Greetings!

Hello. My name is Elaise and I'm a knitter.

*bored sounding group response* "Hi, Elaise..."

Yes, it's an addiction and I fully cop to my need for it. It's come and gone a few times since I had my first taste at the tender age of 18. I know... many people learned at much more tender ages but damn, 18 seems like SO long ago. (No, I'm not telling you my age... Silly...) (OK, mid-thirties. Happy?)

This latest bout began with my therapist asking me if I knitted when I was blabbering on to him about my anxiety. (I know! You're just getting ALL the dirty details now, aren't you?!) I said that yes I did but I wasn't working on anything at the moment. He told me all about how his wife likes to knit. He overshares sometimes but it's cool.

Anyway, that got me thinking about how much I just loved it, had kind of forgotten about it and maybe I should pick it up again. Oh, and there were the 34 balls of Aran I got from Elann.com with the pattern for the gorgeous coat I wanted to make.... kinda forgot about that sitting with the rest of my stash, behind the sofa. Hmmmmm... maybe I could start on that.

The rest is history. Well, not really... it was actually just a few months ago but now I am totally and thoroughly hooked again and impatiently waiting for my Ravelry.com account to be approved.

I've actually had many rushes of knitting need over the years, which is where "dorkchic" came from. I was making stuff like crazy and wanted little labels with a fun name for them. Who knows... maybe I'll actually start using them again. The "dork" because... well, I'm a dork, and the "chic" as in "tres chic" but also as in "hot chic". Or is it "hot chick"? Damn... now chic looks weird and not right. Maybe it's the hangover. No, not a knitting hangover, (although I have had those before, from staying up WAY too late working on something to the point where my fingers cramp,) a real one. From the girly, knitty party I had yesterday. Although I ended up being the only one knitting in the midst of crocheting, needlepointing, corset and quilt making. So much fun, but a story for another time.

So, here I am! Dorking out and starting a blog. I'm not sure if it'll end up being a knitting blog or not but that's the plan. I'm sure I'll ramble on about lotsa stuff, if only to force myself to update often, but I can't talk about some parts of my life because my mom might eventually find this so know that I'm actually a lot more exciting than this. ;)