There’s quiet music playing in the kitchen. I’ve got a cup of tea and it’s snowing. My sweater knitting is calling me, but the house is a mess so really I should clean instead of knit, but I think we all know how that’s going to end, don’t we?
Truthfully I’ve got to much to do here at my desk to do either, but I’m bucking the feeling of being “behind” on that sweater and want to make some progress. I made a catastrophic error knitting it the first time (just an extra hundred stitches or so, no big deal. Chest measurement was 87″ instead of 40″. Whatever) and I had to rip the whole thing out, right back to the cast on, and in that moment it lost some of its charm, you know what I mean? It’s a super fun knit and I keep mumbling things to myself like “a knit so nice I’ll do it twice” but the truth is that I sort of think of it as a traitor now. Yesterday I brought different yarn downstairs and came within a hair of winding it to make a different sweater before I pulled myself together and reminded myself just how much fun I had the first time, and that technically if I make the big mistake on a piece of knitting that makes me the problem, not the sweater.
The sweater in question- Pattern is the Field Sweater, and yarn Lexington from The Artful Ewe.
When I put away that other yarn (not very far away, I tell you that) it occurred to me that this was quite Yarn Harlotish, blaming a project for my essential nature and trying to start another one instead of being monogamous, and that this is one of the things that has stayed the same over the last twenty years, because poppets, I have been reflecting a lot on things that have changed and things that have stayed the same over the last twenty years, and that’s because today is my 20th Blogiversary.
Twenty years since the day that Ken gave me this blog and explained that the outlet and knitters I were looking for were on the other side of this keyboard, and he was right. That’s something that’s stayed absolutely the same. The path to the knitters I’m interested in is still the internet – that’s the key that’s unlocked everything – although what shape of internet is another question entirely. These days I feel like most knitters want videos and reels more than pictures and words, so you you can find me making little Harlot mini movies (I’m sure that’s going to be a nightmare in a search engine) over at Patreon, and little snips of my life show up on instagram all the time, of course. (If you ever worry I’ve ceased to be, check there.)
Twenty years ago the pace of my life was different -I had little kids and a job as a doula and a lactation consultant and I worked inside and outside my home and I was just starting a writing and teaching and speaking career and now… my girls are grown and making lives of their own. I’m a grandmother and I work at home most of the time, and somehow I feel busier now than I did then, although I’m not sure how that’s possible. I feel like the younger me had more hours in her day, she got more done… How did I do all those things? (I suspect the answer is that I was twenty years younger. I spend a lot of time squinting at things now, maybe that’s taking more time than I think.)
Over the years there’s been thousands and thousands of times that I’ve sat here – well, if “here” is at the keyboard- I’ve blogged from all over my house, from parks, from airports, from holiday, from hospitals, from at least seven countries, from cities all over North America, from planes, from trains, from automobiles, from tents, from deathbeds, from birthbeds, and from everywhere that I was, every time I did it, I was reaching out for people, people like you who understood me and the things I cared about, even if that was the difficulty of getting through a buttonband, or a family tragedy. (They can both take a toll, as we all know.)
In twenty years, there has never, ever, been one time that when I wrote to you that you didn’t write back. Although who answered that horn when I blew it has sometimes come as a surprise. You’ve been wonderful, funny, strange (sometimes all of that at once) you’ve been supportive, critical, inventive, realistic, creative… there were even one or two of you that were scary. There are those of you – so many of you, that have gone on to be real world friends, knitters I met, knitters I corresponded with… there are so many of you that I can not go to any knitting place and not find someone I know something about, or who’s name rings a bell from the comments, or who’s got a picture of us together from some time in the last two decades. I have been blogging so long, that when I look back at the early posts it’s even a visit to so many people who are gone now – not just family and friends, but knitters and colleagues, gone to the great big yarn store in the sky. Change – whether any of us wanted it or not, has happened.
Isn’t it strange then, that with all that change in who is reading and when and where I’m posting, or how often I am called here to talk to you, I still think of you as The Blog. An amorphous collaboration that is here, in this little box, living your own lives, struggling through your own losses and triumphs and buttonbands, but always… here. I don’t know how many of you (because I do think of you as a collective, like The Borg but with more yarn) have been here the whole twenty years. Probably not many, but it turns out it doesn’t matter, one of you, all of you, you are my darling Blog and I am so incredibly grateful to you for everything.
There are not words for how you have shaped my life. I cannot possibly explain what it is to know that you are there, for years and years and years. To have a place I can call out to, to know I will always be answered and (mostly) understood, has been a tremendous privilege and an honour and you should know that it has always, always made me feel so… lucky. I deserve this no more than anyone else does, and I want to thank you for every single time you read, or commented, or donated to something I cared about, or said that you cared, no matter how you did it.
In my life, like in every life, there have been periods of profound darkness. Know that in those times, you have often been my light and touchstone, my hope and energy, my people, my friends and my community. I don’t know how often I will be in this space. Everything changes all the time, and who knows what turn of the wheel will bring me back, but I know you’re here and can’t imagine not coming. You’ll have to lean into the element of surprise.
Thank you for a wonderful, incredible 20 years.
(PS. Another thing that isn’t changing- it’s become a tradition to kick off my fundraising for the Bike Rally on my Blogiversary, and even though I’m closer to 60 than 50 I’m planning on riding again. In years gone by, kind readers have donated the number of years I’ve been blogging as a way of celebrating. This year would be $20 for twenty years. It won’t freak out PWA as much as getting a bunch of $19 donations did, but you can’t have everything. You can click here if you’re feeling it.)
I think I’ve been around for all twenty! You were my first! I still love reading blogs but also check Instagram. Thank you for all the entertaining words, the good, bad and sad. We all have them and we all appreciate yours. I’ve laughed and cried through them all.
Next month will be my 13th anniversary as a knitter and yours was the first knitting blog I found. I have read every one of your posts. You bring so much love, respect, and kindness to the world in this space as well as your personal life that you generously share with us. Thank you and happy blogiversary!
I found you in 2005 and immediately read all the back posts of your blog. So, not quite from the beginning, but close. Yours is the last one I still check. I even go back and revisit some posts, like the time you tried to make yarn out of that goat, or when Joe got his truck stuck. Since I had children a few years ago, the post about how you’re a “mean mom” has become a favorite as well. There’s always a post from you to help make my day better. Thank you for sharing your life with us for so long.
Ohmygosh me too except I found it in 2007. The truck one was hilarious. And I too have broken coffee makers because I need coffee to make coffee.
I like to go back and re-read once in a while just for fun by also because there’s some skill lessons in there that I wasn’t ready for at the time that I’m finally growing into.
This blog, and Steph, made me a much more adventurous knitter and more forgiving of myself. The whole relax, it’s yarn, you’re not defusing a bomb concept was a game changer for me.
Cheers to 20 years!
Congratulations on your blogversary! I’ve been checking here since August of 2023 and not finding you. I was getting pretty concerned. It’s good to hear from you again! Thank you for sharing so much of yourself, life, family and knitting with us! You have brought much joy to my life. I never read a book more than once; except yours. I’ve read them multiple times, especially when I need to laugh. God bless you and you’ve been missed!
Happy Blogiversary!
While I was reading this post, I was so scared that you were gearing up to an official “I’m quitting”… I know things change, but I miss the old blogging times (and many of the bloggers I used to follow) and I’m glad you’re still around sometimes.
Thank you so much for sharing your life and knitting for all those years. I’ll be here whenever you chose to pop in.
I have been around since i was in high school, and I wasn’t allowed to use the computer for more than 30 minutes per week. Yours was always the first website I checked in my precious minutes!
Also, small note, not a parenting strategy I would recommend, my computer skills had to do a big catch up in college. The knitting skills? Way ahead of the curve.
I so enjoy your posts and your energy, productivity, creativity, dedication and organization never cease to amaze me. Congratulations on 20 years. Looking forward to the next 20! ❤️
I’ve been with you for maybe 19 of the 20 years, and have met you enough times at classes and retreats that I feel like I know you. Please, please don’t give up writing the blog for videos or other things. I need to hear your voice through the words that you write. I have all of your books and reread them periodically, just to remind myself that there are a lot of us out there and that crafting, in any form, is universal. I’ve missed you.
When I started my own blog in 2006, it was because I was inspired by reading yours and a few others, so I’ve been around that long! Wow, it’s a long time, eh? I admit to preferring print to videos, but you’re not wrong that the majority seems to be preferring the live action. I’m always glad to read what you write, anyway.
Twenty years ago I was a new knitter with a newborn and a three year old. I needed community and encouragement. That it came with some genuine humor was even better. I wasn’t here at the very, very start, but I came as quickly as I could. And I have stayed. It’s been great.
Thank you for always speaking your heart. You do this so well thought through and with such humor. You are a voice of sanity, compassion and calm in this loud world. I do follow you on instagram and Patreon but I really miss the long blog posts from the past. I understand things change but I’ll still have a tab open on my phone with your blog just in case you find the time to write to The Blog. I’ll keep rereading your old posts until then.
Congratulations! I hope that you’ll be around for at least another 20!!! No matter if your posts may be few or far between – it’s always like catching up with a dear friend.
Happy Blogiversary! May I tell you my favorite Yarn Harlot moment? It was when Joe was out of town and you did a “While You Were Out”-style redo of your bedroom. You somehow managed to redo a whole room and blog about it at the same time, and it was a wild ride – especially when the bag full of wood shavings from the floor started to smoke alarmingly, and you threw it out into the snow, and it was still out there smoldering, and … anyway, I laughed so hard that my son (11 or 12 at the time) asked what I was reading, and I read the post out loud to him, between gales of hysterical laughter from both of us.
I should go find those posts. 🙂 Lots of love to you, and thanks for 20 years (well, 18 for me) of laughter and tears and wisdom and the whole thing.
