Fever

I've caught the knitting bug. I mean, I have been knitting for 3 years now and I have always loved it. I wanted to learn so badly that I taught myself. My grandma and my aunt both knit, and my aunt has her own business based on her crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, painting, etc, etc, etc...), but they live, well, very far from me. In fact, they live over 5,000 miles away, and I couldn't ask them to help me learn it. So I taught myself.

Now I can finally manage some different and more interesting projects, and I can't stop! I'm constantly trying to find excuses to knit and new projects to work on. Ravelry doesn't help. And now I find that there's a whole network of people who love to knit around here. It's seriously a conspiracy so that I get nothing else done.

Yesteday I started working on a pair of socks for Fall. It was originally intended for my husband, but they are turning out to girly, so I made a deal with him. I'll make him a more manly hat and I'll keep the socks for myself. I just hope they fit me now, but if they are a little too big, I'll just wear them around the house.

(The picture is of a baby blanket I just finished this weekend)

Waiting...

I am 37 weeks pregnant. This is now just a waiting game.

I am excited to meet my daughter, but I'm also afraid of the big unknown that becoming a parent for the first time is. Will I be a good mom? Can I handle the responsibility of helping another human being grow? It's all a bit scary.

Since this is the first blog, I should explain the title. Baby, well, you read the paragraph above, so you can figure that one out. Needles refer to knitting needles, as I love to knit and I plan on using the blog to talk about projects, difficulties, fun things to make, and anything related to knitting. Dead trees... That's a weird one, I know, but I mean books (paper, get it?). Reading is my oldest addiction and one that hopefully I'll never get over. I don't always have the time to read the books I want, but when I do, it's so wonderful. So I'll be writing about those also.

Now back to my knitting...