Knitting and crochet blog week IV

When I first started this blog in January 2011, I'd been away from machine knitting for so long that I was no longer in touch with any other machine knitters, and I knew of no machine knitting blogs! That changed quickly I'm happy to say. I was also thrilled to find the machine knitting groups on Ravelry and Yahoo.

I now subscribe to several knitting and sewing blogs. Besides the fantastic machine knitting blogs that I follow online, I've found a few hand knitting blogs which inspire and delight. One of these is eskimimimakes.com. I love viewing the beautiful and sometimes quirky projects on the blog. I've never knitted an Eskimimi pattern, but now I can participate in another way. And I'm inviting you, Machine Knitter, to participate, too. Eskimimi Makes has announced the 4th Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week to be held from the 22nd through the 28th of April 2013.

What exactly is Knitting and Crochet Blog Week, you ask? Below is an excerpt, but please be sure to visit this page on eskimimimakes.com for all the information.

Once a year knitters and crocheters that blog are invited from all over the world to take part in a community blog week in which they are presented with a number of topics to blog about over the period of seven days. The topics are very flexible and can be interpreted in many ways, so there is a good deal of variety in the posts that this inspires, which then provide wonderful reading for anyone who enjoys reading the blogs that it inspires.

As machine knitters I think it would be fun if we participated, too. I made sure to ask Eskimimi if it would be ok for machine knitters to take part, and she has welcomed us! There are really no strict rules for Knitting and Crochet Blog Week. We are simply invited to write on the suggested, very flexible topics. There's not even an official sign up.

If you decide to participate, here are some handy links to pages on Eskimimi Makes, Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Headquarters:

• Full details and graphics
• The daily topics
• Post tags explained, post tags graphic and FAQs

And here are the post tags! Please read the information on how to use them. (It's easy!) If you tweet, the Twitter hashtag is #KCBW4.

This will be my first time participating and I'm very excited. I hope that other machine knitters blog and read along, too!