I started blogging three years ago this May 7th. This is the part where I should say that the time has flown, but it seems like a long time since that first blog post. There have been many stitches (both knit and sewn) since that day. I have made many friends through blogging about my craft life and thankfully have not alienated you all with devotion to certain television shows or my irrational rants. It has also provided my brick and mortar friends with a way to stay on top of my daily life and complaints.
As I my blogiversary approaches, my blog will reach another milestone: my 1000th comment! To reward you all for sticking around (or for having just happened upon my blog today) I want to offer some anniversary prizes. While wool doesn't come along until the 7th anniversary, leather just doesn't cut it around these parts. Instead I offer you the following:
A $10 gift certificate for Zer0 Markers, generously donated by Ms. BMP herself. Aija makes some kick-ass stitch markers and row counters. I bought some for myself just last week. Mine are grey and blue freshwater pearls and are light as a feather. She has many configurations to choose from. I l-o-v-e mine.
A skein of Fearless Fibers Superwash sock yarn in Midnight Passion. I love this yarn, but in assessing my stash I realized that I cannot knit all of the sock yarn that I have so why not share the fibery wealth? Deb does amazing things with dye. This yarn comes in an extra big skein of 550 yards.
A needlecase from Caro of Splityarn. Caro's creations are both pretty and clever (pretty clever!). She recycles books and makes them into cases that can hold your circular needles, DPNs, and crochet hooks. If you don't win this one, you can find them along with stitch markers and mini-wallets at her Etsy site. And soon more needlecases will be available at Scout's Swag.
A $25 gift certificate for Spunky Eclectic's shop. Long ago I was Amy's secret pal and I have followed her site and her shop ever since. Her colorways are amazing and I have spent many an hour drooling over her yarns. Let me live vicariously through you!
Prizes will be given to the 1000th commenter and three other randomly drawn commenters. Aah, but you do have to sing just a little bit for your supper. To enter post a link to your first blog post. If you don't have a blog then post a link to the first blog that you remember reading. Enter by May 6th, I will announce winners on May 7th.
Congratulations on your blogiversary! I have not been blogging for long but here is my first blog entry.
Posted by: tracing | April 23, 2007 at 06:56 AM
Happy blogiversary. Here's my first post.
Posted by: Jessica | April 23, 2007 at 07:53 AM
http://nadsknittingblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_archive.html
Hello, this is my very first week of blogging- and that is almost exactly a year ago!!!!!
Posted by: Nadine | April 23, 2007 at 08:28 AM
Congratulations. My first blog post was just a few months ago, depicting my first-ever knitted item.
http://www.intertext.com/lauren/2006/12/first_project.html
Posted by: Lauren | April 23, 2007 at 09:19 AM
Congratulations on a 3-year blogiversary! That's an accomplishment to be proud of.
My first blog post is here:
http://crazyknittinglady.wordpress.com/2006/06/20/past-finished-objects/
and includes a couple of sweaters I had finished the previous winter. I deleted the actual first post long ago, since it was the usual "hi! this is me!" beginner blog post. I've been blogging less than a year but I know what you mean - it feels like longer!
Posted by: Glenna | April 23, 2007 at 09:40 AM
First: I think it's funny that you call them "brick and mortar friends." Second: Ditto this whole post. Third: Funny how 7 years of livejournal turned into a knitting blog. Also how that old saying about the more things change--well. there you go.
Posted by: Daphne | April 23, 2007 at 10:47 AM
Happy Blogiversary! My first post was WAY lame, it's funny how it takes a while to find a voice. The first blog I ever read was my husband's, waaaay back in 1995. I didn't know him then, and I didn't meet him for another 9 years after that, but he was the first blogger I knew (before it was called blogging even!)
Posted by: caro | April 23, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Holy-crapola!!!! This is a knitting motherlode. I loved your blog before there was the chace of winning cool stuff and I will love it long after prizes have been dispersed.
As you know I appreciate your love of Buffy, Arrested Development and a mutal admiration of the great Donal Logue (the first season of Grounded for Life rocked). I am thrilled beyond belief when I see new post here and know it will hold some little gem that will have me giggling like a stoned hyena watching Adult Swim.
Keep on blogging in the free world Big Sis!
Posted by: Bonnie | April 23, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Aww, this cruddy post isn't worth calling my first, though it's a hell of a candy wrapper.
http://www.knitthehellup.com/?m=200607
Congratulations on your blogiversary, and many happy returns!
Posted by: Stef | April 23, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Hi Nicole!
Happy Blogiversary!!!!! I started reading your blog after I discovered your podcast! I LOVE YOUR PODCAST! and have been missing it very much for the last couple weeks!