Help! When was that? I need a laugh. I’m forgetting things & it distresses me to think I ‘ve missed a post from our dear Harlot.
I haven’t been around for all 20 years but I’ve been here for many…and have always appreciated your humor, advice, and all-around good sense! Thank you for sharing with us!
Happy Blogaversary to you and to all of us who hang out here supporting each other, laughing and crying together, then laughing through tears. There are posts I think of often, and parts of your books and other writing. Your wisdom and kindness as a teacher. I have a book that lives at my bedside, Knit Lit, a book of knitterly essays. If I end my day in a sour mood, I pick up that book and read your story about Our Heroine, ice skating and knitting…with white yarn, in a snowy and icy setting, and obliviously dropping the ball, skating away, and the kid getting closelined. Oh my gosh I laugh and laugh, sometimes waking my partner with the muffled noise, and then I’m right again. Thank you for all your stories, and we’re here when you’re ready to post again. (I also follow on IG, but love the long form here…) Knit on!
Yes, my favorite story/essay is the ice skating while knitting! I have been reading this blog for almost 20 years, my BFF taught me how to make mittens (’98ish) and turned me on to you, too. We got to meet you at your talk in NYC (early 2000’s) at a department store (can’t remember the name & searching the Internet didn’t help!). I follow you on IG which makes me so happy (knitting & vegan recipes!) Thank you for everything!
Congratulations on the 20 years! I’m not sure when I started reading, but it was many years ago. Thanks for all the laughter (and the tears) and for sharing a part of yourself with all of us.
Congratulations on 20 years! I have been around since both of our children were little and have had so much laughter and tears thru your posts. Sadly , both of us share the loss of a grandchild and just that knowledge of not being alone in this type of loss makes me feel comforted. I think of you often and send you and Meg love and light. I hope your Charlotte and my Rowan are somewhere in heaven playing together. ❤️
I started reading in 05 or 06, I still remember sitting in my dorm room carefully following your stock recipe from Knitting Rules. I still have those socks, too!
Thanks for all the years of knitting and life advice – it’s come in handy in so many ways. ❤️
I’ve read every single post. I found you a few years in, and went back and got caught up. I forget about this blog now, and it isn’t until I see an insta post I think to come check back here. But it’s nice to see you wherever you post 🙂
Congrats on a beautiful 20 years!!
I’ve only been around since February 2019, when I discovered (during a snowstorm) that there have been KNITTING RETREATS in my beloved Port Ludlow hometown for years and I had NO IDEA!
I attended the June 2019 retreat and loved every minute! Then Covid…I hope to attend this year.
I remember that rare PNW snowstorm because my grandson was born shortly after that lovely storm, and he will be 5 years old this February 16th.
I feel so fortunate to have discovered you and the Strung Along groups…Thank You!!
I’ve been here for all 20 years. So many similarities in our changes. Looking forward to another 20, thank you for everything!!
I’ve been here since the very beginning. I was in graduate school for my MSW at the time, and the blog was a lovely touchstone while I was both attending school and working full time (yikes, how did I do that?!). Thank you for being the voice and respite that I’ve turned to time and time again. I’m so grateful.
I may have shown up a little late, but it’s been around 20 years for sure, and you (and all of us!) are just getting better! Your writing – here on the blog, on the ‘gram, and in your books – is still so wonderful! And your Patreon videos are hilarious, inspirational, and informative, in equal measure.
The Blog sure loves you right back!
On the bus, coming home from work, and there are tears running down my face. Yes, Steph, we have been there for you, and you have been there for us. To make us laugh and cry, to teach us, to see us, really see us. I have another knitter on my staff, who is of our age, and I knew, last week, when she needed a giggle that if I asked her if she knew who the Yarn Harlot was, she would say yes. I asked, she did, and I showed her the “oversized” sweater, which was exactly what she needed. It’s an ecosystem, in all its symbiotic beauty. Thank you for 20 years (Whaaat?) of creating this space.
Congratulations on 20 years! I imagine the lives of everyone that reads your blog have changed over the years. I saw you at a book event once and you admired my shawl-it made my evening. 🙂 Your posts have sometimes had me laughing (that time you locked yourself out of your hotel room comes to mind), thinking, or crying. It’s been a pleasure to be a reader all these years. Thank you, Stephanie.
Happy Blogiversary! Thank you for allowing us into your virtual living room, where each and every one of us has felt welcomed and amongst our people. Thank you for being so real. For all the laughs, especially when you locked yourself out of your hotel room wearing nothing but your underwear…. every one of us raised our hand and said “Totally something that would happen to me!” Thank you for all the wonderful stories, the traveling, the knitting projects, the fund raising, for sharing your family with us, and being our friend. Here’s to twenty more years of the Harlot.
Your description of The Blog reminded me so strongly of The Old Ones from The Dark is Rising: a group of people from across the world, from across time who are there to repel the forces of the Dark. They are wise, and just a bit magical. When they gather, great things happen. (Would totally recommend if you’ve not read it- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, YA, Arthurian)
Yours remains my absolute favourite blog xx
Oh! Yes! My family *loves* those books, and you are spot on about the parallels.
So glad you’re still doing this thing. I’ve been following you for most of those 20 years & I’m looking forward to many more.
Happy Blogaversary! I’ve not been around all 20 years, but quite a lot of them. And while I find you on Instagram, and I do connect on Patreon, I find this location here, this written word, the most comforting.
So, thank you for continuing to write the random occasional thing here for all of us to see, because we love you and your family and all that you have to share with us, The Blog. And here’s to 20 more years (or however many more you wish to share with us).
Happy Blogiversary! I’m not 100% sure but I’ve definitely been following you for close to the 20. In that time my kids have grown to productive (and wonderful) adults, I’ve gone through a divorce, been a single Mom, found love, become a grandma and remarried. Knitting and the your blog, Instagram and patreon have always been there. Thanks for 20 years of inspiration and thoughtful words. I’ve laughed and cried and you have definitely brought positivity to my life. I sincerely appreciate all you do.
I definitely haven’t been here for all 20. I found knitting a bit late and then you even later but I’ve loved my time here. I don’t comment as often as I want to but I definitely want to say, thank you Steph. For having this blog and thank you Ken for helping make it happen so long ago.
Here’s to many more. cliche I know, but it’s true. Now, to go donate to the excellent PWA. 🙂
I might not have been here at the start, but I’ve been here for a lot of it! I started knitting in 2005 and delved into blogs shortly after. I had the priveledge to road trip to meet you in Ann Arbor, MI in maybe 2008 I think it was…. and then to take a class with you in Indiana! You were so funny and kind each time. Thank you for letting us be a part of your life and for sharing your endless amazing projects. Looking forward to 20 more (if you feel like it!) 🙂
Love, my dear. Just love. To you, and yours, and The Blog, of whom I’m proud to be a part.
It’s wild that it’s been 20 years. It feels like just yesterday that I tried to sell you a cookie for $15 (it came with a free book!)
For all the terrible things the internet has wrought, the Blog Days were a magical time. Imagine finding you and so many other lifelong friends on the other side of this screen! It’s hard to describe to the uninitiated and I feel bad for every single person who wasn’t a part of it in some way.
I can’t wait to see what happens in the next 20 years!
OMG, that photo! I don’t even know where that’s stored so I could update it. Talk about changes over 20 years, yikes!
I have a couple photos with you from book tour events! I don’t think I followed from the very beginning, but not too much after that!! I’m glad you are still on here, IG and Patreon!!
I’m a 20 year veteran. 20 years! Where the heck does time go. Although I’m not a blog reader or writer these days I pop over when prompted via IG.
Something else that hasn’t changed: your eternal optimism for getting an alarming number knitted Christmas gifts done! I remember Afghans for Afghanistan and seeing one of your first speaking gigs at the Textile Museum ? where I recognized a young boy who sat it front of me, and I said “ You must be Hank” to the worried looks of his parents, who maybe did not understand yet the extent of how you invited us into the whole Harlot clan. Happy blogiversary Steph! I still make the 3 Sister’s Soup every Halloween ( but without the milk and it’s just as good )
Knit on sista!
Happy blogiversary! I’ve been with you for a long (almost the beginning) time and I found you when I was in a somewhat challenging time and you helped provide light and laughter. Thank you and if you are writing I’ll be reading!
Happy 20th Anniversary! I know time has changed the course of life and social media, and blogging is not like it used to be, but I have to say I’ve truly missed your posts. I’m glad you’re still here and hope we’ll be celebrating The Blog for many more years to come.
I certainly can’t respond with a comment as beautiful as your post, but I can say I’m happy to be here, and have been since the start. We’ve met, more than once. You’ve held one of my bears, and you wrote a kind note when I won some gorgeous yarn for supporting the Bike Rally (no, I haven’t knit it up yet, why do you ask…. big smile). Continue to live your life, share your stories, knit whatever you choose (or chooses you), and know we’ll be here. And thank you Ken. SO much.
Congratulations on 20 years! I think it was 2006 when I discovered your blog. Like many others here I feel like I know you through all that you’ve shared. The good the bad and the sad someone said – so true! I was so relieved to see that you had posted here today. Thank you for sharing your knitting and your thoughts with all of us. Hopefully some day I can attend a class or a talk. Thank you for the blog and for sharing a little piece of your world.
One of my children, when they were very small, made reference to the “Elephant of Surprise”.
It has stuck as a family phrase, as these things do.
That child is older than the blog now, which is strange and wonderful and….
Happy 20th. Here’s to 20 more, whatever they look like wherever they get recorded! 🙂
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Just got this and I’m laughing my head off. Elephant of Surprise is now in my vocabulary. Thanks for sharing.
Congratulations on 20 years! Thank you for being here and being you and sharing a bit of your world with us.
