some thoughts on blogging

It's hard to remember that just a few weeks ago, I had not blogged for more than seven months due to working on my mother's family history.


my great-grandparents' wedding register entry 1889

 Some of you may have noticed that I have been posting daily for nearly three weeks. This has been a surprise to me; I never dreamed I would have something to write every day. Daily blogging may not continue forever, I am after all "blogging without obligation" but, for now, it's just how it is.

concept from http://www.tartx.com/blog/?page_id=233

At one point, early last year, I starting a second blog called Quilting Adventures in Knitterland. I transferred three posts from this blog to that blog then abandoned it. I didn't want my life scattered across two blogs!

For a long time, if I had nothing knitterly to write about, I wouldn't post at all. Then I added dyeing to my crafting repertoire and started writing about that.

hand dyed acrylics 2008

When I became interested in patchwork, I started writing about that too; but all the time I had in the back of my mind that this was was a knitting blog and the content had to be mostly about knitting.

our first patchwork purchases 2010

Now that I have returned to blogging, I have a new approach to my blog. Something along the lines of: "It's my blog and I'll write what I want to".


It's given me a new freedom to write about things that catch my fancy - whether they are craft related or not.

crocuses in his autumn garden

Knitting remains, and will remain for the foreseeable future, the primary craft in my life - mostly because it's portable and can be done even when enjoying television or conversation, at home or in public. Therefore knitting will still feature on this blog, but not every day.

Horseshoe Lace stole designed and knitted by me in 2007 from 3ply (light fingering) wool for a dear friend's 80th birthday

And, at the end of my blogging life (whenever that is) - this blog will remain exactly what a blog is: a web-based log of my interests, my family, my home, my life.

playing coy for the camera

Welcome to my world; I hope you find it a little bit interesting.

apology

To all members of the pseudo-KAL "Winter of Textured Knitting"

Please accept my apologies for being a 'non-present' host. I have good reasons for not having blogged in six weeks - reasons that I'd rather not share publicly. Let's just say that when I took a break from work for the winter vacation, I needed a break from blogging too.

The longer the break, the harder it was to get back into it. I'm sure you know how it is - any task [even those we enjoy] left undone, seems insurmountable and more procrastination follows [well, that's how it is for me anyway].

So, coming back has been difficult because I felt I owed you an explanation. Ultimately, though, I've realised that all I really need to do is what I did at the start - apologise; then hope that you will forgive me.

To those who contacted me by email during the past few weeks - thank you; your kindness and caring mean a great deal to me, more than you'll ever know.

As for "Winter of Textured Knitting", I will do a round up for July and August at the end of the month, which is also the end of the KAL.

B.W.O.

Through Knit Six I found my way to this blog - and now I'm Blogging Without Obligation. The last couple of months of 2007 were hectic and frankly, I just didn't feel like reading or writing blog posts. However, I did feel guilty - I don't like it when no-one reads/comments on my blog so I felt bad not reading/commenting on my friends' blogs, especially those who get infrequent comments. But I'm over it now: did I mention I'm blogging without obligation?