You've Reached Uncle Stashley's Knitting (and rarely but sometimes Crochet) Blog

Now that I've introduced myself, I thought I'd talk about how I began knitting. Everyone, to the best of my understanding, began in one of four ways. Take the quiz! In the time-honoured tradition of online quizzes everywhere, I have organized the choices by which Sex and the City character you are. 1. You learned to knit at age 3, when your vaguely-ethnic Nana showed you what to do. By 6 you were knitting Aran sweaters regularly and kept your family in socks. Now you teach

Let's start with me, Uncle Stashley. That's a nom-de-plume, by the way, which is a French expression that means one is jealous of Stephanie Pearl McPhee's success as the "Yarn Harlot." Nom-de-plumes are tricky, because unlike nicknames, which tend to be cool like "Truck," "Badger," or "The Whopper," they aren't given to you by friends: you have to choose one for yourself. If you choose a particularly cool name you are clearly trying too hard and no one will read your blog.