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I am Dani Smith, sometimes known as Eglentyne.  This blog is one of my hobbies.  I also knit, sew, run, parent, cook, eat, read, and write fiction.  I have too many hobbies and don't sleep enough.

The title up there makes it sound like this is a knitting blog.  And it is.  Sometimes.  Mostly I talk about whatever is on my mind, and since I'm a knitter, knitting is sometimes on my mind.  When I can find my mind, scattered among three children, a spouse, some tropical fish, and a creepy frog.   

Books are frequently on my mind.  Almost all of the books I mention on this site come from my local library because 1) I love my local library and its smart librarians, and 2) I don't have enough money to feed my reading habit (or the insatiable reading habit of the three Sonars) with purchased books.  If the books come from another source, I'll let you know.  

I put together the images and the words on these pages with thoughtfulness and love.  If you would like to quote small passages, please feel free to do so as long as you attribute them to me and link back to this site.  If you would like to repost large sections or whole posts, please contact me for permission and verification.  I can be reached via Twitter (@eglentyne) or by email (eglentyne at gmail dot com).  Thank you for respecting my intellectual property and for promoting the free-flow of information and ideas.  If you're not respecting intellectual property, then you're stealing.  Don't be a stealer.  Steelers are ok sometimes, but I really don't like thieves.  

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    Eglentyne is Dani Smith 

    I am a Mother, Knitter, Writer, Former-Medievalist, Creator, Ponderer, Reader, (Sometimes) Runner, living in Coastal Texas.  I bake a lot of bread.  You might call me a little crunchy.  I might call myself a little antisocial.  But I love to read about Interesting People and the Cool, Creative things they do in their lives.  

    On these pages I talk about whatever happens to occur to me when I sit down to write.  I talk about my three kids, Sonar X5, Sonar X6, and Sonar X9 (the number in their name is their current age).  I talk about whatever hairbrained craft is engaging me (with yarn, fabric, mangoes, rocks, or rubber tubing).  There's a chance the frog (or the fish she's not eating) will even make an appearance now and again.  

    If the ramblings of a crafty, liberal, stay-at-home mom interest you, I hope you'll stop by regularly.  And leave a note in the comments!  My email address is down there in the footer if you'd like to go that route.  My other social networking links are over in the sidebar.  I may be a little antisocial, but I love messages as much as anybody else, and I'll reply!   

     

    The "Something Knitty" Story

    In late October 2005, an instigator--ahem, I mean friend (Hi Crys!) talked me into writing a novel.  I thought she was crazy.  I thought I was crazy.  I think we still are.  Crys 'rassled (that's fake-Texas talk) me into NaNoWriMo '05.  My story was about a knitter whose yarn started talking to her.  I surprised myself completely, and on November 30, 2005, I finished my first draft.  Crazy.  

    All through the month I pondered titles.  For a little while I called the book "Something Witty" as a placeholder, figuring I'd come up with a funny title to stick in there.  That morphed into "Something Knitty," as in "the title should be a knitting pun or something."  But "Something Knitty" stuck to the novel, and to a lot of other stuff, including this blog, and the bottom of my shoe.  Thanks to Crys' hairbrained idea though, I've finished NaNoWriMo every year since then.  I also finished ScriptFrenzy twice, and almost finished a third time.  By my count, that's eight first drafts hanging around in my house waiting for me to revise them in case someone wants to read them.