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1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
-i do use cheap yarns sometimes for projects, but i certainly would not want to give it, or get it as a gift! blech! i am a snob indeed.

2. Do you spin? Crochet?
-yesssssity yesssss!

3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
-smoke, plus it shtinkssss. i can’t wear cheapy jewelry, i get a gross rash. and i have sensitive skin, so i can’t use perfumey skin products.

4. How long have you been knitting?
-a year in november.

5. Do you have an Amazon, Knitpicks or other online wish list?
-no, but i will get one together…my amazon is natashafialkov i believe.

6. What’s your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
-i love fruity things and foody things. ginger perfume used to be my main scent, now i have a tropical thing going on. i don’t like flowery stuff.

7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
-yes, but i only eat sugar free candy.

8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
-you name it, i probably do it. i spin, draw, make stuff…make dolls, purses, stuffed animals

9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
-i think it plays mp3’s. i am tricky on the music front. i like unusual music. i am not into top 40, rap, country…i am a bit hard to choose for. i think i have a list on my blogger account.

10. What’s your favorite color? Or–do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can’t stand?
-i love color. i look bad in yellow, but i do like it, look best in jewel tones…i love pink and brown or pink and green together. i love really bright greens, ok, most greens.

11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
-i am married and have 3 kitties.

12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
-i am doing it! i just quit my job to pursue full-time spinning, dyeing, knitting, sculpture, etc…

13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
-probably silk or really soft wools.

14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
-anything squeaky or boring.

15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
-hm…i love really crazy yarns. my last sp, who rocks! got me yarns from habu made out of paper, silk and stainless steel, ooooh. also, i just started crocheting sculpture and i like using rope and unusual fiber, like i am looking for paper string…

16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
-i love it all…

17. What are you knitting right now?
-some fingerless gloves of my own pattern, baby hats to sell at a kid’s boutique, breast cancer scarves for a boutique, booties for boutique, leaf cravat from teva durham…

18. What do you think about ponchos?
-i make em, but don’t wear em. i prefer wraps.

19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
-circs, but i use both. i am in dire need of dpns in wood in sizes above 10, does that exist?

20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
-baboozle. i love bryspun circs too.

21. Are you a sock knitter?
-not yet. maybe someday.

22. How did you learn to knit?
-i basically taught myself.

23. How old is your oldest UFO?
-a couple of months.

24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
-i love kitty stuff or any sort, well not garfield or something and i really like sheep and llama stuff also.

25. What is your favorite holiday?
-valentine’s day, my birthday, which is oct 6, btw

26. Is there anything that you collect?
-i like cat things, sheep things, vintage knitting things, notions

27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
none yet. i normally buy em on the newstand. i have free copies of all the interweave stuff. i would love to get rebecca, don’t have any copies of it, but am too cheap to buy it. i love selvedge, also and the craft magazine from england that is from the craft council. fabu!

28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
-japanese knitting books, craft books, yarns to dye for!

soooo, i feel much better today, although i still have a gimpy eye and foot. but i don’t want to kill anyone, or myself, so that is a major improvement! yeah!

i have a crocet lesson today, and plan to spin for a while before that happens. i made some really cute fluffy baby hats that i will put ears on, as well as a pull-on adult white fluffy headband with ears that go on it last night, that i need to add elastic to. i think it will look really cute. also, if anyone has any advice on my starting a store, or who can set it up for me at a reasonable cost, please email me!!

off to shower!
smoochies!
n.