Happy Blogiversary! I commented on IG as well but it’s not quite the same.
I wanted to add that you, our sweet illustrious yarnie leader, have been our bright spot in times of darkness as well. I turn 40 this year so the Blog has been with me pretty much my whole adult life and all but 2 of my knitterly years. We may be the Blog, but we wouldnt BE without the Harlot. And I cant be the only one to be forever grateful. <3
I’ve been reading your blog at least 15 years and have missed the pictures and words this fall. I will probably give in and follow you on Patreon, but I’m actually tired of all the videos and music and hoopla and really prefer the quiet of text and images.
Thanks for another post! Your writing is always lovely.
Thanks for sharing so much of yourself with us.
Congratulations! Thank you for all that you do, from the blog to your books to Strung Along and even the Sock Summits. I’ve enjoyed them all over the years, and learned so much about knitting along the way. I’m especially appreciating your Patreon videos these days. I grab my needles and a cup of tea and just enjoy. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I think I’ve been reading for about 17 years. Yours was one of the first knitting books I bought (and your wisdom that there’s a head for every hat has held me in good stead!) and now I have more of your books, often received as gifts from folks who know I love knitting. I was quite a new knitter when I found you – and your spirit and enthusiasm encouraged me to continue to be a knitter. I refer to “kinnearing” a photo as well. I recognize that I embrace the winter solstice more heartily thanks to your writing. You have shared a lot of wisdom in these 17 years, and even more fun! Thank you!
Happy anniversary! Thank you for all of the times you modeled what it is to be human and fallible in the wittiest words, making me smile and laugh. Thank you too for sharing the hard days with us in words that helped me face mine as well. Thank you for inspiring me and for being a gateway to so many other sources of learning and creativity, whether it was other teachers, authors, designers, dyers, etc. who have enriched my life. Wishing you and your loved ones health and happiness! Here is to another 20 years, at least!
Happy 20 years of The Blog. I started following it a few years in, but I quickly went back to read every post. It’s a treasure and my all time favorite.
To many more amazing years to come!
I found this blog when I was on maternity leave with our second in 2004 while I was looking for patterns and that was it—- I was hooked and read all of the previous posts. I have always enjoyed the posts because I appreciate that despite not meeting in person, I felt at times that there was a lifeline when I was at home with my little ones. What started as a search for picking back up a hobby — that became a skill for clothing my kids — allowed me to feel connected to a whole community. Thank you for your words, ideas & for sharing pieces of yourself!
Congratulations!!
I think I found your blog and you in 2005 or 2006. Wow! I’ve read all of your books, have most of them. Laughed and cried through highs and lows. Learned a lot about knitting, mostly to take it seriously enough, have fun, shrug off mistakes (mostly), and create wooly things with sticks and string. Lucky enough to have heard you speak and take a class from you at a Loopy Ewe Spring Fling. A favorite blog event was seeing the parade of knitted wash/dish cloths at your speaking events. Thank you! Proud to be part of The Blog.
It’s so fitting that your epic blogiversary comes with an epic knitting mistake. Your ability to find the humor in these moments is what draws us in. Your ability to repeat epic mistakes, in ever-more-hilarious ways, is what keeps us coming back.
My dear, dear friend, I have been a guest in your real-life living room as well as your virtual living room. We have celebrated and mourned together. Your determination to make the world a better place is The Blog’s inspiration.
Ok, enough mushy sentiment. I’ll know it’s really the end when you post the completed Gansey. (May it never happen.)
If it hasn’t happened now, it won’t
I have wondered a few times whether the Gansey had been completed and I somehow missed it.
I was wondering who was gonna remember the Gansey from all those years ago!!!
Happy blogiversary. Your blog has brought me so much joy… and I’ve learned about knitting and Canada and biking and life. Thanks for all you’ve shared on the blog, in your books, on your book tours, and elsewhere. ❤️
DEAR Stephanie,
What a delightful world that we can feel so “seen” by people we have never seen in person! Thank you–for sharing yourself in both print and video for 20 years. I love watching and learning from your videos for the opportunity to hear your voice and feel that I’m in your presence, but I treasure your carefully chosen words and crafted essays on the blog and in your books. You have shared so much wisdom and joy and LIFE with us over the years. Of course you didn’t know the specific times that I thought of your words or appreciated the similarities between our lives, but I am guessing that 20 years of comments on the blog have given you the same reflections. Thank you for sharing yourself so generously. You are a special friend who doesn’t know me; I trust that we are kindred spirits who would hit it off fabulously if we only happened to be in the same place at the same time. How I would love to find myself seated next to you on an airplane for a wonderful cross-country chat over our knitting! xoxox
I started knitting in 2011 or thereabouts, and read the back catalogue of the Blog then, and have followed since. I love the Instagram posts and Patreon tutorials. Living in Australia I’m not sure if I’ll ever make it to a retreat or workshop, but following online I get to learn and feel part of a wider community, people who I’ve never met feel like friends or neighbours.
Not sure how long I have been reading your blog but pretty close to 20 years. I just made a donation for this year’s bike ride $20
Ken is a genius; I can’t even begin to imagine what the last 20 years would have been like without you and the Blog. Thank you isn’t enough. <3
What a wonderful journey it has been to get to know you, your family, and your knitting! Thank you for a wonderful time and for sharing so generously. I think I found you in 2007, but I’ve also read every post you wrote. Much love to you as you curate old and new spaces on the internet. I’ll be lurking close-by! ❤️
Happy Blogiversary! I am delighted to see a new post and relieved it wasn’t a ‘farewell to The Blog’. But that poor sweater. It’ll truly go faster this time around.
Mega congratulations on the 20th anniversary!
As other commenters have said, thanks for sharing with the Blog over the years. You have helped others in so many ways – with your posts, raising awareness of MSF/DWB, and of course the Bike Rally.
Thanks for all of the posts, and for being kind and compassionate.
Yes off to donate to the amazing Bike Rally!
keep very well
I guess you realize that you can use that line “closer to 60 than 50” for the rest of your life, and people will assume that you are about 58.
I started reading your blog a few years ago when I stumbled on one of your little books at the library. They made me laugh so much. I don’t know many knitters, so I enjoy reading your posts here and on Instagram. What a ride it has been been reading about all the things life has thrown your way… Greetings from Australia
I think I’ve been here on and off for 16-17 years of the 20. Down in Melbourne Australia. My little kids have grown into adults in the time, and lots of other changes. It seems miraculous that The Blog is still going, but I’m so grateful for it, and your wonderful writing. Thanks, Stephanie.
I’m so sorry to hear that you have had scary responses to your blog!
I miss seeing your words; I’ve laughed and cried with you and treasure the blog. But I understand that it takes a great deal of time and energy to write. So I’ve gone to your Instagram and Patreon postings, but I miss your regular blog musings. And I am ever hopeful that you’ll have a new book published!
I’m not sure when I found/started reading your blog, but I have a picture of you (dated 2007) holding my sock-in-progress at a book reading/signing – so it must have been before that! 🙂 I don’t often comment, but I sure do read every post. I’m sure I wouldn’t have learned to knit as well as I do if it hadn’t been for your guidance. Thank you, thank you.
Thank you for 20 years of laughs and tears. My kids are in their late 20s and your blog was the first thing that came up when I started to find knitters on the internet. Thank you for Emergency Soup and so many other tips/tricks etc to help us knitters ride the waves. I also treasure all your books and hope that you will write more soon. When you showed us your faults (well, inability to listen to your inner knitter) I think we could a breathe a little easier knowing perfection isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
I copied you and made the white cotton bee-stitch washcloths and am still using them. I’ve shared that hilarious blog post ever so many times. I came to your book-signing in San Francisco. I learned vanilla socks from you. Thanks for being there ;-D
My daughter and I, both knitters, have been with you for the whole blog ride. Thank you for talking about the truths of life.
We have laughed and cried and pondered and mused after your posts, and we treasure each and every post.
I’m another who prefers reading a well crafted blog with a few pictures over videos or a few snips. I miss the ability to sit down and read new posts from several blogs. But as you said, times change. I do see you on Instagram, and I am happy whenever you have time to post.
The written word is still so powerful. My imagination when you had the new stove delivered and had the diagram to explain how the delivery people were turning the stove to get it through the door. And Sir Washie’s euology…’nuf said…
Happy anniversary! I haven’t been here the whole 20 years, but I’ve been reading ever since I saw you speak at Maker Fair back in 2008!
Videos and reels are good for some things but you are such a fantastic storyteller, your blogs are always my favorite.
I’ve not been around for twenty years but when I discovered you and the blog, I went back and read it all. I too prefer reading over watching so I’m hoping for more blog posts in the future.
I still regularly think about a comment, one of your daughters made about how you can always recognize a knitter because their hat, scarf and mittens never match. So true!
And I love how you describe the Blog as the Borg but with more yarn – it’s a perfect description! (Imagine how much knitting the Borg could do if someone gave them yarn!)
Thank you for your words and time from Denmark.
I’ve been here since Day 1. Before, actually, because I used to read your posts on the old KnitList and I printed them off to reread when I needed a good laugh (never, ever knit while ice skating). I’ve laughed and cried with you and been astounded at what you could accomplish. I’ve met you in person at book signings and now I’m learning much from you on Patreon, even though I’ve been knitting for 56 years. It’s always good to hear from you, no matter where that is.
I came in on the “Did it snow … enough?” day, and it’s been my favorite room chez Internet evr since. The pictures are great (and that’s another skill you’ve honed,) but it’s the voice that comes through those little black marks on white that’s the heart of your work to me — besides, you know, the fuzzy stuff and the sticks. Happy blogiversary, pet, and our collective thanks to Ken for knowing what would be the best gift to all of us. I think I’ll just snuggle down over in the corner here and do a few rows, if you don’t mind.
