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March 29, 2005

My Interview

Christine has interviewed me!  Wanna play?  Leave me a comment that you'd like to be interviewed and I will make up 5 questions for you to answer!  :)

1) Aside from your fabulous blog STITCH!, you also are involved in an amazing circle of crafty ladies, the hat city scissor squad. Tell us a little about it, how it got started and what you all are currently up to!

Gladly! Basically, I wanted to get involved in a Stitch 'n Bitch in my area, but the closest gathering was still a 40 minute drive for me.... Not gonna happen! Then I heard of a group that was starting to meet at a nearby quilt shop - but it still just didn't feel right.... I was talking to my sister Mary about it and we both agreed that we really wanted to meet some like-minded craftistas! We didn't care about age - but we wanted to meet some open minded, fun, creative people! I whined to Mary that she needed to learn how to knit so she could come along if I started a group. And then we had a simultaneous epiphany. Why not start a SnB type of group for all crafts? Not just knit and crochet! We sat around and thought of a spunky name (we are QUITE proud of it, thank you very much) and thus, The Hat City Scissor Squad was born. We started as just me, Mary, and our bud Michelle hangin out at the local coffee house, but then we created a Yahoo! group site and posted on Craftster and Get Crafty and all of the sudden we had a half dozen scissorinas!

Over the past 9 months or so, we have grown to a group of 20 and have held Scissor Swap night (where we traded all of our extra craft supplies!), Bath Goodie Making Day, and have now started to hold charity craft-alongs. Right now we are running a Secret Scissor Swap - we each picked names out of a hat and we'll now make something for our Secret Scissor Pal! Next up will be a Naked Lady Party to swap unwanted clothes (and give the extras to Goodwill!) and we're thinking about organizing some "theme nights" where we might teach fellow scissorinas something that we've learned to do! Such as using a drop spindle, making knitting needles, or crafting your own stitch markers.....

I love this group of gals - they are exactly the people I needed to meet! We alternate our meetings between that good ol' coffee house and a bar. :) I love me some knitting and beer. I guess that kind of sums up our group's attitude right there... haha.

2) You have a tight-knit relationship with your family, tell us one thing about each member that you love them for.

Tight knit, eh? Haha. Thats about right... Well, there are a lot of us, so I'd best dive right into it!

My Pop - I love his tenacity... My Dad does't give up too easily on anything and it has rubbed off on me. He is quite stubborn, which I find to be a very good quality. Well, would you look at that? I have that quality, too! How convenient....

My Mom - I love her creativity! My mom can turn a bedsheet into a ballgown, I swear to God! She has always been able to make a whole lot out of a whole little, and with style....

My sisters:

Mary - My sister Mary is possibly the most whimsical person I have ever met. Now, this can sometimes be a frustrating quality for someone very practical minded such as myself... But, no matter how frustrating it can be, it really is my favorite quality she posesses. It's also something I find very difficult to describe or explain.... Let's just say, she quite often has her head in the clouds - and when she's up there she gets some pretty fantastic ideas....

Heather - Wit, my friend. Wit. Heather has a sharp mind, but a sharper tongue. I love to sit around with this gal and make fun of stuff, people, ridiculous beliefs... When we are together, we often hazard a guess that we are going straight to Hell, but I am betting on God having an even better sense of humour than Heather.

Caitlin - Okay, by far the hardest to narrow down to just one thing! Cait is the youngest of us girls - and I am the oldest. When she was born, I was old enough to babysit. And I did! While my Mom worked nights, I changed diapers, sang her to sleep, and got to watch her grow into a cute little pixie. Of course, she kept growing and now towers over me... I feel like a dwarf next to this kid! When she was 3 or 4, she started calling me "best friend" along with her mangled version of my name (she called me "Chara") and we had little heart shaped necklaces to prove it. By the time I left for college, she was 5 and it was ridiculously hard to go! I love just about everything about Caitlin - I just can't pick one thing. I think the next people I will be able to say that about will be my own kids. :)

3) Who taught you to knit and what got you into knitting in the first place?

I decided to learn to knit about a year and a half ago because I do a lot of other crafts (sewing especially) and I thought it would be a good thing to know how to do just for the experience... To add embellishments to clothes, etc... So, I went out and bought a "Learn to Knit One Ugly Scarf Kit" and got crackin! I liked it so much I went out to the book store and searched around for a cool book..... Guess what I found? Once my eyes gazed upon Stitch n Bitch by Debbie Stoller, it was all over. I taught myself to knit using that first crappy kit, SnB, and the fabulous interweb, which is what turned me on to the wonder of knitting blogs! I love knitting more than I ever loved sewing - which is saying quite a bit.... Actually, I think that my love of knitting has sparked my love of sewing all over again - I can't wait to make some dresses this Spring to go along with some of the shrugs and wraps I have in mind.....

4) Where did you meet your man, what are his "intentions" (haha, sorry just had to use that phrase) and what is the number one reason you love him so? (That's a hard question! You can only pick ONE!)

I met my man at opening night of the re-release of Return of the Jedi. He was sitting behind me with a friend of mine. He called me a "hippie" and I told him that I preferred not to be classified as any one thing and that he should shove it. Upon speaking with him that night after the movie and participating in a heated discussion about vegetarianism (he was con, I was pro...), I decided this guy was an arrogant ass, who was definitely not worth my time! We became friends over time and he became one of the few people I felt I could really talk to. He's always told it like it is, with no apologies and it became clear that this was something very rare and admirable. It wasn't until 2 years ago, after being friends for almost 6 years, that anything romantic ever happened. I look back, of course and realize that I was absolutely in love with him for at least 4 out of those 6 years..... but hindsight's 20/20 right? Anyhoo, we've been together ever since and I have never had a relationship like this before - and honestly, didn't think I'd ever have one this good.....

His intentions are pure I assure you! We talk a lot about getting married, but he wants to improve his own financial situation before we do that. (I don't care about it, but he's pretty insistent). Whenever and however it happens, I can't wait. He's my best bud. :) And he's a looker to boot! Yowza!

The number one reason I love him so is.... drumroll please....his willingness (and desire) to talk about anything. He is an amazing communicator - anything that is going on, anything he is feeling, he wants to discuss. I love and appreciate that more than anything else. We don't have any secrets and we keep an open line of communication at all times. Because of that, I think we have mutual trust! I trust him enough to tell him what's on my mind or that I'm upset and I know his reaction isn't going to be that he doesn't want to deal with it! He always wants to know - and I think thats pretty amazing.

5) Have you ever been to a pyschic?

No, but I have been around plenty of people who fancy themselves to be psychic.... I've had my Tarot read more times than I can count, but I really doubt more than one of those people actually had a clue about what they were doing... I do believe there are people out there that have psychic abilities though! Just not the five dozen people who have told me they do.

p. s.  here are the rules to play along!
1. Leave me a comment saying “interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions here. They will be different questions than the ones above.
3. You will update YOUR blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

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