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The Yarn Harlot's 10th Anniversary

The Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee wrote it was 10 years ago on January 23, 2004 she posted her first blog entry.  That first post listed the reasons she believed she met the qualifications to actually blog about knitting. (Feel free to click on the word Yarn Harlot above to see her blogiversary post and first blog entry above to read her first post.)


The new post states Stephanie has written over 2,000 posts, started l-o-n-g before Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Ravelry and was forced to learn some HTML and spam control along the way.  The other, less writing intensive options, have cannibalized readers and writers away from the knitting blogosphere; but needless to say, Stephanie blogs on because she has created a huge community of like-minded followers.  Her popularity is very widespread and her followers, although mainly North American, do extend into the entire world.

Stephanie looks as if she has a halo surrounding her head
All this got me thinking again about why I'm blogging.  My reasoning is quite different from the Yarn Harlot's for blogging.  It is not an attempt for me to create a knitting community, although I admit as people find out about my knitting and the blog, they are much more likely to talk to me (albeit face-to-face) about all things yarn.

For me the blog is a repository, a more personal place where I can express thoughts about knitting and life.  Perhaps it is that very difference that causes readers of my blog to not comment, what they read is clearly personal.  This blog allows me to remember what I've created, what material and pattern was used and how long ago a project was actually started.  How could anyone comment on such things?

Don't get me wrong, being able to just throw my rather random thoughts out there without comment is wonderful.  So much of everything else I write is commented on, that the relative silence here is very much appreciated.  So thank you for being voyeuristic, just as I am in so many of the other knit writing I read. As I post this Stephanie has over 500 comments to her 10th blogiversary post and it will only grow over time. That's an incredible number considering the average blog reader will not say a thing.

So true to form, instead of placing a comment on the Yarn Harlot's blog, I'm writing about her post here.  Ten years of knitting, writing, photographing, commenting about life is a very long time.  Stephanie deserves all the congrats she can get.  I, one of a battalion of knitters, am very happy she continues to write.  

And even though blogging appears to be losing it cache, I plan to be blogging on, or whatever new way(s) of doing this develop over time, to celebrate my own 10th blogiversary.  It means nearly 8 more years of writing and that my friends certainly reads like a long-term commitment to me.


   



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