Thank you! I don’t think I knew about the blog till I read your first book. But I needed you! I had just moved to this small town with three kids and no friends. Now I’m in a knitting triangle. It’s too small to be a circle but the blog, powered by your brilliant knitting, sense of humor, and most important, writing that reaches us all, has made it a big knitting circle. Thanks for keeping us all company so faithfully. Lots of love.
Thank you for sticking with us for twenty years, Stephanie. I’ve been with you the whole time and feel like our kids have grown up together. Although I follow you in other realms of the internet, it’s still your words here that I enjoy the most and that resonate with me most strongly. Life happens and things really have changed, however, so I understand if these posts are more like an occasional treat than a main course. I’ll look forward to those surprises whenever they happen.
Thank you for the blog and the books and the videos. I have been reading your blog since the beginning, and it has made me both laugh and cry!
I can’t claim to have been here since the beginning (I think I discovered you around 2005), but I did read back from the beginning, and your blog has brought me so much pleasure over the years. It feels like a long time and yet no time at all, and it’s good to know that as our lives change in so many ways, there are always some reliable constants. So here’s to 20 years and many more!
Happy Blogversary I don’t do Instagram and wondered what happened. Following you 7 years.
The blog has been a comfort and an inspiration in my life. Thank you! Best wishes for all of your endeavors.
Happy Blogiversary!
I haven’t been here for quite all Twenty, but pretty darn close. Your sock recipe is my go to from Knitting Rules. And I may be in the minority here, but I LOVE reading blogs, yours in particular. You’ve been a mainstay on my Bookmarks bar since such a thing was invented.
Here’s to twenty more!!!
I found you for the thrummed mittens albeit a few years later in the archives! Been here since 2009 and even met you in Edmonton once. You’re an inspiration and a role model. Thank you for all the advice you’ve given me over the years; even though it was for all of us, it feels like you always knew just the right story to tell for that moment in my life. Thanks for being here Stephanie.
Happy Blogiversary! Do not remember how long ago I found you; have completely enjoyed your blogging. Still check here every couple of days hoping you have posted. Thank you for the laughs here, through your books and social medias! I will be back
Oh my dear – 20 years! How time flies! So many knitting projects, so many knitting stories, so many life stories – all of them real and all of them shared with your Blogverse! I have never met you in person and chances are that I never shall, but I count you as one of my dearest knitting friends. Thank you!
Happy blogiversary! I think 20 years is probably cashmere or qiviut yarn, don’t you think? You should go buy yourself some as a thank you for all that you have given and continue to give to us. Thank you!
You drank a metric fuck ton of coffee … that’s how you got things done, I think. I still refer to my morning pot as my sweet brown elixir of life thanks to you.
By the by, I have all but left Instagram, and I’m not alone. Blogs have technically turned into newsletters, but if you gave us a “sign up for new posts” option, you might be surprised by how many people read them.
Here here! I also do not do Instagram and love the blog format.
Congratulations on 20 years, Stephanie! I’ve been here for all of them and it’s mainly because of your blog that I started my own blog 19 years ago next week. A lot has changed but it’s nice to still have friends in the knit blog world.
Happy Blogiversary! I follow you on Instagram, but I do miss the blog posts. Best of everything in the upcoming year.
I hope you also know the reciprocal feelings that come from the Blog. I love knowing there is this web of knitters out there who are all at the ready should you ask. And I feel like you’re an old friend I just haven’t seen in person in a while. So if I ever see you in an airport I’ll have to come up and say hi for ‘old times’ sake’. And then I’ll leave you alone so as not to be creepy!
Met you years ago at an event at an Ottawa yarn shop, have been in your real time classes and presentations and have enjoyed your blog and books all along those 20 years. Ups and downs, highs and lows, thank you for all of it. Hope you will continue the blog even occasionally but I am changing with the times too, see you on IG and Patreon for many more years I hope. And knit on!
Happy Blogiversary, dear Stephanie! I know I’ve been here for all 20 and have fond memories of the chuckles you provided on the Knitlist long ago, which prompted me to encourage you to write a book. I’m not alone in being so very glad you did.
One of the empowering things you gave me on the blog was the post showing how you pinned and laddered down a fairly wide portion of knitting. It gave me the courage to try this on a lace project (more than 340 stitches wide) where the error was 12 rows down; I couldn’t face tinking back that much. (Lifeline? Nope.). This exercise taught me how to read my knitting, for which I am eternally grateful. Bless you.
Hello Stephanie,
Happy 20th anniversary here on the blog. I came across your website when I was around 17 in 2009 and had just learned how to knit. Knitting changed my life, and I was happy to find like-minded people here on the Internet. Now I am a mother to three little ones, all of whom have special hand-knitted things for themselves. I knit every single day.
Thanks for being here for so long and for the books that you’ve written, most of which, if not all, I’ve read.
Cheers to you and to everyone here!
Happy blogiversary. Stephanie. Long time reader – not day one but close – who has worn out/replaced/shared more copies of Knitting Rules than I can count. Not on IG or videos but re-read the blog and each of the books; Meditations is on my office desk as I type. (As is the photo of you with my first sock). Thank you for the smiles, and the tears. Eternally grateful to Ken; look forward to each and every post when you can but understand that things change. Grateful for the gift of your talent and your time. At the risk of piggybacking to greater minds, agree with Presbytera that a photo of Joe and “the” gansey would be an unmistakeable closing of the circle. Hopefully, not anytime soon – will be here if/when you have the time. Blessings to you and yours; be happy and well. Namaste –
Bonnie aka Knitsiam
Happy 20th blogiversary. I have been with you a very long time (although not right from the beginning – but very close). There is a lot of education and humor in your writing. I came to the blog daily to get a smile and sometimes a knitting lesson (like the ripped back lace that actually made me gasp). Instagram and videos don’t provide that humor or the in depth stories. Instagram feels more like a drive-by, where the blog seems like we are friends chatting over coffee.
I’m old, closing in on 70 in a couple years. I don’t use instagram, much to my daughter’s frustration. I do love reading your blog, even if there isn’t knitting stuff in it. You are so much like a friend I like to keep up with, even though our friendship is all in my head. I’m so glad you haven’t decided to stop blogging. Happy Anniversary!
Happy blogiversary! I have been knitting almost as long as your blog has been around…. from the first project I knit (Weasley Sweater for my then 6 year old… he will be 24 this summer), divorce, birth of my only grandchild (thus far), moving across country, getting remarried almost a year ago (a pair of dress socks using your Vanilla Sock Recipe from Knitting Rules is currently on the needles for him… in black so he can wear them with his suit), assorted health issues…. Your blog (and Instagram and Patreon) have always been there. Elliott and Abigail always makes me smile, my heart broke for your family over Charlotte, your mum and others…
Happy Blogiversary and I hope you’re all staying warm up there…. It’s essentially false spring here in SE Georgia (halfway between Jacksonville, FL and Savanah, GA right on the coast)…
I’ve so missed your blog posts. I understand that videos may be preferred by some, but there are still many who like to read your words. Please continue to blog!!
I was so happy when my friend told me you posted on the Blog again. I have really missed you. I am not on Instagram or any other social media so I miss out on all of your communications. Congratulations on 20 years of the Blog! I do hope you will post more often from now on.
One of the hallmarks of my knitting life was when I ran into you at the very first Vogue Knitting Live! You took the time to enter a brief discussion with me about some knitting controversy (actually just an excuse to get to know you better) and you did not disappoint. You were direct, focused, unassuming, and above all, Kind. Happy Blogiversary, Stephanie!
Congrats Stephanie. I have always been there.
So great to hear your words. I’m an older knitter, have followed you for 15 plus years. You have a special talent with writing and speaking. I’m grateful you’ve kept the blog open even though you don’t post here often as of late. I ‘m feeling nostalgic for the days of your book tours, sitting in a crowded space with many other knitters, listening to you and laughing. Also, your photos in the blog with a partially finished sock, traveling with you. Also, people bringing their first sock knitting project with then to show you at your events. And, of course, the photos of beautiful yarn, projects in process, etc. Wishing you and your family well. Thank you for sharing yourself with us. Cheers!
Happy Blogiversary! I’ve been around for most of it, and the delight of meeting you at that first internet-crushing Sock Summit! I’ve always loved your words, regardless of medium. Thank you!! for enriching our lives and sharing so much of yours. With love,
alison
Happy blogiversary, Steph! I love your blog so much.
Happy Blogiversary, Stephanie! I’m coming up on 20 years, myself, and feel every single word of this with every fiber of my being. I’ve always loved your humor (and your knitting and knowledge and energy), and I hope to love it for a long time!
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that you astounded me by commenting on my (very amateurish and now defunct) blog after I made my first comment here. I’ve been a constant reader ever since, in spite of the budgetary damage from falling in love with many of the sweaters you’ve featured (many of which I’ve made for myself and wear regularly.
Your humor and humanity are all too rare in this world, wish there were millions more like you!
I wish I had taken a picture of the cosy cardigan that accidentally turned out to a woolly batwinged bustier to cheer other knitters up when things go badly awry. I think I have been here all 20 years and its lovely to know you and the Blog are still here when so much is different on the web and little of it for the better.
Happy Blogiversary! I think I found you around the 2 year mark. I had a just walking toddler and a terrible marriage. Your writing made me laugh, learn, feel validated as a crafter, mom, woman… I’ve cheered with you, cried, and mourned with you. I cannot thank you enough for the bravery to keep going and sharing your life with us.
Sorry to write this because it is negative, but I feel the need to speak up. I am certain that I have been reading and enjoying your blogs for more than 10 but not 20 of the past years. I have witnessed your entries trickle for the last few years. I sense that you are using your blog as a private Go Fund Me site, to support your annual bike rally, and little more. The fact is, we all have the same allotment of 24 hours in our day, just as we have since birth on this planet. Today, I am choosing to delete your blog site. I don’t appreciate the push for money and no longer want to spend my precious time pondering the dwindling pearls of wisdom and humor.
