Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Volkstricken. I have a few reservations about this, my first knitblog, which I will share with you now for lack of a better introduction:
- I have been less inclined to give myself creative user names in the past few years, greatly preferring to use variations of my actual name instead. This leaves a person significantly fewer options when naming a blog, since I have no cool knitting pun avatar name to draw from. But I thought there was some potential in my real last name, Volk, which means people in German. A quick search for “knit” in a English-to-German dictionary gave me “das Stricken” and I was struck. It stuck. And so: Volkstricken, loosely and probably incorrectly translated The People’s Republic of Knitting (or; I’m-a stricken with the knittin’ and it just ain’t quittin’…)
- Other than Flickr, I don’t participate in much of the online knitting world at large. I read a few knitblogs (see sidebar), but I don’t comment much, I’ve only ever done one Secret Pal, and I don’t use the Knitty messageboard so much anymore. That said, I feel a little awkward about linking to people who may not know me (yet) or know that I read them (yet), because until this little experiment I have been pretty low on the radar. Right now, I’m feeling like I just walked into a debutante ball and I don’t know who to talk to or where to sit. Anyone want to dance?
- And finally, the Resolution: Everything that I knit this year will be knit from my own pattern. This is a big part of why this blog, after so long, actually happened – so I could document how this thing goes. I can tell you already I am probably going to break it. I preordered Glampyre’s Fitted Knits and Twinkle’s Big City Knits months ago… I’ve been waiting for them now so long, how can I resist when they actually get here?
And this is the part where I curtsy, cross my fingers, and exit stage right. Happy new year!
