This week is my turn to be blog editor on our Artfire Fiber Arts Guild blog.. so to get me back into blogging regularly todays post is by me.

One at a time or multiple project juggler… which one are you?!

PS. It has a few sneak previews of things to come too!

This..

Became this..

See.. It’s coming along but a few tweaks are still needed here and there..

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,200 times in 2010. That’s about 22 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 12 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 91 posts. There were 46 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 31mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was October 5th with 90 views. The most popular post that day was My Store.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were ravelry.com, top100crochetsites.gotop100.com, myhq.com, facebook.com, and networkedblogs.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for bernina 1260, ganache icing, free patterns, creative textiles, and pancakes.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

My Store May 2008

Free Patterns & Competitions June 2008
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1st of Free blanket square patterns… flower square November 2008
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Finn’s 2nd Birthday Koala Brothers Cake August 2008
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Weekend crochet for babies by Sue Whiting November 2008
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Happy New year everyone! x

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful day with your nearest & dearest wherever you may be x

So here it is.. my mystery free pattern gift to you all a musical notes hat.. one size fits most.. it measures approx 22inches around and is long enough to cover most of your ears

I have uploaded it to Ravelry and you can instantly download it FREE on Ravelry HERE or just open the pattern PDF now by clicking HERE.

I hope you like it & I’d love to see your versions of it if you make one.

Merry Christmas

Fiona

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I have a free pattern Christmas present for you all. I can’t post about what it is until tomorrow.. as the one I made hasn’t been opened by it’s recipient just yet!

But I can say It’s a quick and easy knit in DK, has a touch of crochet & embroidery on it & is something to keep you warm for your New Year celebrations perhaps?! I can say no more can you guess what it’ll be?

So I’d like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas tomorrow  & do pop back when you next get a chance to download your free pattern

Fi
xoxox

I’ve not mentioned this before but I’m a major fan of Harry Potter and absolutely loving that our eldest is enjoying our reading our way through all the Harry Potter books at bedtime.. We’re on #3 at the moment ‘The Prisioner of Azkaban’. Finn already has his own Harry Potter wand and is hoping santa is going to bring some Harry Potter Lego if he’s good.

I was looking for something to put into Grace’s and Finn’s Christmas stockings and came across this wonderful free golden snitch pattern by Raynor Gellatly.. which I just couldn’t resist making!

To stop possible fights over whose was whose or Finn trying to claim Grace’s in addition to his own I chose the only colour Finn is not so keen on for Grace’s.. luckily she doesn’t have any aversion to pink

I made a change to the method of knitting the spheres.. I knitted them in the round with a long circular & magic loop method; stuffing as I neared the top of the ball so I could avoid having to sew any seams up & I used Emily Ockers circular cast on method for a really tight/neat circular cast on. The only tricky bit was knitting the last k2tog row as I’d stuffed the spheres to their utmost to make them very firm!

They took me less than two evenings and I just couldn’t resist sharing them.. lets hope F & G like their little extra stocking surprises & my thanks go to J.K.Rowling for creating the wonderful Harry Potter Universe and all the Characters therein.

This week I finished mapping out the rest of the sizes and it’s currently being tested by a few crocheters in real life and on ravelry. In fact i’m short some testers for some of the sizes so if you’re on ravelry & fancy signing up to test a particular size then pop over here to see more details & sign up. You must add it as a project to your ravelry notebook & upload a digital photo of your finished hat by November 14th. Use any 4ply from your stash you fancy & all testers get to keep the pattern for free!

The sizes I’ve worked out are for 0-3m, 3-6m, 6-12m, 1-2y, 3-4y, 5-6yrs.

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