You may not be aware that the bike rally is to raise money for a nonprofit organization that supports people with AIDS. That’s where all the donations go. If you choose not to donate of course that’s fine, but just know that it’s not a personal fundraiser.
Congratulations on 20 years.
I’ve done a few total blog rereads in years past and I think it might be time for another one.
Thank you for always bringing us along
Dear Steph, as much as I consider your Patreon to be the Great Silver Lining of covid, if I had to choose, I would prefer pictures and words to videos and reels. I expect that Luddites are disproportionately represented among knitters and spinners, so I’m probably not the only one who prefers pictures and words. My knitting is better for your teaching, but I am better for your words. Never underestimate the power of your words.
Welcome back, Steph! I think it is safe to say The Blog missed you, even though we can find you on Instagram. While I don’t remember how long I’ve been reading you here, you’ve been a source of encouragement and inspiration all that time.
As for that sweater, maybe you should keep in mind my mantra when knitting: Mistakes WILL be made! When it happens, I put the blankety-blank thing into time out for a day or two then come back to it.
Congratulations on the blogiversary!
Happy Blogiversary. I’ve missed you and thought you had given up the blog, like many others have. Instagram is easier for them I guess but I don’t use it. I’m in my 70’s and have been with you for many years. We have similar families, similar values, I was an OB nurse for 30 years.
And we both knit so reading your blog was connecting to a friend. I hope you continue to blog even once or twice a month.
Happy Blogiversary and what a gift to get to read a post from you again for it! It is openly bragging to say I get to count myself as one of the from-the-beginnings, because it declares how privileged I’ve been.
So for me, the Blog came first and will always come first. Thank you for every shared step along the way and to come, however they may be taken.
Happy Blogiversary! And it makes my heart sing a bit to see Presbytera and Rams in place. Much love to you and even more to Ken for giving your voice a platform. You’ve done (and continue to do) so much good in the world.
Yes, indeed!
Happy Blogiversary! Pictures can say a thousand words, but words themselves? They are so precious and they touch my soul. Thank you for sharing both with us over the years.
I’ve been reading for 16 of those years and have loved every single post. You are an inspiration to me in knitting, in blogging, in coping with life, so thank you for all of it.
I really enjoy your blog. Found you two years ago and have gone back to read every post in your history. Very much miss the frequent blogging. Reading your words always cheered me.
Yay, congratulations! I have been with you since around 2005, 2006; I’ve laughed, I’ve mourned. It’s been very special and generous of you to invite us into your life. I am another one who prefers the blog; you are a gifted writer and have shared inspiration, understanding, so much joy – and relatable moments re: knitting. It has been an interesting journey. I also check in on Instagram and am enjoying Veganuary; here is my gift to you: this is really yummy and easily made vegan (I think just the cheese): https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/252899/vegetarian-reubens-with-russian-dressing/
Enjoy and best wishes to you and your family!
Congratulations!! Twenty years is quite a milestone. Like so many others yours was the first knitting blog I found 15 years ago. I read all the back entries so feel I’ve traveled the road alongside you. I miss the regular entries as I LOVE words and pictures but have also been following on Instagram. You have made me laugh and cry through the years but always inspired me. I can’t thank you enough for your dedication and openness with all of us who are THE BLOG!!
Congratulations on 20 years of blogging!!
I can’t tell you how much it means that you’re still doing this. You talk about how your family has grown up now – please also know that there are those of us readers who have grown up with you. I started reading your blog as a teenager at uni for the first time. Now I am in my thirties and I have kids of my own. It has been such a privilege to be invited into your brain for so many years. Here’s to the next twenty!
Happy anniversary!
And that pattern? So pretty, but so difficult! I made the Field Beret as my Advent Calendar and was quite frustrated at some points. It is finished but has a mistake. I decided that I will live with it.
Happy 20th blogversary! Woop woop!! I’ve been reading your blog for about 19 years I think. Thank you for sharing your life and knitting with us. My kids are now in their 20s too. I enjoy your pics on insta, and dip in and out of Patreon (love those silk moths!) I’m still knitting socks using your original sock recipe (Knitting Rules! is my fave knitting book). Thank you!!
Happy Blogaversary! I’ve been here for all twenty, and I thank you so much for it all. I’ll never forget the day you knocked a full can of paint down the stairs–I laughed so hard my co-workers had to ask if I was okay. You’re the best of the best, and we’ll see you when we see you. xoxo
Congratulations on twenty years! I’ve been part of the Blog since around 2011 or 2012, and have read most of your archives on lunch breaks over the years. Can’t really put into words how deeply I admire you and your family. Thank you for sharing your life and knitting with us! A big thanks to Ken, for giving you the tools and support to create the community with us.
One of my knitting teachers used to say–it’s just sticks and string, it all comes apart. Thanks for giving us the tools and sticks and string and words to make our knitting and maybe even our world a better place.
PS Good luck finishing your Field Sweater, what a gorgeous pattern.
I missed the beginning 3 years or so, but have been reading even if I haven’t commented much. Isn’t it strange to think you’re a friend even so? Happy blogiversary! Here’s to 20 more.
I very rarely I comment, but I’ve been here for most of those 20 years. I went and started at the beginning when I first found you and I’ve never skipped a post. Back in the days of many blogs you were always my first and favorite read. I still come here for tips and tricks you’ve posted over the years. Thanks for always sharing with us and here’s to 20 more years!
Happy Blogversary!! I have been knitting since 2007 and your blog was the first one I found (and the only one I read). Your light heartedness toward knitting took away my fear of making a mistake & last week’s mishap with your sweater & your video on Patreon had been laughing along with you! Like, you can’t make this stuff up! I sure do appreciate your willingness to allow us into your life and be along for the journey! Here’s to 20 more!!!
Oh gosh. Could I have used any more exclamation marks? :/
At least 17 more are required by the occasion.
😉
In knitting you can always make another mistake. Today is the first time I’ve done this. I have rediscovered I can use short circular needles to make caps that require no side seam. Got out my #6 circulars, cast on 64 stitches, and intended to knit about 1 1/4 inches of ribbing. About 1 inch realized I had a problem several rows back. Unknit, row by row, until I got to the problem. Discovered (slap of palm of hand on forehead) that after I picked the project up again, had changed direction. This was one error I couldn’t turn into a design element.
Call me old fashioned, but I still love the written word, and you have such a way with them. I haven’t been around since the beginning, but you’ve kept me company for 13 years or so…
I love the view you have, on life and on knitting, that’s just slightly askew from my own. It invites me to look at things a slightly different way, and to not take things (especially knitting) so seriously. I have taken several classes and heard you speak a few times, and it’s always been inspirational.
Happy Blogversary 🙂
I prefer reading, so I have been missing you, but I will try to find you on Instagram once in a while. Everything changes and so does the blog.
Happy Blogversary, dear Steph (a day or so late but that’s how I roll)
Your writing has been a touchstone to my life over the past 20 years. You helped me find humor amidst the daily crazy of life with 3 young ones back in 2004, inspired me to start a blog to share my own knitting and life (which are inseparable, right?) and gifted me connections and community with knitters worldwide (including at Strungalong). I can’t thank you enough, but I can and do thank you from my full heart.
I’ll celebrate you with a gift to PWA and will treat myself to joining your Patreon.
Oh, I was so thrilled to see your post when I checked this morning. I was worried you had decided you had enough of it. I started reading your blog late in the game but have been working my way through the archives. I read a few a week as a gift to myself for making it through another week as a caregiver for my husband. I have read all of your books and have laughed so hard. You have brought me joy and for that I will be eternally grateful. I too find everything takes longer than it did and must sadly inform you that it actually gets worse as you get older. I am 74 so I know of what I speak. I am relieved you didn’t end this anniversary post with a “It’s been a great ride but the ride is over.” Even if you only post occasionally it will be a treat to your loyal blog fans and will bring some a feeling of well-being and connection they don’t get elsewhere. THANK YOU!
happy blogiversary! although i didn’t start knitting until 2011, i found you fairly early on, and it always brightens my day when i see your name show up on my blog feed! thanks for all the inspiration!
I have not been around for all 20, but I’ve been around for at least 10, though I’m terrible about commenting.
Honestly you’re the only blog I’ve actively followed ever, really. I’m not hugely into them as a whole, but your writing always struck a chord with me, and I find myself checking almost daily to see if there’s been a new post yet. I follow you on instagram, too, so I know you’re alive and well and all that, but I was starting to worry you were not coming back to The Blog, and I was very excited to start my day with a new post!
Videos are great for sure, but I bet you money there’s a LOT of us who still enjoy the good ol’ blog posts!
Happy Blogversary! As much as I enjoy your Patreon, I still check here every Friday, just in case. Heck, at this point it’s a tradition, and traditions are important!!
20 years! Way to go and thank you! I’ve been around for about 15 or so of those years. You can always be depended on to throw in such great humour into any situation, particularly knitting problems. So very enjoyable. You’ve put some thoughts in words that describe my own thoughts so very well, it’s amazing. Cheers!
Congratulations for a marvelous 20 years of the Blog. I have been here for most of it. Two of my favorite bits were the sharing of sock photos when one bold knitter had Pres. Obama hold one for a picture (!); and the time you spilled an entire gallon of white paint down your house stairs. Well also your ongoing battles with the yard squirrel “Rat Bastard”. I love reading every word and sharing in your family’s life, both good and sad bits. Will send donation to Bike Rally pronto.
The paint! That has stayed with me too!!!
