So I'm finishing up the foot of my duckie when I realize that my first post said nothing useful so I would like to amend that. My name is Cassandra and I am a senior at Mass College of Art and Design I am supposed to graduate in May when I will go from part time to full time at my job. I work at Knit and Needlepoint on Newbury Street in Boston as the resident knitter extraordinaire. I help people with problems and teach newcomers how to knit and occasionally crochet.
When I was 14 I bought Celtic knits by Debbie Bliss at a church sale and brought it home and promptly forgot about it. A few weeks later I picked it up and sat down with some 8's and a ball of canary yellow red heart and made a swatch of a braided cable pattern from a throw that would later make for my grandmother. After showing my mother and not being one to shy away from a challenge, (or necessarily knowing what a challenge is when I see one,) I immediately sat down and designed a cable knit purse for my aunt. I gave it to her a couple of weeks later and haven't really stopped since although I have learned that knit purses need to be lined.
I'm odd. I like small gauges, I rarely do swatches, I knit by sight, I write patterns that no one else can read and I knit continental so differently that no one else does it the same way. So anyway if you're ever in Boston on the train or on a bus and you see a chubby brunette with really long hair using small short or circular needles tell her to sit up straight. I'd really appreciate it.
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