- Celebrating milestones

Jace is 5 months old today ...

That alone would be reason enough to celebrate, but the blog also reached a couple of significant milestones: 200 blog posts and 50,000 views. Better yet, 125 of those posts were written since my 2014 New Year's resolution to "Blog." So we're celebrating by eating the newest version of the #2 all-time blog post for dessert tonight.

Best of all, in the past year I found a community of like-minded stitchers, weavers, dyers, and dreamers ... KINDRED SPIRITS ... crossing the country from New Mexico to New York ... circling the globe from the Netherlands to Australia.

And in that community, I finally found readers who were willing to talk back. Of the 665 comments made since the blog began in 2009, over 90% appeared after Jude Hill's Considering Weave class began last June ... no coincidence.

So much has changed ...

• Beginning every day reading about and looking at the amazingly inspirational creations made by the KINDRED SPIRITS ... 
  
• learning so many new ways of doing the "same old" things ...
• finding joy in the process and acceptance of my own creative expression ...
• and letting go of  "needlework" in order to embrace "stitch" as my watchword.

So much remains the same ...

• Don being there every step of the way ... 
• encouraging me, then asking for my thoughts on his own creative journey ... 
• following the blogs of others who have caught my interest, then finding his own inspirations ... 
• and adding not an insignificant number of ticks to the "Views" stat.

It has been a most excellent adventure ...

I can't wait to see what's next ...