Thank you for bringing so much life and love to all of us lo’ these many years. x
I’ve missed your blog. For all the hours I spend on instagram I miss reading blogs, which are far less instantaneous. Like knitting. And now I have a small child I miss that too. I’d like to be able to spend more time in one spot.
I’m not sure how long I’ve been reading, but maybe 15 years? How your life has changed in that time. And also, how has mine.
Times change. Methods of communication change. It seems like many now make their presence known through FB/IG and TikTok. Blogging may become obsolete. Best to be nimble in life and roll with the changes. It’s okay to say that blogging no longer meets needs as it did before. One day none of us will be reading blogs. Communication should be about life, and how we best choose to support it.
Cheers, dearest Harlot, and infinite blessings to you for all the joy, humor, understanding, and knitting you have brought me over the many years!
Reels? Videos? Nah, I’m a reader not a watcher. I’m glad to hear you’re busy and that it’s not just me fighting with prescription lenses. I need to audtion opticians – telling them I need to thread a needle and pick up stitches doesn’t resonate. Apparantly the only close work that exists is reading, if I’m threading heddles I can’t exactly bring the work closer to my nose. Rant over. Nice to see you again, you’re at enough distance not to be blurry.
O wow, twenty years ! Congrats !
I am not amongst the people to prefer video’s upon written word, so I was quite glad to read you again 🙂
If you only knew what a blessing your blog has been to me. Knowing that someone else has knit a sweater to big or that a buttonband has given you the twitches makes me feel less alone in this knitting world. I love reading more than watching a video. I guess that makes me old school. Happy Blogiversary!
Wow…twenty years has brought so many changes to you, me and the rest of the world. Some good (even great), some not so much (often devastating). Still have to say that a day with a blog entry from you is a bit brighter for it, so please don’t stop!
Belated happy blogversary. I have missed the blog greatly, although I do check in on your Instagram posts. Both formats are nice, although I love the blog for the chance it gives me to hear your thoughts. Thank you for sharing; I came in a few years in, but was so enchanted I went back to the beginning and caught myself up, and have been a reader ever since.
Dear Stephanie– I am so gladdened to see you here again. I just wanted to let you know that I started reading your blog in the fourth grade, 2009, when I was eight years old, at which point I went back and read every single one of your backlogs too. I have read your blog consistently in the fifteen (!) years since, through high school and college, and even now as I appear to have achieved adulthood. At no point have I learned to knit. Despite this failing of mine, I feel like I’ve grown up alongside your family, and I have been so grateful for your generosity in sharing. Not once have I commented (for fifteen years!), but given your momentous return to The Blog, I wanted to say thank you. <3
Oh boy! SO happy you posted. Nothing against videos or images but you’re such a gifted writer – you have so much to say and say it so well. Hope you find the time and inclination to keep sharing.
Some of us still love words!! Keep on writing 🙂
I have been reading your blog for at least 15 years. I enjoy the photos and videos but your brilliant gift of words has always been my favourite whether on the Blog, your books or Instagram. Thank you for all the wisdom, laughter and enjoyment. May you never stop writing
I haven’t been here since the beginning, but for a good long time, and I still regularly check to see if you’ve posted. Thank you for all you’ve done to contribute to my journey as a knitter, and more importantly, as a human being.
Happy Blog Anniversary. I wasn’t there in the beginning but found you in the mid 2000’s. Reading your words here and in your books has been a constant in my life through raising daughters, cancer treatments, surgery, and the loss of my husband of almost 33 years. I understand your life has changed and you don’t often post these days but I wanted to thank you for all the years you did post. Much thanks.
According to the webz, 20th anniversary gifts are porcelain, daylillies, asters, platinum, and emeralds.
May you have all of those in any combination you choose (although I envision a nice porcelain cup of something warming, with daylilies and asters in a vase, and something truly stunning and expensive). Cheers!
I’m so glad to have you back – like others here, I enjoy reading your words and hearing about your latest knitting adventures. Congratulations on your 20-year Blogaversary!
Yesterday, I almost succumbed to the temptation of a different yarn for a completely new sweater before I gathered my resolve. I reminded myself of the joy I experienced the first time and admitted that my knitting missteps were my fault, that the problem was with me, not the sweater.
Based on when I made my Ravelry profile (January 2010), I would guess that I’ve “only” been here 14-15 years… So not the whole time, but Long Enough. And I have to say, I also love The Blog and have found sustaining comfort in the community here. Thanks, Stephanie, for opening the door to your virtual living room and giving us all a place to gather. Wishing you all the best for the *next* 20 years.
I sure didn’t realize it had been a whole 20 years. But since I found your blog either shortly before or just after my husband and I got married (19years ago) i guess it has been! I havent had the pleasure of talking to you directly but have definitely spoken to several of the long time commenters. I will def keep coming back and checking the Blog for updates and hope to see ya soon!
Happy Blogversary …. I must admit I miss knitting blogs … everything is a tweet (an ‘x’?) or an Instagram photo with a short paragraph. It’s like watching reading fade away … glad you are still here … and yes, it does feel like there is less time than when we were so busy multi-tasking children and life and work …
Someone shared you with me in 2008 (I can’t believe it’s been that long). I was just leaving my lifelong path of becoming an OBGYN and felt lost. But I was starting to love knitting and find a community around it, and you were right at the crossroads of the things I cared about, which felt so comforting and grounding. It changed the trajectory of my whole life.
This remains the only blog I still read, and the only one I’ve read every post of since I started (some more than once). Happy Blogiversary. I’m so grateful you’ve kept sharing, even when it’s been hard or scary or felt dumb. I appreciate you. Happy New Year <3
Congratulations Stephanie! Key of the door for the Blog next year?
With you on the Knit Too Big Sweater issue. I cast on one for DH, knit all the way up to the armholes, checked yarn available, not enough. Sweater body too wide (by about a foot!) Ripped back, knit again. It’s only part way up, but it’s still looking a tad wide – 2-4″. It’s currently ‘resting’ while I knit him some more socks. Even they’re looking a tad wide!
I have loved your blog for so long. I understand that it’s not the current top mode of connecting, but the hardship for us is that you are such a great writer! Of course I love the knitting, and since your kids are the next level older than mine, I loved the frustrated mom bits. They were hilarious when my kids were toddlers, and still funny to relate to when my own were more mobile with more shenanigans. My best friend from college, a non-knitter who I met when we were both English literature majors, heard me refer to the Yarn Harlot one too many times to pass up and has been a devoted fan since, as well.
My favorite posts? Nothing beats the level of freak-out and wholesale war you waged on bugs. In my personal experience it was the meal moth. That little pest completely unhinged me and cost me 30lbs of Ghirardelli chocolate. That was not even my first battle. The first time, I was a newlywed college student in our first place, trying to not notice the larvae in the microwave. Yours was the wool moths. The response you described, the horror, the tidal wave of action, ruthlessness, that matched my response and was so very relatable. Everyone else just shrugged. Meal moths? Oh. Yeah. I think we had those once. Whatever.
I finally knew there was at least one person in the universe who truly understood.
Do all your things excellently. I trust you to carry on sharing knitting with us in the way you feel is best. But I do miss the writing. You are awesome.
I was also a long ago reader and I do miss your more regular blog posts. Glad you have found something that is working for you.
I think I found you 12ish years ago? Once I caught up, I went back and read the entire blog archive. Thanks for being an inspiration, for being honest, for teaching me about knitting and also that it’s okay to have to redo entire projects because you lied to yourself about the gauge.
Stephanie – your posts on your blog, and now Instagram, range from side-splittingly funny to poignant, hearfelt and profound.
Congratulations, thank you for sharing the past 20 years with us.
In my family your funniest posts are these ones.
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Can You Even Do It on 26 Feb 2009.
A Coffee Story on 17 Oct 2008.
Fallen And Can’t Get Up on 18 Dec 2008
Happy 20th! I think I have only been around for the last 10 years of the blog, although I have looked further back. I love your writing, have read your books and passed them onto fellow knitters. Am on Patreon and due to your pattern made the first pair mittens that actually FIT my hands, thank you! I laughed right with you so many times. My friend and I shared the 87″ sweater posting with our knitters help group last week to prove to them ‘ALL’ knitters make mistakes. They loved it.
You are a joy to watch or read, thank you.
Happy 20th, Stephanie. Please know that over the years, though I don’t often miss a post, I rarely comment anymore, especially when I see that someone else has said what I wanted to say.
Thank you so very much for 20 wonderful years. Wishing you and yours the very, very best in the years to come.
Glad I popped over today; I met you in 20__ in Pittsburgh, and then of course I’ve seen you at Rhinebeck. My heart has ached for you and felt joy for you, because of this blog. I don’t knit nearly as often as I used to, and lord knows I don’t read blogs like I used to, but i also don’t follow you on Instagram (the algorithm is too finicky). But do know that your cross my mind from time to time, and that I’m always wondering how you are or what you’re up to. Thanks for being here.
I’ve been around since nearly the beginning, though I never posted. Your books, and then your blog, hit on humor I didn’t realize I wanted and needed. In the beginning I had many scarves that ended up looking like blankets when I randomly increased stitches without realizing it. It was charming watching your family grow and change, and I’ve been oddly appreciative that you were more willing to share of yourself than I am, because the joy and heartache and silly blunders you’ve talked about over the years have all been oh so relatable. I actually don’t do any other knitting content anymore, having added many fine artists on Instagram and not making time for podcasts, as someone with too many interests and too little time. But yours is the blog and Instagram that makes the cut. Now I’m having my own family, and as I read about your own family ups and downs they resonate even more. We’ve had our own difficult family times recently and we’re doing our best to handle them with grace. Happy 20 years, of which I think I’ve been a lurker for about 18, though how on earth is it not 2005 or 2010 anymore? How are they so long ago? All the best to you and your family after nearly 20 years of sharing a bit of your experiences with this member of The Blog.
