Blogiversary
Published August 21, 2007 by cheryl
This month marks a year since I started blogging. I’m a little overdue on the anniversary, but with all that’s been going on, I’m sure you can understand the delay.
To celebrate, I’m having a contest. Leave a comment on this post by midnight (where you live) on Thursday August 23rd, and tell me something you like or admire about another knitter - someone you know, or have known, or maybe just someone you admire. It doesn’t have to be about knitting - maybe you just want to say how absolutely smashing blog-free Val looked in her sunglasses and new black hat and a week ago (looking like she just stepped off Rodeo Drive), or how much you like someone’s laugh. Maybe you just have a happy memory that you’d like to share.
If you’re too late to enter the contest, please feel free to share a special thought or memory anyway.
The winner will be chosen by the super-duper random number generator. And the prize? Well, sorry, but it’s not yarn. Instead, it’s something to celebrate both my blogging anniversary and my new blog - an official Cabled Sheep mug:
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Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
It’s really been a year? Time does fly when you’re having fun. I love your description of Val, she always looks like a star. Happy Bloggiversary, grrlfriend!
I admire YOU and how professional you and your blog are. Go, grrlfriend!
I admire pretty much ALL knitters! In general they are exceptionally kind, sweet, helpful, funny - the list could go on and on
Oops! And Happy Blogiversary!!
Happy Blogiversary!
I belong to two very special groups of knitters - my Utah SnB grrls and my Crafty Threads ‘n’ Yarns people. Both groups are immensely caring and supportive of each other as well as being highly creative and skilled in the needle arts! I am so lucky to count all of you as friends.
I’d buy one of those mugs, even if I don’t win one. So let me know if I can after the contest.
I admire Susan. She’s brilliantly smart and a great designer. Her stuff is always functional and beautiful.
Happy Blogiversary!
I admire Lauren, who’s incredibly dedicated and prolific and perhaps a little too humble about her own achievements.
Very hard to single one person out. I am now mentally composing lists of everyone I’ve ever knit with and what I most appreciate about them. I do love you all!
Happy blogiversary! I loved meeting the Ewe-tah Girls in June - you were all fabulously poised and fun, exceeding all expectations!
How do I only choose one? I think Margene has awesome ideas, like the EZ FI yolk sweater for the SnB group to do together. I think Susan is very fun to talk to and is an amazing hand spinner. Wow. I think my friend Jessica is an incredible seamstress and has really great taste. Okay. I’ll stop, but I could go on and on. I enjoyed meeting you yesterday evening at SnB.
I admire your husband, even though he is not a knitter he is a great enabler! Please put me on the list for a foot row counter as soon as they are availible! It is so cool!
Is it fair to say every knitter I’ve ever met has added to my life by meeting them? Even those I’ve overheard at yarn shows, made a comment and engaged in lively discussion have enriched my existence. Mostly, I think there is a thread of humility, even with those knitters who have achieved great notariety for their designs–like our very own Miriam, Susan, and now YOU! Happy Blogiversary! And I second Anne’s comment. Larry Rocks! Blue skies and lots of love
Happy, slappy Blogiversary!
I admire Margene. Even when she comes across a difficult project, she perseveres until the project is complete, and the technique mastered!
A knitter I admire is my friend Julie, she is a knitter without fear and never thinks a project is too hard. Her second project ever was a fairisle sock!! Anything that I might think is too difficult to attempt she says oh no you can do that! Just what a knitter needs in a friend!
Happy Blogiversary.
I admire the Harlot for her ability to put into words the feeling all we knitters have. From projects that seem to have it out for us to food that disappears at lightening speed when our children are around; it’s like she is spying on my family.
Knitters rock! But I especially admire my fiber friend Sarah (http://www.skeinsandbeans.com). She and I met on April 1 in Ann Arbor at The Yarn Harlot’s appearance and have been inseparable since! Sarah is funny, generous and so helpful! It took going 40 minutes from home to find out we only live 10 minutes away from each other. Sarah is generous with her time and her knitting help and is never afraid to try something new.
Dawn. Just like a fresh new day, her laughter bring light to our Wednesday nights. A quick-witted gal who knits from her heart. Between 7 gkids and birthdays-her projects are most often for others. While numbers, charts and technique come easily for me, I rarely knit for others. She challenges me to share my knitting with others, much more broadly that I would without knowing her.
Happy Blogiversary! I admire the Harlot for just being a kind and talented soul. I met her in April and she was charming. Plus she was wearing her lovely Bohus sweater and it was so nice to be able to see what she had been showing us on her blog in person.
Happy Happy bloggin Day!!!!!
Came over here by way of Chris: I’m just happy to meet ANYONE who likes to knit and can talk shop with!!!! Most of them peeps seem to be on the blogs, not too many in real time.
I have a very special knitting friend named Jacqui 75 years young, she is so full of life I want to be her when I grow up!!!
