Because the one thing I really need is another blog......

Yes, that's right, I have started myself another blog. Aptly titled Knits of The Living Dead because....I said so! Yes, I love zombies and I love knitting, so why not?

I'm sure most of the people on my livejournal could care less about my knitting entries, and I think it is rather nice to have a blog dedicated to simply knitting (with the errant zombie post here and there muahaha) that I can link into my Ravelry profile. Something that doesn't need to be "private" is nice as well.

So I should fill you guys in on what you should expect to find here. First, there will be the knitting stories/catastrophies. As well as my own patterns and projects that I'm working on which will include knitting and crochet projects. And every once in a while you'll be treated to some yarn porn.

As if my days weren't filled up enough between work, school and homework. Hah. Now I'm going to force myself to knit a little bit every day or at least post about knitting daily. a lot.

So I guess we need to get started here with a little bit of an introduction. So here goes.

My name is Ashley, but I prefer being called Busty thanks to my love of Roller Derby (Busty Yorneekaps was my skater name). I adore everything zombie, halloween, horror, and gore. I'm currently 25 years old and live in the grand state of delusion...I mean New Jersey where I work part time as an office assistant for a silicone sales and manufacturing company. I also attend school full time in pursuit of my Communications Associate. After community college I will be transferring to a four year school to go after my degree in Media and Film production. Lofty goals as of now, but one day it will happen. I enjoy knitting and crocheting, maybe a little too much. I've been knitting for about 3 years and have only been crocheting for less than 6 months. These skills run in my family, both my mom and grandmother would crochet when I was little and my grandmother knitted. It should come as no surprise then that I inherited my grandmothers knitting needles and crochet hooks when she gave up the practice due to arthritis not cooperating with her.

I have been blessed with gifts when it comes to my two fiber-ific loves. My knitting needle collection is now absurd (mainly because I spent a lot of time constructing my own knitting needles out of wooden dowels), I have between 4 and 5 full sets of straight needles and countless DPNs and circulars. My collection of crochet hooks is not much better. I have almost 100 standard crochet hooks. Yep. This collection consist of my grandmothers hooks and my great grandmothers hooks. I also have a butt load of those steel hooks for making ridiculously small, intricate lace things. But I don't feel like going blind so they just sit there and keep the other hooks company.

The other fiber related gift I've been blessed with was a huge increase in my stash. The former secretary at my church has a sister who used to knit designer wear for a company and she had all this leftover yarn around her house. She gladly gifted it to me since she no longer knits. And while I have seen larger stashes of yarn, I'm quite impressed with my collection. It is currently being contained in two large flip top tupperware bins and two three-drawer tupperware "dressers". THen, of course, the yarn that would not fit in those drawers is in the bag they came in still.

Here, this will give you a much better idea at the yarn that I currently posses:



That's the yarn I was GIFTED on my queen size bed. That does not include my two large totes filled with yarn (but you can see one tote off to the left of the bed to get an idea of how much more yarn I have). I think I counted once and I have close to 200 varieties of yarn. Yea I'm a bit insane.