Happy Blogiversary! I was a brand new knitter 20 years ago and found your blog a few months in. I cannot tell you enough how grateful I am for all you have shared and taught over the years. I would not be the knitter I am today without this blog of yours. I’m not sure I’d even be the mother I am today without having read your blog. Before I was even pregnant, I knew I wanted to breast feed because of the way you wrote about it. Your humor, eloquence and thoughtfulness have been inspiring, helpful and so much fun. Thank you for every blog post you’ve ever written. I hope there are more still to come.
PS – I’m loving reading through these comments with people reminiscing about your past posts. I’m wiping away tears, while giggling and nodding my head!
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20? Really? We might be aging a bit now.
I haven’t been around all twenty, but most of them. I have really appreciated this blog. And while I understand that things change (no matter how much I don’t want them to) and evolve, I admit that I almost dread a new blog post because one day you’re going to say it’s your last. I’m glad that today is not that day. Happy Blogiversary, and I hope it brings you joy for many more years to come!
Happy blogiversary! My teen daughter, who is beginning a new, big knitting project, was lamenting that something hadn’t gone as intended. I pulled up your fantastic post about mending the edge of Erin’s wedding shawl a decade ago, and we both enjoyed the read. Thank you for your writing. I always enjoy what you have to say.
Please, keep writing. I do deeply enjoy your writing, a great deal. Whatever year was the first year you did the “sock a month”, I was here before that. I did a sock a long with you, and, while it took me about 16 months, I ended up with 12 pairs of socks, and have gone on to knit a whole bunch more pairs. I trust you curate what you put out here, and I deeply appreciate what you do share.
Happy Blogiversary! I have been here since the beginning and was thrilled to find knitters online as well! Although I don’t comment all the time, I love to see one of your posts come up! I took my non-knitting daughter (I have three who don’t knit, but that’s a tragedy for another day, I still hope!) to see you in Holden, MA years ago and it was a wonderful treat. Thank you for sharing your life, talent and family with us and thank you for the joy you bring, you are very much appreciated!
I am 74 and have been learning to knit since my teens (I have tried to learn on my own from books, and I really should have taken classes). I am still knitting and just finished a striped top in golden yellow and kiwi green to cheer myself up in the dead of winter. I think I learned about you nearly 20 years ago and have also read more than once all the books you have published .
I just want to add my Congratulations and my thanks for your wonderful blog. I prefer writing to videos, but I know it takes a lot of time to write. However, you have a real talent for writing. Thanks to Ken for what he did for all of us.
I hope soon to get up the courage to sign up for Patreon. I will leave a donation for the bike rally. You are an inspiration to so many. I am very, very grateful to you and for you.
Happy 20th. Speaking for the Blog. we have missed you terribly. You have documented our knitting progresses– failures and successes–and our lives. I thought of you in December when my mother died, and how knitting and life are universal. Please don’t forget the Blog that loves and needs you.
Happy 20th. I’ve been reading your blog and books for about ten years, but have never commented before today. While I know what you mean when you say many prefer YouTube videos, some of us still love to hear the stories of other knitters and badass women. At least I do.
Thanks for opening up your life to us.
Not quite all twenty years, but I have a picture with you at an event in the Sonoma area in maybe 2005 or 6? (You were the center of the trip I planned with my family to celebrate when I got sabbatical – I think they thought I was nuts, but if I wanted to meet the Yarn Harlot, that’s what we were going to do!) You helped me to realize that there was a knitting community out there for me to find, and to embrace my knitterly self. Your blog is one of the last I still check. Be well!
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You’ve been such a source of joy and permanence over my own knitting (and life) journey. Thank you. When I lost my mom, I remembered you and went back and read your post when you lost your own mother. I gathered strength from that. Thank you for (still) being here. Please don’t ever stop.
I think I’ve been around for a lot of that 20 … must be at least 18 years of it as you’re interconnected in my head with meeting my husband and moving interstate 🙂 … a lifeline of sanity at times as well! All my aspirations to knit have fallen by the wayside in the last few years – crafts of all kinds really – but this is my year … it will happen …
thanks for the interesting stuff, the patterns, the reveals, the biking, the lake, the skiing, the recipes, the kidlets, the Joe :), and allowing us inside your life!
I’ve been mostly lurking, but reading this blog consistently for the last 18 years, and I’ve read every entry, and all of your books, and had the good fortune to see you in person twice. Thanks for keeping us in your virtual living room.
Not that I should tempt you to go for a three-peat…but one of my spinning friends just did that sweater in two colors with all those little mini cables in a lighter yarn that makes them just absolutely pop.
Just sayin…
Once upon a time, maybe 2004 or 5, you hosted a sew-up party at your house for a blanket the MDK ladies were collecting squares for. That must have been in the first weeks of my blog-reading life. I thought, What, I can go to this person’s house, which must be kinda near mine, and sew up squares? That would be fun, but she doesn’t know me and I don’t know where she lives and blah blah blah. Anyways, I didn’t do anything about it, but I still kinda wish I did!
Yesterday a friend shared with me your delightful post on Barack (pre-Presidency) Obama with Your Knitting, which I had shared with him back in 2008. 🙂 It made me smile so much!! What a road we’ve all traveled in those (counts on fingers…) 16 years. Wishing you all the best.
I started reading from the beginning when I was a 23 year old just starting out in a new career as an engineer. Still the first blog I check when I need something to read for a few minutes. I don’t knit as much as I used to, 3 kids on top of that full time job cut into my knitting time. Still an engineer, still love to keep up with the knitting world for that day in the fast approaching future when I can claim more of my time for hobbies. Glad you checked in.
Thank you for coming back!!! I’ve kept checking since August……….I don’t have Insta, FB, or any other, and I am way out of North America. This is the ony blog I crave, and I have cherished your humanity and know-how and humor and bravery.
I know it’s spreading yourself thin, but don’t leave the Blog completely! We are a loyal bunch and celebrate each post.
Many, many blessings, Steph.
I have been here from early on, maybe not the full 20 years. Happy Blogiversary. I feel like you have helped me become the knitter that I am today. I have followed you on to Patreon and IG as well. My first grandchild is on the way and I am working on creating an EPIC baby blanket. Not lace like you but Harry Potter themed, which fits the parents. I have learned so many things from you and would never be taking on a project like this, creating on the fly using inspiration and charts from different sources. Wishing you many more years of knitting and blogging.
Wow, 20 years of knitting, blogging, and a touch of yarn Harlotish adventures! Your journey is inspiring, and it’s incredible how The Blog has been a constant in your life. Here’s to more years of buttonbands, triumphs, and surprises notepad online
Congratulations on the anniversary! I think I discovered the world of blogging in about 2008 or so. Yours was somehow one of the first. A single mom in a new city and knitting was a lifesaver for me. My son gave me one of your books when he was a high school student. Your sense of humor has helped me more times than I can say. Not to mention your inspiration as a knitter! Thank you for the good memories.
Congratulations on twenty years! I started reading back in 2009. I have read all your blogs. I have also been lucky enough to meet you and attend one of your classes. I have all your books. You are like a friend who lives far away but always keeping touch through your blog. I have learned so muck more than about knitting through you. Your sense of humour and honesty of life have taught us so much more. Happy Blog Anniversary Stephanie!
Don’t stop The Blog!
IG is cool, but the written word has power.
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What a nice surprise to check back today and see you have posted. Happy belated Blogiversary! Like you, my kids were small when I found you and now they are grown with their own families. Please know the written word is so powerful … and it strikes our brains and hearts differently than a video does. So thank you for whenever you surprise us with another blog post. And thanks for all that I have learned about knitting and laughter and life by coming here. Knitting has the power to connect such different people, doesn’t it? What a gift.
Delighted to hear from you. Please don’t ever give up on words. They give so much more than movies. Best wishes to you and your family.
I’ve loved your blog ever since I found it … I can’t remember how long ago, less than 20 years but more than 10. It’s still the only blog I follow. Please do keep writing, even if only occasionally – I treasure each post (plus I find myself wondering ‘How old is Eliot now?’ ‘How is Joe doing?’ …..)
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t search up your blog for inspiration or company. I’ve commiserated, been elated, been saddened, or just plain mirrored the things that are going on in your life; knitting cycling or otherwise. Your writing is poetic and the fact that there is a real person behind the keyboard is such comfort. Thank you.
You know, it’s interesting to me that I was reflecting on jumpstarting my blog after a seven year hiatus (I did). And I was thinking about what got me started, and it was memories of your blog and posts when the Internet was so new and shiny. I still read your posts, although have not commented for years. Thank you for being here, and especially during my own hard, dark times as well as good times.
I was thinking about you, and how I keep up with you on Instagram (it makes me happy to know you’re still living). But nothing is as good as a blog entry. It’s easy to see that between your regular travel and teaching, grandmother duties (love Eliott), and keeping up with Patreon, not to mention the Bike Rally, the time available for blogging has shrunk quite a bit. So glad you’re not leaving us altogether.
As an older lady myself (71) I also often look back in wonder at my younger self. How did she get so much done? And I come to the same conclusion – she was a lot younger!
Cheers, and here’s to another twenty!!
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Happy 20th Blogversary! I think I’ve been around for nearly the entire two decades. I found you just as I was teaching myself to knit. Thank you for creating such a wonderful community. Here’s to another 20! HUGS
I, for one, am also still here. You were my first knitting inspiration and I’m still thanking Heaven that I have knitting as a spectacular hobby. I even got to meet you many years ago – twice I think – in Salt Lake City.
Congratulations on 20 years of great inspiration and your great efforts. They have certainly made a wonderful difference in my life.
