Hi!

Yarnish.com began a little over 4 years ago when, after googling “how to knit”, I stumbled upon the world of knitting blogs.  I bought myself a copy of Stitch N Bitch by Debbie Stoller, joined the Yarn Harlot’s Thrummed Mitt KAL, and within a month I was having breakfast with some bloggy ladies who were destined to become some of my closest friends. 

(Yeah, it was strange meeting people from inside the computer.  I was afraid to tell my friends and family about it, because at the time it just seemed so WEIRD to meet up with people that you met on a website.)

Anyway, as I got more tech-savvy, I moved from Blogger to Typepad, and eventually (December 2006) to my own domain at www.yarnish.com.  About this time I took a hiatus from my career in financial services and wrote a comprehensive knitting stitch dictionary called A Field Guide to Knitting.

Just as I was finishing up the Book in the spring of 2007, Eric (my husband and BFF) took a job in Manhattan, and within 4 weeks we had uprooted from Boston – sold the condo, hugged and kissed our family and friends goodbye, and found an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  After settling us in, I spent a year studying at the UCB Theatre, took an investor services position with a private equity firm in midtown, and got pregnant with our first child.  As of this writing, he’s still in the oven.

A few weeks ago (Fall 2008) a few things happened at the same time:  my old website blew up (wordpress bug), my publisher asked me to link this blog to the book’s page on Amazon, and my hosting services were up for renewal.  It seemed like a perfect time to begin afresh and clean the site up. 

And so here we are.  A new site, a new camera, a new apartment, and here Eric and I are, working in financial services in New York (at a hedge fund and a private equity firm, respectively) during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  It’s a barrel of monkeys, let me tell you.  Oh, and sometime I’ll tell you all the story about how we both lost our jobs at Arthur Andersen during the Enron debacle too. 

I really can’t believe you made it this far.  You could have read all about this just by browsing the site if my 4 years of archives weren’t stuck in a broken shell of wordpress (all saved in a safe place until I can figure out how to hack them out).  Although maybe you should be thankful all you had to read was a summary and not hundreds and hundreds of posts.

Jackie

10/9/08