Looks like February went the way of October around here. The time away was used wisely, I promise. I passed my grad prelims and leveled up in crochet.
If that looks like Chanson en Crochet to you, you’re on the right track.
But, the awards! Carrie, Connie, and Claire all gave me the You Make My Day award1.
Claire’s blog, New York Minknit, is a new favorite of mine– elegantly realized knits and breathtaking photography. Connie is, in my opinion, the best new knit designer of 2007 (Ravelers, look here!), and I love reading about her designs and knitlife at Physics Knits. Carrie’s blog, ..And Another Thing! is my favorite kind of knitblog: good knitting process information nestled within fun writing. (and HELLO, hers is the best knitted octopus on the internet.) Anyway, I hear there’s some kind of implied “no givebacks” rule, but each of their blogs also makes my day, frequently on days that my day really needs some making.
I know it’s a bit late and the meme has quieted a bit, but I’d still like to pass the award on to a few people (especially since the links bar on the side of my page is so horrifically out of date).
Alligator of Knitosaurus. All of her finished knits are gold… I don’t know how she does it, but I always look forward to seeing the next one. Or a previous one, thanks to Time Machine Tuesday.2
Lisa of Steal This Sweater. Lisa is one of the few people on the internet who is successful in using knitting as a meaningful art form to express an ideology. I realize that sounds like dry praise3, but the blog isn’t at all boring like my description, haha.
Drew of drew-o-rama. I love Drew’s style, and I’m really interested in his recent campaign to try new construction methods for sweaters.
Kessa of Kessa In Stitches is amazingly prolific, and I really enjoy reading posts that relate to her design process. Extra thumbs up for excellent documentation: there are many fine “just incase you want to knit this” posts.
Erin of Dress A Day. If you have any interest whatsoever in the making or wearing of things by nonknitted methods, you should probably have this in your bloglines. Put it in your RSS reader now. I’ll wait.
Jessica of Rose-Kim Knits. The internet needs Thursdays Are For What The Hell Is This.4
Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution. this is my blog and I can give an award to an economics blog if I want to dammit
And though she’s gotten about a bazillion of these already, Kim of Yarn Abuse deserves another nod more than any site I can think of. Hilarious posts, and solid knitting construction information too. If you enjoy my humble blog in any way, you should definitely be reading Yarn Abuse.
These are just a few of the blogs that I’m always happy to see all boldface in my Bloglines feed page, though I’d happily give the award to everyone in my RSS list, everyone in the online knitting and crochet community, and everyone on Ravelry except for anyone who posts dishcloths to the Anthropologie group. Consider my day made.
1.This leads me to believe that my blog has found some kind of niche audience among people whose name begins with C.
1. Bonus: Green sweaters! Lots of ‘em!
2. For Sacramento-area KWOD 106.1 listeners: “Lisa’s blog is as compelling to me as my fine art collection. It is decaffeinated black coffee for my soul.”
3. I’m alarmed that What the hell is this looks exactly like my minisweater, except with spikes. What the hell, indeed.