Hello world, here I am!

Since everybody and their dog (or cat, as the case may be) has a knittin' blog these days, why not me? *gulp* here goes nothin'-

First, a little backgound about me -
I may be new to blogging, but not to knittin' and spinnin'! I taught myself to knit (not the easiest way to learn, by the way) in 1995, when my husband's job took us to Dallas. I was hanging around all day, surfing the net, which was a brand new deal to me. But lo and behold, there were oodles and gobs of knitters, just itchin' to convert the uninitiated! For the first two years, I was purling wrong and of course I didn't know it. I found some "real" yarn stores, and pretty soon I was all straightened out. Of course, living in Texas does not require a large knit wardrobe, quite the opposite in fact. Well, sometime in the fall of 1999, I discovered a group called ... Socknitters! Yay! Something knitted I could actually use!

Well, we wound up back in our home town of Tyler, TX. I accidentally started a knitting group, by knitting in public (or KIPing, as it's sometimes called.) Me and a friend were in the local Barnes and Noble cafe, enjoying our socks and coffee, when a friend who works there spied us and came over to say, "But I thought knitting was done on TWO needles?!?" Well she dragged the manager over to see, and before I knew it, I had been talked into giving a sock-knitting class, once a week for a month. (At Barnes & Noble?! I can hear you now. But yes, our town is small and our bookstore is cool.) I dubbed it the F.E.E.T. group (First Ever East Texas Socknitters). Lo and behold, people came! And when our four weeks were up, everybody said,
"Let's keep going!" So we did- we meet every Friday morning from 10:00 to 12:00. It's been three years now, and I counted 17 people squeezed in around the table last Friday!
So I decided to finally dip my toe in the water and see if I like blogging. Everyone makes it seem so fun, but I'm beginning to suspect there may be a little work involved.
As soon as I can figure out how (re: get someone to show me!) I will post pictures, links, and other assorted goodies!
bye for now,
Angie