opinion, and I'm a big enough girl to know how to keep my opinions to myself when I needed.  


But this still bothers me. Should it? Both the venue, a shop in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Brenda are female friendly, very much so.  It sounds odd, but I'm hoping the fact that I have a wonderful family doesn't detract from my experience there and with the class.  Don't misunderstand. I'm anti-tradition for traditions sake, and I'm pro-woman, just not a bra burner or anything like it. 


Brenda spoke on her latest podcast about sending in "knit lady-parts" to congressmen, and I just don't lean that way.  I know many in the knitting community are following suit, but when I look at the message and at the action, to me, they just don't fit.  


I knit to connect with history and self-sufficiency and because I like it. 

New Years Resolution

Normally I don't make a resolution, and if I did they would usually sound like everyone else's. So this year let's try something a little different:

Louisa beret for me: Finished in January :)
Hermione's scarf for Bit
Dark Mark scarf for Joe
Skittles scarf for Gi

Now for the harder ones:

Bits hoodie
Gi's hoodie
Beach ombré cardigan hoodie for me
Joes socks

And the stretch goals:

Finish spinning the silk
Spin the purple mystery roving into something decent.
Attend one class this year
Catalog what I have in Ravelry