Sarah E. White
Posted By Craft Corps on March 30, 2009
Sarah E. White
Name: Sarah E. White
Age: 30
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Profession: Guide to Knitting for About.com, freelance writer and editor
Craft(s) of Choice: Mostly knitting, but also beading, candle making, sewing and making cards when I have time
Blog: http://knitting.about.com, http://lifeinbooks.blogspot.com
I feel lucky to have come from a family of crafters. My mother knits and sews, my grandmother did just about every craft, and I have aunts who are artists, quilters, cross-stitchers and all-around crafty ladies.
When I was growing up I was in 4-H, and every summer when we’d go to Iowa to stay with my grandparents, grandma would have a new project waiting or a craft to try that we could then enter into the county fair (if the finished product came out anything like it was supposed to).
She taught me how to cross-stitch, failed miserably at teaching me crochet, but most importantly, she taught me how to knit. My first projects weren’t anything pretty, or even technically correct, but somehow I got past that to the point where I could consistently form the stitches and combine them into beautiful knit fabric.
When I was a senior in high school, getting ready for my last county fair, I knit a baby blanket with a simple diamond motif out of pastel variegated babyweight yarn. It was lovely, and I wasn’t the only one who thought so: it went on to win a Grand Champion ribbon at the county fair and a red ribbon at the state fair.
I understood that knitting was not about external rewards, but I knew then that knitting wasn’t something I needed to be ashamed of or think of a geeky – other people could see the beauty in my stitches, too.
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