Make My Day

Back on the 30th while I was tied up with life beyond blogdom, Laura, who is probably my oldest blogging buddy from this first year of posting, tagged my for an award. This is definitely my first blog-related award. And it's a good one from someone who's opinion I value.

The rules of the You Make My Day Award are:

Give the award to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blogland. Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times.

Since I've gotten so behind on my blog reading lately, right now I can really see who I make time for as often as I can.

Some of the blogs I read regularly are the big ones that top most lists. I've read The Yarn Harlot for as long as I've read blogs and comment regularly. Stephanie is one of those people so amazingly nice and real that, despite the volume of comments she gets, she reads her commenters' blogs and occasionally sends responses to comments. It really made my day when she knew who I was at her last appearance here. I also read Franklin's posts and Laurie's pretty much as soon as they post them (but even here I have gotten days behind recently). Though three very distinct personalities, they all have that ironic/sardonic/self aware kind of humor I like. Plus, they all can write well while very rarely tipping the the balance to too silly or cutsie or flip.

But these big-name blogs aren't really the point of an award like this. This is more about those people you develop a relationship with - a relationship akin to the neighbor where you really click  and get together for coffee and chatting on a regular basis. I've had neighbors I got along with and visited often, but in the world of blogs I have so many 'neighbors' I can find ones I really feel comfortable around and miss that daily contact when one or the other of us is busy.

In no special order at all:

I have to return the compliment to Laura at Fiber Dreams. We really don't have quite the same style of knitting, but our interests compliment and contrast. I'll visit her area this summer and may actually get to meet her.

Karen (akabini) is the instructor who made knitting really click for me this time around. Though I see her in real life fairly often, it's nice to easily keep up with those little details.

A View From Sierra County, home to Birdsong, comes from a place just a bit north of the small town in the California foothills where I grew up. She lives that country lifestyle so many of us think we want but so few can really pull off.

Consummate commenter Karen at Yarn Is My Metier manages to design lovely knitwear that actually look wearable while nursing an uncooperative shoulder and seeming to appear everywhere in Blogland. I'm very happy she includes me on her rounds.

Vicki knitorious runs most of the few group blog events in which I participate.Her style of 'leadership' suits me well and her site really feels like a friend's livingroom.

Zeneedle suits Margene's site well as a title. Her projects and her shots of the Utah landscape where she lives rival each other's ability to inspire awe but both just feel like a part of the Zen that is Margene.

Despite her occasional insistence otherwise, Ann has an open, easy-going style in a space where she celebrates the ability to immerse herself in both her knitting and her pig-collecting passions with abandon at purlingswine.

Rabbich is just Rabbich - take it or leave it, it's no skin off her nose. At Laurie's book signing when Rabbich asked the person in line in front of me if they knew her, I promptly replied 'You're Rabbich.' Only several minutes later did I realized I'd never actually met her in the flesh before.

Erika lives in a smaller version of the residence in the country where I grew up. Though I'm now more 'mature' about sharing my space with mice and such - at least up to the point of actual contact - I recognize her wrong-place-at-the-right-time sort of bumbling through alien situations that I saw in my mother, especially, and to some extent myself, in my early youth. And she knit a sweater for a tree for her 15 minutes of fame plus the derivation of her blog name, Redshirt Knitting.

Feral Knitter Janine does some amazing colorwork and is patiently generous with her knowledge and expertise both on-line and in person.

ashpags wins Honorary mention for her regular commenting here, but she needs to blog more on her own site before I'd feel it contained enough to merit this particular award.

Notifications in comments will have to wait until morning. It's actually quarter to two and I just fell asleep sitting up for the second time. 

Comments

[margene]

You have quite a list there. Thank you for including me!
I didn't do this meme because my list would have been loooong. ;-)

[ann]

thank you, thank you!!

[Laura]

Thank you, Karen. :-D

[Rabbitch]

Thank you so much!

I haven't done this meme because how can I choose just ten?

~all~ of the knitbloggers make my day. Well apart from the few I don't like and there's no point in being nasty just for the sake of nasty, is there? I only do that if it's fun *g*

[Karen B.]

I'm flattered to be included in such august company! You are way too kind, Karen Jo.