My First Blogiversary

One year ago today I entered the world of Blog.
I was reading so many great fiber art blogs I was inspired to start one of my own.
My first born helped me but I had no idea what was going to come of this.
I had to come up with a name. Should the name have something to do with Lupus, teaching, knitting, family. I remembered one day looking at my hands and realizing they looked just like my mothers hands. Now I had a name. My Mother was Puerto Rican and the picture is the Puerto Rican seal.
My daughter came up with, The map to the kingdom of knitting and the country side of crochet.

This was my first post.

Saturday, May 3, 2008
I have no idea. How do people start blogs?

I have to have socks on the needles all the time. At first, I was afraid I couldn't make socks, but now I must have socks available all the time.

I got some Lang JaWoll at a store called Yarn Diva. It comes with thread that lets you reinforce the heel. Yarn Diva is a nice little store, but I still love Stix-n-Stitches.

I'm going to go to get myself a new camera tomorrow. I want to learn how to use it and take some pictures of my stuff and I'll be on my way to blog-land.

I have learned so much in the past year and I thank my daughters for teaching me.
When I had the idea to start a group fiber artists who blog Ravelry made that possible and the Lesser Known Skeins was born.
I have met so many great people this year because of the blog and I hope to know and be inspired by more awesome fiber artists in the future.

Lesser Known Skeins Has Gone Ravelry!

I will be ending the blog because I wasn't able to work it on my own. I feel Ravelry will be something I can keep up with.
I would like the help of the original Lesser Known Skeins. Think of some good topics we can start.
I'm looking forward to this and think it's going to be a great place to get to know some wonderful fiber artists and share great ideas!

Regrouping Lesser Known Skeins

When I got the idea of starting a group of little unknown bloggers working in the fiber arts I had no idea the response there would be.
My daughter and I are back at work and are finding it difficult to keep up with the needs of the super growing group.
We are rethinking the direction we will take and starting a group on Ravelry seems to be the best way to go.
As soon as we get it started I will let all of you know.

Ravelry Button of Honor

I am now a true member of Ravelry because I have a button!


Here is another button I am proud of.



It's my World Wide Knit in Public Day Button. I received it at Stix-n-Stitches when Pat and I spent hours Knitting in Public.
I am so Bless! Not only do I have the greatest family but I have friends to knit with. My daughters and I always knit together and I love that time together. Yesterday Pat and I spent the entier day knitting together. Today I gave a new friend some knitting lessons. She has a new Blog and is well on her way to knitting and blog world.

Ravelry

My daughter Zel is the best teacher in the world. She is teaching me to do this blog and put pictures of my projects into
Ravelry and I can even put in links in my blog posts. Not bad for a 50+ old lady with lupus!



This is just one of the many pics I put in. It is a nechwarmer I first saw on Yarn Ball Boogie.
I have no idea how my daughter has the patience to teach me. I just can't seem to remember anything.

I put in the picture, the link,and added text on Html all by myself. Now I have to see what grade my teacher gives me.