Happy blogiversary to the craft blog!

I almost forgot: Today is this blog's blogiversary! Last year I did forget, though, so to celebrate my lack of brainlessness, I shall post a photo of my latest Navajo-plied yarn. I spun the singles during last year's Tour de Fleece and *whistles innocently* have been a terrible slacker about getting back to plying it. But one bobbin is done, and I have one more bobbin to go. (Not making any bets on how long it's going to take me to get to it, though.)

I love how it looks all round and squishy (and how it is all round and squishy, too ;)), like all the pictures of awesome hand-dyed sock yarn I see on Etsy:


Okay, maybe I'll share two pictures of squishy Merino yarn. ;)


And heck ... you know what? Through the end of the day I'll offer free shipping on anything in my Etsy shop. Just enter the coupon code BLOGGY when you check out. :D

Woohoo!

The blog gets a makeover

Notice anything different? Of course you do, assuming you've been here before. ;) Yep — the blog finally has a custom background and banner, in a nice new template. I'm a month late for my blogiversary, but that's not so bad, for me.

Miss the old blog? Aww. Well, here's a little screenshot — a very little screenshot, because I forgot to take one before I changed the blog, and I had to go to my Ravelry profile and get the thumbnail image there. ;)



AND I have shiny new Disqus comments, so that we can all reply to each other and have nice little conversations, if we like. No more half-baked Blogger comments. Why don't you leave a fresh comment about what you like about the new layout, and what you don't like so much, and try out the snazzy new system? ;D

A-testing I will go...

Just joined the test knitting group for Gardiner Yarn Works -- hurrah. :D I found them through Ravelry, which is teh cool.

I need to revamp the blog look. I was lazy when I started this thing, as I just wanted a place to blether immediately, but if my luck pattern holds, I may have time to revamp sometime in the next week. Yay, I say, again.

Blog cleanup

Removing a couple of old buttons from the left sidebar, including the Swapmeet one, the Skeinalong one, Knitters' Tea Swap, Sock Wars, and Socktoberfest. I also nixed the "UFOs ... wooeeeooo" page element from the same sidebar, since I wasn't really using it. I can always put it back if I miss it. ;)

There. That makes more room for things I'm actually doing right now. :D