Blog week overview

With the 3rd Knitting and Crochet Blog Week now behind us - though I am still trying to catch up on reading posts.  I thought I'd take a look at which were the most popular posts. Blogger tells me the following.

Day One - Colour Lovers - this one got 12 comments and 31 page views
Day Two -  Photography Challenge - this got 12 comments and 57 page views
Day Three - I went with the Wildcard Craft your Perfect Day -  this one got 11 comments and 22 page views
Day Four - Knitter for All Seasons - 15 comments and 24 page views
Day Five - Something Different - 26 comments and 133 page views
Day Six - Improving your Skillset - 9 comments and 31 page views
Day Seven - Crafting Balance - 5 comments and 23 page views

As you can see Day Five got the most comments and views, I really enjoyed putting this one together.  I also learnt quite a bit too. Days Three & Four got the bigger ratio of comments to views. 

I know for myself, that the weekend meant that I wasn't able to read/comment on as many posts, and that there are still many I haven't got too yet.  It actually all gets a bit overwhelming after a while.  I have only checked out those bloggers that posted their links on Ravelry, there are just TOO many to Goggle with the tags.  Maybe one day when I have nothing better to do.

I picked up a few new followers, welcome to you.  I am also following a few new sites too.

I did prepare my draft posts in advance, tweeked and scheduled them for publication, as last year I found it too difficult to post on a daily basis.  It is surprising just how much time it takes to put these posts together and it amazes me just how detailed some people make their posts, you must have lots of spare time.

So all in all a very enjoyable week, and one I hope to participate in again next year.  Who knows I my have some crochet projects to post about

Day 7 - Crafting Balance

Are you a knitter or a crocheter, or are you a bit of both? If you are monogamous in your yarn-based crafting, is it because you do not enjoy the other craft or have you simply never given yourself the push to learn it? Is it because the items that you best enjoy crafting are more suited to the needles or the hook? Do you plan on ever trying to take up and fully learn the other craft? If you are equally comfortable knitting as you are crocheting, how do you balance both crafts? Do you always have projects of each on the go, or do you go through periods of favouring one over the other? How did you come to learn and love your craft(s)?

I'm a knitter - once a knitter always a knitter.  As I said on yesterday's post, crochet is something I need and will master.  But for know knitting fulfils me.

I was taught to knit by my mother while at primary school, we also did basic knitting in school, and at an after-school girls group.  I only ever knitted squares and simple scarfs.  As the years went by other things took over and I lost interest.  Can you believe it!   It was my husband's Granny that got me back into knitting.  He had asked her to make him a hat for work and she said "no, you have a wife get her to knit you one".  So I sat down with her and by the end of the afternoon I was half way through my first hat, and the rest as they say is history. 

This is the last post for Knitting & Crochet Blog Week 2012 - I have enjoyed writing, reading and commenting.  Thanks should go to Eskimimi for organising this event again.  I hope that those of you that have visited my blog will pop back from time to time to see what I am up to.  I certainly have visited some brilliant blogs and plan to increase my reading list.  Just need to make more time in my day to catch up on everyone.

Knitting & Crochet Blog Week 2012 - Day One - Colour Lovers

Welcome to 2012's Knitting & Crochet Blog week,  I hope that I can keep up with everything that will be going on. There will be 100's of posts to read, it may take a while.

Day 1 - Colour Lovers -

Colour is one of our greatest expressions of ourselves when we choose to knit or crochet, so how do you choose what colours you buy and crochet or knit with. Have a look through your stash and see if there is a predominance of one colour. Do the same with your finished projects - do they match? Do you love a rainbow of bright hues, or more subdued tones. How much attention do you pay to the original colour that a garment is knit in when you see a pattern? Tell readers about your love or confusion over colour.

Well folks here is my stash, as you can see there is a fairly good mix of colours, but the red and blue spectrums seem to be the largest.  I knit alot for babies and children so this seems to be the reason for that.

If knitting for myself I tend to go fairly safe, usually dark or neutral. Rarely do I knit the same colour as the pattern though saying that my last project was fairly close to the pattern.  I wish I could be more adventurous in colours for me.

I like to adapt patterns for children to make them individual, adding a stripe or a bit of colour work just to make them a bit different. 

If you look through my projects My project page, you will see that my knitting goes in colour phases too. 

I hope I have done justice to Day One's topic.  Looking forward to seeing what everyone else does with it.

This is the topic for Day 2 - Photography Challenge Day!


Today challenges you to be creative with your photography, and get yourself in with the chance to win the photography prize. Taking interesting photographs in this instance isn't about flashy cameras or a great deal of technical know-how, it's about setting up a story or scene in a photograph and capturing something imaginative. Your photograph(s) should feature something related to your craft, so that might be either a knitted or crocheted item, yarn, or one of your craft tools. One example of setting a scene would be to photograph a girl in a knitted red cape walking through the woodlands with a basket of goodies, as in the Red Riding Hood tale, or you might photograph a knitted gnome hiding among the flowers in your garden. Photo editing is permitted for competition photos. Here are a few examples of my own photographs to illustrate an imaginative use of photography, but you can do much better than these...