A little personal fiber history!!

I learned to sew when I was 4 making little pillows for my dolls. Sometime in elementary school my mom's friend taught me the basic knit and purl stitches but I grew bored of the striped scarf which I think is still unfinished and gave up knitting. Then in 4th grade we did a lesson where we created very basic lapbelt looms to weave a little project. My mom saw my interest in it, as I created more at home and when our local PBS station had there auction she asked if I would be interested in taking a childrens weaving class at the local art gallery. That lead to 3.5 years of saturday classes and my parents even bought me my own Harrisville floor loom (I'm dying to bring it to my apt but I have no room so for now it's in my mom's attic). Unfortunately, my fiber history goes on hiatus for about 7 years when finally after college I worked at JoAnn Fabrics for some extra money and fell in love with fabrics again! My supervisor helped me modify 3 patterns into one so I could create the perfect Renaissance gown, which ironically is, yes you guessed it - not finished either! LOL, It's close. I only need to finish the hem and serge the armholes. But it was set aside for a Civil War warrobe! My friend was putting together a beautiful Civil War gown to wear at a reenactment while I was working on my dress for the faire and I couldn't resist creating my own. 5 outfits and 20 bolts of fabric on my shelf later, I look at movie customs in a whole new light!! How can I recreate that outfit? Why did they use that period incorrect fabric? Look at the detail! Anyway, oh yes. This brings me back to knitting. I'm always looking for something new to add to my Civil War warrobe and I'm servely lacking warm accessories! Gloves, bonnets, shawls. The weather can go from below freezing at 1 event to so hot if you were even wearing a tiny tank and short shorts that would be to much let alone a long sleeved multi layered dress! Last fall I took up knitting again. The basics were easy to remember and while I surfed from one knit blog to another, I couldn't help but want to create amazing things. So my blog with be a hodge podge of all things fiber. Whatever I'm obsessing about at the time of my post. Now that I have a functioning new digital camera, I'm sure I'll be posting all sorts of posts!