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Frappy Hiday!

Wendy and her readers have been looking back to 80s fashions this week; in the future will we look back nostalgically and say to ourselves "Remember 2005? When everybody had a blog?"

Coincidentally this week, Leigh has been talking about cringe-worthy blog entries. Will we look back in horror at some of the stuff we blithely set loose on the Internet? (Leigh is also knitting and knitting a beautiful glove.)

Both these blog-event-entries, Wendy's and Leigh's, made us think here at the blogdogblog. Yesterday marked our two-year blog anniversary. Yep! April 7, 2003: a blog! some dogs! blogdogblog is two years old. Take a trip down blogMemory Lane and see Laura's skull vest in the early stages (and finished, too!).

Looking back, we had book reviews and a baby surprise jacket; we had a cowboy cutie and corrugated ribbing; we had hives! and we had hats for homeless veterans. We had gloves and gadgets and even some glamor! We had pythons and pedicures, and we moved from the East Coast to the No-Coast. We had birthdays and pirates and a cotton-y field-trip. We met wonderful knit bloggers in person, we were rejected by Knitty for lack of artistic and professional values in our photos, and we even had a run-in with bozo knitters. Am I cringing? Maybe you are, but all in all, I've had a marvelous time. And some of it was spent reading Leigh's blog, which to my eyes, has always featured beautiful knitting, beautiful photos, beautiful spinning, and beautiful writing.

Paradoxically, as the knitting blogs- ring has grown and grown and grown, I find I read fewer and fewer blogs . . . what does that mean? Less time? Less interest? Overkill? No. Not at all! It's not you, it's me. The dozen or so blogs I go back to again and again are authored by knitters who couldn't be more different to one another in their lifestyles, and who extend their knitting and needlecraft to me from a number of global knitting nooks. I've never read a "I've been too busy to blog" entry on any of them, by the way. ;-)

My very first blog entry was dedicated to Wendy because reading her blog every day for nearly a year made me want a blog of my own. I was just beginning two-color stranded knitting and its accompanying steekiness and Wendy was an inspiration and a coach. Knitting blogs made knitting exciting to me again. Yay! for all you knitting schmoos!

So, while I don't read everybody yet, I'd like to. And, overall, I gotta say that I just love knitting blogs, and crochet blogs, and fiber art blogs, and textile news blogs, and the ability to connect with and learn from so many of you on an electronic basis. I just gotta find a way to meet more of you. And, my dear dozen dears, you know who you are and I thank you for your unflagging committment to keeping me entertained. Mwah! and woofs! I'm eager to meet the other 600+ of you. Really!

What?

Still here?

Bless your heart! Coming next week, a review of Crazy Toes and Heels and some photos of finished objects. About time, right? This blog was starting to look a bit, um, en français! schmurmudgeonly.

We wish you the frappiest hiday ever!!

Cheers! And keep on knit-blogging . . .please :-)

Knitting, War, Art

Artist Nina Rosenberg is seeking tiny hand-knit red sweaters. You can participate in the creation of an art installation at Redsweater.

Thursday. Lordy!
Cheers!

Witless with Joy

Kylie over at Knitting in Public posts lots of interesting items all the time—I highly recommend a visit to her blog, but I really don't have to, as you'll want to rush right over when you see what she has found.

Observe Della, letting us all know what she thinks about Spring-Forward Time Changes:

Now, thanks to Kylie's quick eye for the useful and fabulous, observe Della as a ready-to-knit chart:

As the chic-est chicknitter would say, "WOOT!" Kylie has the skinny on what this useful tool is about and where you can find it and why it's being offered to knitters for free. GOGOGO to Kylie's!

This cool tool is also an excellent lead in for a blurb here about the "Knit Against the Machine" un-KnitaLong over at Amber's. Amber has been supplying us with some excellent posts the past few days that provide provocative food for knitting thought. Mouse on over and see what gets your knitfreak on—yeah!

Tuesday. We're off to work. In the dark. Cheers (sorta)!