The first blog I remember reading was this one:
http://www.indigirl.com/blog/
..... probably in about 2001?
looking forward to hearing you tomorrow!
Posted by: lisaO | April 23, 2007 at 07:20 PM
Yay, congrats on this magic number milestone! My first blog post was really about an amazing travel adventure I had back in 2004. The knitting posts came right afterward. :)
Three cheers to you and here's to the next three years of creativity.
Posted by: Karma | April 23, 2007 at 07:31 PM
Way to stretch out the blogiversary celebrations! Can I just "accidently" hit the Post button 30 times to improve my chances? :)
Allow me to take you back to January 1, 2003, and this non-starter of a blog post. (The second post was really the real first post.)
Posted by: alison | April 23, 2007 at 07:48 PM
Way to bring out the knitters, promise of lots of goodies! I am a newbie blogger, here is the link to my first blog post: http://kiwiknitter.blogspot.com/2007/01/where-do-i-starthellosomeoneanyoneanyon.html.
Thanks for what you do in your podcast, it is great and I thoroughly enjoy each episode.
Posted by: Tanya | April 23, 2007 at 11:04 PM
First off, Happy Blogiversary! I celebrated my 2nd year of blogging a few weeks ago. I foun your blog sometime last year when you declared your list of UFOs and that you were going to finish them all. That was quite interesting to me and I've been reading but lurking, bad, bad me. I didn't just comment to enter a contest, but thought it was a good time to say hello and I think your contest idea is unique. My first blog post can be found here. Thanks! I've enjoyed reading your blog and until I read some of your comments, I forgot you're doing a podcast too. I just started listening to Stash and Burn this weekend and I really enjoy it too! Coolness!
Posted by: Wanda | April 24, 2007 at 05:21 AM
Happy Blogiversary. I don't think I've every commented on your blog, but I read often. Sorry to be a lurker!
My first post wasn't too long ago. Here it is.
Posted by: Betsy | April 24, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Happy Blogiversary! My first post is here: http://nothingbutknit.blog-city.com/well_here_i_am.htm
Posted by: Karen | April 24, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Hi -- Congrats on your anniversary. I am a San Francisco knitter and HUGE fan of your podcast. In fact, I am downloading your new episode now. (If you see a woman running in Laurel Heights with a Golden Retriever listening intently to her iPod, that's me, listening to you and Jenny!) I do not have a blog but the blog that got me hooked is http://www.elizabethklett.com/knit.html. Leslie
Posted by: Leslie | April 24, 2007 at 11:24 AM
First blog I followed was rickmercer.com/blog. It's political and a Canadian thing. Lastest blog I'm following is yours, of course. Love the podcast, welcome back. (I hope I win the sock yarn!)
Posted by: Patti | April 24, 2007 at 12:00 PM
congratulations on your blog milestone and contest give away. Here is the link to my first blog post way back in February 2003.
Posted by: Melanie Watts | April 24, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Congratulations on the blogthday! My first blog post is here (http://exercisebeforeknitting.blogspot.com/2005/12/this-is-my-first-foray-into-blog-world.html) but please don't read it because it was so lame. :-) Isn't everyone's first post a bit lame?
Posted by: Elinor | April 24, 2007 at 06:38 PM
Love your podcast (it's in my 'top 3' an dhave missed you guys) and just recently found your blog. Congrats on the big milestone!
Posted by: JavaNut | April 24, 2007 at 07:11 PM
*sings loud and lustily* HAAPPYY BLOG-BIRFFDAY TO YOUUUUUUU!! Hehehe I'm a recent and avid reader - love your podcast, found your blog via those airwaves and loving it! Here's to another 3 years! My blog is rather new, as is my knitting history, my first (very excited!) blog post is here - http://knit-nutt.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html :)
Posted by: Sasha | April 24, 2007 at 08:13 PM
Your podcast is lots of fun!
The first blog that I remember reading belongs to one of my friends: mommaonthebrink.blog.com
hrezendes@yahoo.com
Posted by: Heidi | April 24, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Happy Blogiversary!!
Here is my first blog post. Kinda boring because I was just testing out this whole blog thing at the time. Now I am addicted!
http://fiberartsbyteri.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome.html
Posted by: Teri | April 24, 2007 at 10:57 PM
This is a wonderful and generous idea. I can't imagine how you're keeping track of who that 1000th commenter is, but that's just not the way my brain works. My blog is not really that much about knitting, but is becoming more about knitting as my life becomes more filled with wooly ideas.
Posted by: Andy B | April 24, 2007 at 11:06 PM