Today at the Olathe, Kansas lunchbunch book club, held at a grocery store, not the library, I shared THINGS I LEARNED FROM KNITTING — WHETHER I WANTED TO OR NOT. We do not read the same book, we share separate books we have read. One of the other club members wanted a closer look at THINGS I LEARNED FROM KNITTING, and when she put it back in my hands she wanted to know how soon I was going to return the book to the library so she could check it out for herself.
Dear Stephanie, thank you for your blog. I picked up knitting again in 2004 after a 31 year break. I loved it as a kid and then got busy with school and eventually boys, leading to marriage and children. It was a busy life, doing many crafty things (embroidery, cross stitch, quilting and even a little crocheting) but I remembered knitting as being more complex and I “just didn’t have time” (oh, how wrong I was). I did stumble back into knitting finally and have done very little else since then for the past 20 years. I knit daily and can’t imagine any other way to live.
I discovered your blog about a 2005 and have loved being allowed into your life and journey. Yes, many things have changed but it’s been mostly good and we’ve held together when it wasn’t. Thank you for being there. You are loved and respected around the world and isn’t that a feeling? Wishing you blessings and lots of joyous knitting time.
Congratulations on twenty years! I’ve been here for all twenty and hope for many more! I miss you when you have long gaps between posts, but I’m always checking and love when something new is here.
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You were on tour in 2008 in Indiana when I met you. I had my 8 year old sone with me. He was knitting capes for his stuffed animals at the time. Now he mostly crochets. So, I have been here the last 16 years and at least a few before that. 18?19? I don’t know when I found you but my life is better because I did. Thank you.
Dear Steph, thank you for all the blogs! I wasn’t there at the beginning, probably about the 10 year mark, but think I have read most of the entries. You are wise, you are funny, you are one multi talented woman, and one hell of a knitter. I can only aspire to knitting like that.
I think a lot of us still love a blog, but there are less and less still going.
Keep writing Steph, we love you! Happy. Blogaversary!
I was so happy to see this post. I’ve really missed you. I just want you to know that I signed on as a Patron during Covid to show appreciation for all I’ve learned from you, even though worms and bugs gross me out. And also for the entertainment and pleasure of your wonderful writing. I think my favorite piece was The Meanest Mother, which I have shared with many people. I have your books as well. Once again, thank you and stay well, I hope you continue to post. Ps. Who is the blanket for??
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Boy, am I late! I was surprised (and happy!) when I saw the new entry. I found the blog shortly before At Knit’s End was published, and I took a copy on a road trip with a knitting friend. I promptly re-broke an ankle, making her our driver, and I regaled her with excerpts while lying in the back seat. We laughed so hard! And it’s all still as funny and true as it was then. Here’s to many more years of laughter.
I found your blog in 2004, when I was sixteen and wondering how on earth I was going to carry on in the world being so crazy about yarn. I had really just started knitting seriously, and your blog made me feel less alone. I’m the Miranda from this post:
https://www.yarnharlot.ca/2005/05/world_of_my_ima/
I’m thirty-six now, and my mom, Judy, and I are still knitting, and the other day we both giggling along with you about the Field sweater situation on Patreon. Thank you for all the words over the years. It’s really quite a privilege to have been reading you for so long. Your writing helped me become a better adult, comforted me, and reminded me that yarn makes most things, if not better, at least more manageable. Thank you.
Twenty years!! Wow! That’s a nice round number, and congratulations on it! I don’t know when I read the first blog, or my first of your blogs (then went back to read from the beginning, because I do that, like I do with books. I like order…) but it’s been a while. I missed out on seeing you when you were in Wisconsin pre-covid. But I’m a big fan, and also a Patron. Love the videos, wish there was more of ‘you’ to see! You’re my favorite knitter, my favorite blogger, my favorite Canadian knitter/blogger, well enough of the mush. You go girl!
I am overjoyed to be able to participate in this activity. I was able to gain a great deal of knowledge from the most influential members of the community as well as from those who possessed the most brilliant minds, and there were also endless opportunities for networking, code sprints, and casual chat.
Belated congratulations on your 20th blogoiversary. Through you years you have made me laugh, cry, question my decisions, and cry out loud in the middle of the night, “why the hell did I choose this yarn”!
Most of all I’ve learned and grown. Thank you for that. Best wishes for the future and prayers for another 20 years of blogging.
I think I’ve been around for all 20 years, or pretty close to it anyway! Twenty years ago I was also a mom with young children. I was a full time teacher, full time mother, and decided that the thing I needed to do for ME was pick up my knitting again. I hadn’t knit a thing in quite a few years (since before kids anyway) and I somehow decided that I would knit a sock. Why socks? Because of you, dear Harlot. You made socks seem exotic and cool and ever so beautiful and challenging and yet somehow do-able. I’ve been a regular reader ever since, and there isn’t any room for store-bought socks in my drawer anymore. Thanks for being here.
I’m sorry to post this on a reply but I couldn’t find another way to contact you. Years ago I ask you how to get something a fan had sent you. You told me how to reach her, and I did. That resulted in a beautiful friendship between myself and Joan DeBolt. Her husband called me this morning to tell me Joan died in her sleep this morning. I just want to thank you for helping me meet a wonderful friend. You never what little thing will change a persons life. I will forever be thankful to you!
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You have been a constant in my crafting universe.
Twenty seems oh so long ago but then not so much.
I miss your words, Stephanie. I can’t sit and have a cup of coffee with a picture. Pictures and videos are just so superficial-they don’t share our internal dialogue and thought processes.
And being “Borg but with more yarn”, it is the thought process that binds us.
There are times in our lives that pictures are all we can manage, if that.
We’ve all shared in grief and joy together. And… frogging, and tinking, and knitting math, and cursing the mercurial nature of yarn while succumbing to its constant siren song and the need to fiddle about with it until something recognizable spews forth from the needles.
Miss you, miss your words, miss your training diary…marveling that you are doing it again and I couldn’t be prouder. Your posts explaining why are always inspiring and thought provoking about the need for a rally and thank the universe there is one.
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BTW, I did spew coffee over the “Borg but with more yarn” bit. So funny and so true.
Waited six years for another KITH. How empowering to be in the company of 150 knitters — or was it 200? I am losing my hearing. I can hear fairly well face-to-face, but have trouble understanding in a group — or a crowd. Bought blue and yellow yarn from a vendor so I can make a chameleon scarf in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. I have posted on this blog with both my legal name of Margaret and my nickname of Peg. If there i$ money involved, I am Margaret. Peg i$ a pennile$$ author. So glad Stephanie is on the move again — the pandemic is truly over.
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How the years have flown since you first came into my life. Although I have been an avid knitter for the last 57 years, I was first introduced to your blog around 2005 by my youngest daughter & have been a keen follower of your blog & Instagram post ever since. Your entertaining books now adorn my shelves in Australia as numerous gifts from my family & have provided me with much enjoyment & inspiration. Thanks to you, dozens of babies all over the world have been the happy recipients of your “Daisy “jackets.As my “go-to” pattern for so many of these occasions, I have now memorized the instructions. As a result the Yarn Harlot has become a treasured part of my days. Long may it be so. Love & blessing to you and your beautiful family.
I’ve been watching from the periphery how you incorporated so much kind sentiment into Blog for all of us. Thanks. I recall being introduced to your handle at a library knit-in. I am from Toronto and surrounds but have moved to hinterlands where wool is burned as garbage rather than spun at all. I have grieved and still work my needles and flatbed machine in defiance. There is an idea to felt it or simple stuff it into flower boxes as biodegradable fill underneath soil. I have moved to where Philosopher’s Wool was situated. Those lovely folk travelled to sell their kits everywhere and on my 50th birthday I made my wish to meet them at home come true. Sadly they have passed but their charitable bequest continues as was. You know, Life is a strands that binds us to each other. Hope your Blog continues sharing your thoughts.
Thank you for those twenty years – I too think I’ve been in and out of here for close to that from the pinnacle to the heartbreaks and back again. I’m from the U.S and we are about to have the fight of our lives: democracy or dictatorship; kindness or cruelty; dog eat dog or sharing at the banquet. Your blog represented creativity, tenacity and KINDNESS. And it has helped give this USA native to keep on fighting. Be well!
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Wishing you many happy returns of the day and for the year ahead. Happy birthday, Stephanie.
I have followed you for years and even attended a book signing. I pray you will accept Jesus and share him with your family.
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Happy Blogiversary – you’re almost at 21 now! I began knitting around 2007. Your Knitting Rules! book was my first knitting book, and your basic sock pattern helped me create my first socks. I’ve began to read your blog around that time too. Life has taken me on many paths over all these years too, and in the past few years, kind of far from knitting. I make maybe two things a year and spend most of my time painting now. I started a blog on my website a few weeks ago and have kind of grown tired already of trying to come up with some big transformative experience to write about in every one. I then remembered how much I loved reading your blog, and recalled one funny post from years ago about how your husband inadvertently made decaf coffee for a few days and you couldn’t figure out why you had a headache that wouldn’t go away. I had the thought that maybe I should just share about my weekly life, sprinkle in things about whatever art I’m working on, and call it good. So anyway, I came here to say that I appreciate you and I still consider myself one of your tribe. I know a lot has changed with tech, but I still love to read a blog and I think a lot of other people do too. Happy upcoming 21 years!
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“Happy 20th Blogiversary! Clearly your sweater’s betrayal is just keeping things interesting – wouldn’t want you getting *too* perfect after two decades!”
“Ah, the eternal knitter’s dilemma: clean or knit? Clearly, the traitorous sweater won this round!”
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Oh, the eternal dilemma! Knitting always wins over cleaning, doesn’t it? Sometimes you just need a fun, quick escape from reality, whether it’s yarn and tea or something totally different like a round of Basket Random Unblocked for a laugh. Enjoy your cozy snow day!
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