{"id":596,"date":"2012-02-18T20:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2012-03-19T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T19:20:21","slug":"10th-blogiversary-and-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"10th Blogiversary and Competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can barely believe it but this blog is ten years old! Ten years ago I was obsessed with knitting. It was a relatively new obsession for me as I’d only picked up my first knitting magazine, the Fall 2002 issue of Interweave Knits, a few months earlier. I couldn’t believe my luck when I found out that there were knitting blogs as well. There weren’t a great deal around back then, I remember that Chic Knits<\/a> was one of my regular haunts, and I could easily catch up on them every evening.<\/p>\n

Before knitting came into my life I’d often pondered having a blog but I’d not been too sure what I would write about. I did buy my own domain name in 2000 and hadn’t really done a geat deal with it, so having a knitting blog seemed perfect. I could write about my craft and as a bonus I’d have a record of my work too.<\/p>\n

I still have to fix my archives so I can’t link to that first entry just yet but I do still remember the nerves I had writing that first post. Would anyone read it? The knitting blog community was small and loyal and I fit right in. Comments didn’t exist at that point so we would email other if we liked a post and I made many friends within the group. I joined the Knitting bloggers webring and got to know my neighbours. Soon we were exchanging parcels via snail mail. The friendliness of the crafty bloggers has always been a delight.<\/p>\n

Ten years on, I still love knitting but this is more of a crafting blog despite the majority of posts being tagged “knitting”. My other loves of jewellery making and sewing have pushed back in \ud83d\ude09 It’s also been a joy to see the rise of sewing blogs. When I was first sewing in 2000 there were very fewblogs with any sewing ontent. I was so pleased to find Sew Wrong<\/a>, Mena of The Sew Weekly<\/a>‘s first venture in sewing blogdom. In 2012 there are countless craft related blogs to read and to be honest I do feel rather guilty because I don’t keep up with my blog reading as much as I used to. I still hope that one day I’ll catch up but somehow I don’t believe it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Before I forget, something rather unexpected happened today, my gmail account was hacked. Someone got into it in the early hours of the morning and attempted to spam my address book with a link to some crappy t-shirt site. Fortunately Google’s security settings detected the hacking and stopped those emails being sent. It’s been a massive pain going and changing the passwords for all the sites I use but it’s also been a wake up call that I should have changed it more often.<\/p>\n

But back to nicer things – to celebrate my 10th blogiversary I’ve decided to run a little competition \ud83d\ude42 I’m giving away a copy of Norwegian Knitting Designs<\/a>\"\". This is the recent paperback version of Norsk Strikkedesign. I bought a hardcopy version some years ago. It’s full of amazing colour work knitting patterns and it could be yours!<\/p>\n

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You could win this!<\/p><\/div>\n

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In order to enter all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. I’ll close the comments in a month’s time and then pick the winner using a random number generator. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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