Anniversary

The first post on this blog appeared on Wednesday 13th January 2010.  Seven years ago.  Isn't that amazing?  I'm amazed, anyway.  I never expected to be still writing blog posts.  The original idea was just to find out something about blogs and blogging by trying it for myself - I'm sure I didn't imagine that I would carry on blogging for so long.

In that first post, I showed this photo of a Fair Isle pullover I knitted for John in the early 80s, before I stopped knitting for a long long time. Since 2010, the pullover has had an exciting time - I lent it to Lydia who used to own Spun in Huddersfield (still open, but with a new owner).  She started to sell Jamieson's Shetland, and wanted some examples of Fair Isle knitting to inspire customers.  I lent her John's pullover, and a sweater from the same book by Sarah Don that I had knitted for myself, and they were on display in the shop for most of a year.  Lydia said that many customers admired them, and several wanted to buy the pullover.  Now we have them both back at home, I think perhaps we ought to start wearing them again....

Back to my anniversary.  Now that I've been writing this blog for seven years, I can see that I have managed to write about 70 posts a year.  It's been quite consistent - the minimum is 66, the maximum 76.  This is despite my best intentions to write more often.  Must try harder, and I'll see how I've done this time next year.