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| lindyloop |
2 years!I can't believe how fast time goes as it was my blogs 2nd birthday last week.(there is a birthday competition on it if you want to enter) When I look back at the start of it it looks so boring, and I really think that it helps me finish stuff. But I am starting to wonder whether to keep it up. I love the interaction with other knitters but how long do you think a blog should go on before it gets very samey? Is mine getting boring? I would really appreciate a critique of it!! I partly blog for myself but also for other people to tell me what they think of my knitting, should I join a real knitting club and not live in a land of virtual reality!!!? Lin x |
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| KnittingLadybird |
I like your blog. I think your pics are great...keep going!
I still keep adding to mine though sometimes I wonder why 
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| pictish |
I love your blog too and always find it interesting!!!  I just go through phases where I read blogs all the time and blog and other times where I just don't seem to have time 
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| gilraen |
Happy blogiversary  I'm another regular avid reader of your blog too
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| modelwidow |
The main thing is whether you enjoy your blog, but judging by the number of comments I'd say others do anyway. I have to admit I often read it but am ashamed to say I am lazy about commenting, sorry 
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| Auntie Noo |
I love reading your blog too - but you should only keep it up if YOU enjoy it. I love reading back over mine and seeing what I was doing this time last year etc, what the weather was like, what I was knitting etc, so although I really love getting comments, and am always chuffed when someone takes the time, I also just keep it for me...... but then I'm strange! | ||||
| melody yarns |
I don't have a lot of free time to read other people's blogs unfortunately... and I keep my blog for me. But it's certainly helped me to keep my hand in with technology and suchlike and it is good to be able to see what you were knitting last year as Noo pionted out.
Whether anyone reads my blog is another matter! 
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| pictish |
I do!!
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| lindyloop |
Auntie Noo, you are right. I love doing my blog and missed it this holiday so posted when I was meant to be away!
I love comments too but don't expect them, if you know what I mean! Its like another hobby with the knitting! I have learnt so much techno stuff too Debs, its worth it to keep up with the times. Lin x |
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| melody yarns |
Read mine? Really? wow!! Thanks! I know some peeps do cos of the traffic reports but I never know whether people stumble on it and then think 'Ack, rubbish!' cos it is quite frankly!
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| KnittingLadybird |
Debs...yours is a lovely little blog. I bob in most peeps blogs (I don't always comment if i'm in read everyones mode ). Personally my blog like most folks is just a journal of things i've done/made. And when I need a kick up the arse I use mine to spur me on (remember mams cardy? that wouldn't have been finished with your online support via my blog) I'm no yarnharlot but nevermind eh?
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| Aknita |
I like your blog very much Lin, and am always very envious of your fabulous photos and eye for colour.
I like different blogs for different reasons. Noo's blog is one of my haunts, I love reading about Spot and the chickens. I love Gilraen's too, Friday wouldn't be Friday without a bit of yarn pron! Debs - I visit your blog too, and yours Linz. And yours too Mrs Pictish but it hasn't been updated for a while............................. I like my blog too and love looking back like Noo. I have sometimes thought about not bothering with it, and indeed often wonder who in their right mind would want to read it, but it's my little space and I like it! I'm also a little less of a techno phobe than I was as a result of blogging. I just wish I could work out how to know when people's blogs udated themselves. edited to add have discovered reading this thread that Modelwidow has a blog - sometimes I think I go around with my eyes closed 
Lovely holiday photos
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| pictish |
I know I sometimes just feel I'm saying the same things twice cos I put most things here - I need to get into a blogging frame of mind I suppose
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| n |
I think that a blog is like a diary... you could make it private you know, and just keep it for yourself as a record of your creative journey.
There is a web based thing called Blurb which will print your blog and send you a properly bound version. I think this is very cool because it keeps all the comments, and turns it into something which could be passed on to the next generation. So much of our recording is virtual now, and this is a way of adding to out textile and social heritage. It's not cheap mind you, but I do think it's really important to preserve what we have or there will be no "ordinary" people's history in the future. However, I love your blog and I always read it, if that helps. n |
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| dreamcatcher |
I have got very behind with blog reading in recent months, I am trying to keep up! I haven't posted to mine since May, but I've not had any FOs or nearing FOs as I wasn't doing as much knitting for a while. Too tired after work, but am getting back in the swing now. Hoping to update it in the next week or so.
I do read all the blogs mentioned so far, I think! Apologies for my lack of commenting recently, I always try to comment when reading but was just a bit overwhelmed. |
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| lindyloop |
I have all your blogs on my bloglines which is so handy to see who has updated ... except for n's, I go in via the shop which is an excuse for a little look at all the yarn!!
I don't think that it would be feasable to comment all the time on blogs (especially since I read over 150!!!!) but its funny how you kind of see the people as people you "know" a little. Noo, how are your silkies, haven't seen them for a while? Lin x |
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| n |
This has got me thinking actually.
I love the blurb idea but it won't work with my old blog, the platform isn't supported, as they say. But I can import the blog a posting at a time into Pages, the apple WP program, and from there I can order a Book version from apple, so I think I may ask for that for my birthday/Christmas. n (Thank you for going through the shop... I love it when the yarns and fibres get a little stroking and fondling!) |
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| lindyloop |
Thats clever, I may do that one day too. (I have a squidge too and a tester of the Udder cream! ) Lin x |
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| pictish |
I always do and I enjoy it honestly!! And post a comment sometimes as you know but I have read most of your posts - you see you'll have to be careful what you say now
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| Auntie Noo |
Mr Silkie is in the freezer! (sorry to any vegetarians here!) but I needed to make sure that we could do the deed before I put hatching eggs under Mrs SIlkie as all cockerals will be for the table - Having said that, Mrs Silkie is refusing to go broody....... so it may be a long wait! Thanks for asking, I was thinking the other day that my blog has been a little livestock free lately. I will remedy that soon!
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| lindyloop |
I wondered if that was the case, didn't like to say!!! I hope he is tasty and the mrs brings eggs! Lin x |
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| modelwidow |
Thank you, Aknita, it really was a lovely holiday *sigh* And as for Blurb, I used that and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was, how quickly it came and I didn't feel it was too expensive for what it was ( I had the soft cover 7"x7" square one), I had two years worth printed and it cost about £16, and having just spent £8.99 on a blank diary for a pressie I didn't think that was bad. |
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| n |
I thought it was more than that!
That's pretty good value isn't it? |
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