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.

problems with Blogger

Is it only me or is it a universal problem? Blogger won't upload photos if I have it set on "updated" editor. So, after reading Blogger help, I changed my settings to "old editor". Now I type my post and add photos in "old editor". Then I change the settings to "updated editor" so that I can add captions to my photos.

Notes to self:

• Don't fuss with the format of your post in "old editor", because when you change to to "updated editor" the formatting will all be lost.
• And make sure you add all your photos the first time, otherwise you'll have to format all over again!

What a drag!

To post or not to post?

I keep writing posts and saving them, waiting to add photos and not getting around to it.

We're redecorating and this place is mad! We had three weeks to clean, repair and paint all the walls, doors and woodwork before new flooring and carpets are laid at the end of next week. Sounds easy? Prior to taking on this ridiculous commitment, DD and I both injured our shoulders so can't help and WM works 8 hours a day, six days a week! The good news is the physio said I'm still allowed to knit! Yay!!

Anyway, back to my comment about posting... despite all the madness, I'm going to post - with or without photos - whenever I have something to say! After all, I can always add photos later!!