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Editor's note: Confessions of a knitting adict
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Posted by LisaW Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:45:17 PST
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0 responses 0 comments Just this week I spent $28 on a single skein of yarn. It was the most delicious silk and I made some knitted wrist warmers with it.

I love them and they are perfect for my job, which requires free fingers for typing, but which takes place in a sometimes drafty, 100-year-old building.

I love the way yarn feels — the different textures and levels of softness — and I love the colors.

My favorite needles are a pair of size eight straights made out of rosewood. All together, I probably own around 20 or 30 pairs of needles.

At home, I have an ottoman that opens and is dedicated to my yarn stash, which has gotten a little low after my holiday projects, but still contains around 15 balls of yarn.

I even have a knitting blog. Feel free to check it out at: http://yarn-girl-lisa.blogs...

My name is Lisa Wuertz ... and, yes, I am a knitting addict.

The local knitting community has grown quite a bit since my love affair with fiber arts began. Back then, my only choices for yarn suppliers were some of the larger chain stores in town. Now, Bakersfield boasts three locally-owned specialty yarn shops.

Certain co-workers thought it wasn’t quite right that I should get paid for reporting and writing my cover story this week. I think it didn’t help when I came back from one of my interviews with some newly purchased yarn in my clutches.

I was inspired by one of the people I interviewed, Paige Kanady, who was challenging herself to move beyond the basics and use double-pointed needles to make cabled wrist warmers. I decided to do the project she was working on and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.

Those same co-workers who good-naturedly kidded me for my knitting addiction have now put in orders for their own wrist warmers.

I hope you, too, are inspired to learn to knit or pick up a new hobby.

For those of you who are already knitters, enjoy my purse pattern to give as a gift or keep for yourself.

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