SP5 Questionnaire
Here are my answers to the SP5 questionnaire. I love doing these kinds of things. They really make you think about yourself, and gosh, who doesn't love to think about themselves?1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
It’s all the same to me. I pretty much just shop for something that catches my eye.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I crochet, but I don’t spin.
3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
Codeine, shellfish, and dogs. The first two don’t really have anything to do with knitting, and since I have my own personal dog I take a lot of Claritin.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since I was about 10 or 11.
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
No, I don’t.
6. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
Things that smell like the ocean or something yummy baking in the oven.
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
That would be a BIG YES!!!!
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
Gardening and sewing.
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
I like lots of music. My car radio has presets for country, oldies, jazz, alternative, classic rock, and a "music of your life" station that plays stuff like Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Doris day, and Dean Martin. I can play mp3s on my computer and my ipod.
10. What's your favorite color? Or--do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can't stand?
Orange is my favorite. Mostly though I just like to look at orange, I don’t really wear it or decorate my house in orange. The colors I like best to live with are pinks, reds, chartreuse, and that vintage-y avocado green.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
I have a roommate, 2 guinea pigs, and a miniature dachshund.
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
I don’t really have any- I am happy with my life now. Good friends, good family, good pets, a job I love, and I live close to the beach. For me this is heaven.
13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
I don’t really have a favorite. There’s nothing I really hate either, except ribbon yarns. And those I go back and forth on. Sometimes I adore them, other times I get a restraining order put on them.
14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
Nothing, really. Unless it’s really itchy or something.
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
Oh, that’s easy. Cardigans. I have about 400 cardigan pictures that I have saved from magazines (knitting, fashion, and otherwise), websites, and catalogs that I think I will make someday.
16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
Skirts. I’ve knitted a bunch of them, and anytime I can’t think of what to wear for a given event I will dig through my stash and whip up a little knitted mini skirt in an afternoon. I knit them in the round with my tried and true inc and dec pattern (written in black ink on a fluorescent green index card and stashed in a pocket of my project bag for handy reference). I’ve got a dozen or so in all sorts of colors and yarns. I even have a few I knitted from fun fur that look great with boots. Some people like to knit a scarf from their leftovers, I like to knit a skirt.
17. What are you knitting right now?
I am actively working on Kyoto from knitty and a sweater for my dog. I’ll be starting the coverup in Vogue Knitting sometime this weekend, just for a little variety. I have a couple of UFOs that need some TLC, but I am ignoring them for the time being.
18. What do you think about ponchos?
They aren’t for me. I knitted one and then I only wore it once. I couldn’t get home to take it off fast enough. I recycled the yarn into some other projects. I love shrugs though!
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Depends on the project. I use circulars for most everything whether it needs it or not, mostly because they are so protable. For smaller projects, casting on, or really lightweight yarns I like to use a straight needle.
20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
For straights I don’t really care as long as it is smooth and doesn't have one of those wierd convex tips (this hatred of the wierd tip was identified as one of the symptoms of the tight knitter in the current knitty). For circulars I like metal or plastic.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
Nope.
22. How did you learn to knit?
A lady that lives in my parents neighborhood taught me when I was a little girl. She actually had a job making knitting patterns for Leisure Arts. Isn’t that cool? I need to ask my mom if Mrs. James is still doing that. One of my grandmothers also taught me some “advanced” knitting stitches, and how to crochet too. She also gets all the credit for my yarn-holding technique.
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
6 months or so.
24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
Dachshunds!
25. What is your favorite holiday?
My birthday. It’s October 28, but I celebrate it the whole month of Kactober.
26. Is there anything that you collect?
Stamps, white matte Haeger pottery, and yarn!
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
None, I just buy the ones that look yummy at the bookstore/ LYS. And I get lots of ideas for things I want to make from Lucky Magazine. It’s not a knitting magazine, but they have oodles of cute tops and things that I just know I could make if I ever got over my ADHD and could focus long enough to work out the pattern, go get the yarn, and make the silly thing.
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
Rowan Magazine 37 is the current thing I am dying for.
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