Ah, that new-blog smell. After hours of tinkering with Movable Type (when I should have been reading about Dionysus), I think I finally have this thing ready to roll. The layout isn't quite as nice as I'd like, but I learned web-design in 2000 and I haven't significantly updated my skills since then, so I'll take what I can get. I'd rather be knitting than studying CSS anyway.
I'm always a little uncertain just how introductory these introductory posts need to be. I'm sure most of the people reading this will be people who know me, but for anyone who doesn't, my name is Emma. As of writing, I am a rising junior at a small women's college in central Virginia. I'm a Classical Studies major with a Religion minor, and I'm currently spending my summer doing research on Greek mystery cults (thus the necessity of reading about Dionysus, see above).
The purpose of this blog is to provide an outlet for my creative endeavors and my hobbies, chiefly knitting, but also any other of the many things that spark my interest. I currently keep a LiveJournal, but I believe the format of a blog will be more suited to the kind of thing that I have in mind, which will largely be photos and updates on whatever project I currently have going. As for the knitting, I'm only a beginner. I started knitting just before Christmas, so I've been at it about five months now.
The blog is called the middle knitter for reasons that probably only make sense to me--let's just say I have an affinity for middles and leave it at that. The title is a little bit misleading, as I'm intending this as a blog for my hobbies in general, not just knitting. But calling it after my LiveJournal, the middle thing seemed too vague, especially since even with the other hobbies, this will probably stay primarily a knitblog.
Following this introductory post, I intend to update roughly once or twice a week--probably more during the summer, since it's the school year that really puts me under. I'll try to make later posts sound slightly less academic than this one came out--not sure why that happened, but I'm going to blame the mystery cults.
