The Land of the KnitaSaur

First things first: You can get a hold of me in a couple of ways:
Comment here. Nice and simple. If you leave an email addy or website, I can get back to you :D
Email me. alariddathreman AT gmail DOT com :D
I’m on Rav–I’m KnitaSaur

Now, get to know me (Updated Nov 2, 08) :D
The quick way:

I’m a university student who likes to play with string, tape, and shiny things. I may have a jumping-out-of-planes habit and an addiction to my camera. I also play “designer” sometimes.

Let’s expand that a bit:
I’m taking the Fashion Design program at UFV. You are likely to see a lot of my project blogged here–I get quite a few that are fairly crafty in nature. It comes with the territory, you know, making pretty stuff.

Moving on to the strings, tape and shiny things. String is yarn, obviously. On that front, Malabrigo is my current addiction. I also tend like exotic fibers, just to paw at. I like super-bright colors, jewel-tones and metallics. Quite the spread :p I’m not super-picky. Tape–I went through a duct tape phase. I’ve got tutorial for making your own duct tape purst in the sidebar. And shiny things? Beads. Shiny tape. Shiny yarn. I really like shiny yarn. I’m part of the Karma Yarn Swap Group on Rav and the shiny yarns are the hardest to walk away from. Ohh, and I love shiny shoes. I’m like a magpie.

Jumping out of planes habit? Well, that only happened once. And that almost didn’t–the only time we had available was my last day in Hawai’i, but this summer there was a hurricane passing to the south of the island we were on. So, the winds were pretty high, about 29mph. They don’t go up at 30mph. But upon finding out that I was leaving that day and they wouldn’t get my money if they didn’t go, they decided to risk it :p You’ll have to trust that this is me :D

And the last thing is an addiction to my camera. Yep, love the little thing. It’s a Canon A460 and has a frikkin awesome macro setting. I’m now learning to play with some of the settings on it and getting a decent white balance and such. Natural light helps. My bf taught me a cool trick–exhale as you are taking the shot, it makes your hands stay a bit steadier. Very useful for me, as I have the shakiest hands in the world.

I play designer a bit, I’ve got a few patterns available in the sidebar. I’ve also got a few more planned–you’ll see them if you stick around :D

So, that’s the rundown on the mini-profile, here’s a few other random things:
I’m 20. I’m dating Greg, and have been for about 4 years. We went to high school together, but only started dating after I switched out of the school we were in. I was a traitor and went off to the other high school where I could be part of the musicals. Which I was–between them and the city band, I’ve been in the pit orchestra for Sweet Charity, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pink Panther and a bunch more. Oh, I play flute, piccolo, sax (mostly tenor, but bari in the community band and alto when I have to), clarinet and oboe. Tried to learn guitar, but after 6 years of normal music, I can’t read more than one note at a time :(