Happy Blogiversary.
Happy Anniversary! There is one woman at a LYS who is always so helpful and patient, and who does amazing work. She seems to know it all, and is so willing to share. I call her “a little ray of sunshine”.
Oh my goodness, knitters I admire… I’ll say my mother, who taught me how to knit but couldn’t teach me her knitting/designing genius. I still have a vest she knit 50 years ago - without a pattern, but with amazing style and skill.
Just one? Aren’t we all just wonderful? My grandmothers would have to top the list. Afterall, not only did they teach me to knit, but they created so many wonderful treasures throughout their lifetimes… often without patterns, or fancy needles or even nice yarn.
The first knitterly thing that popped into my head: A friend I’d met through the LYS (he was manager), whose knitting I quite admire, took the plunge when the shop became available and jumped into the dream of owning his own shop. I thought it quite inspirational, to see someone decide to go ahead, do what he wanted, and .make. it work rather than just letting things happen to him. Kudos to Sean!
What a cute mug! So for admiration, I have a lot for Debbie New (who wrote Unexpected Knitting)…she KNIT a BOAT of all things! Makes me wonder about knitting a kayak…
HBTY!! I admire Heide of http://heideho.wordpress.com/ who up until recently had never kept a pair of socks that she’d knit, always giving them away!
Happy Blogiversay!
I admire Harlot, any knitter that constantly comes up with new ideas and shares those ideas.
Happy Blogiversary!!
One of the most inspiring knitter stories I have is from my Step-grandmother. She made me (when I was very little) a beautiful knit dress with pictures of a hilly-grassy area and kids playing. I think there is even a little dog The sleeves are patterned as well. I have not yet tried colorwork, so that itself amazes me. What is even more amazing however, is that she did all of it without a pattern!
Very inspiring!
I admire all the hand dyers out there for their hard work and gorgeous color combos.
I don’t know many folks personally who knit (I know, that’s crazy considering how many are out there), but I’m slowly meeting more and more amazing folks on the web. And the names that stand out most right now are Claudia, who raised an insane amount of money for MS and biked an insane amount of miles for the cause…and Anne of Knitspot who does amazing designs and is willing to share the process with us–she seems like such a cool person. But the knitting community is just amazing and I respect each and every one I’ve ‘met’!
I admire Annie Modesitt for her unvarnished honesty about an incredibly painful time in her life. I could never be that frank about so much pain.
I most admire the woman that taught me how to knit. I’d asked her to teach 3 other women and myself. In two and a half hours, we only got casting on and the knit stitch. She was an excellent teacher, it’s just that we were completely lame! Out of the four, I’m the only one that stuck with it.
Thanks Lisa, you’re a peach!
There are so many knitters I admire. Most of all I’m amazed at the openness and generosity of knitters. Look at the response to the Yarn Harlot’s Knitters Without Borders, Norma’s Red Scarf Project, Ryan’s Dulaan Project, Cara’s Spin Out, Afghans for Afghans, knitting for preemies, prayer shawls, for Chinese orphans, for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, for the homeless, for cancer patients, for anyone who needs an expression of love, comfort, community, or companionship. A reminder that they are not alone and that someone, somewhere, is thinking of them and their predicament.
One of my favorite knitters, in person as well as on the internet, is Marianne (http://knotminding.blogspot.com/). She’s an incredibly generous woman with the soul of a poet and the mouth of a sailor. She makes gorgeous, earthy knits, and sends most of them off to far corners of the world, intended for people she’ll never meet.
Go check out her blog. I promise you’ll be inspired.
I just had lunch yesterday with two knitting friends. One of them has come down from Canada to visit family, and I get to see her about once a year. This woman is amazing. SK (Shui Kuen) designs and makes the most beautiful lace shawls. They make me want to make one, even though I never wear shawls and have no use for one (SoCal is not really a shawl-wearing kind of place). She makes all her patterns available for free at Elann.com, and two of her shawls are used for Elann’s ads in the newest VK and Knitter’s. Her patterns usually feature both charts and line-by-line instructions. SK is warm, funny, and caring. I am so pleased to know her, and to be able to see her work in person. She is truly amazing.
Honestly there are so many knitters i admire i cannot choose just one. There are those who knit for their community, make their living knitting, social knitters with lots to share….. The ones I mostly admire a bit more right now (envy really!) are those ladies who are so skilled in their knitting, their spinning, who raise the animals they shear, then process and spin . I would so love to have the abilities and time to live this life…someday! *smile*
I admire Beth. She taught me to knit and taught me that no matter what pattern I like I could knit. I made a baby blanket, then a pair of socks, then a lace scarf. I can knit anything.
Happy Blogiversary
I’m sliding in under the wire here (it’s 11:17 p.m.). My happy memories are of those Tuesdays when someone brings a finished project to SnB. Man, I loves me an FO!