Last week the 5th birthday of the Craft of Clothes blog slipped by (with title apologies to Barbara Streisand).
It’s been 5 years, 240 posts, over 1000 comments, 17 free patterns and 35 reviews. I wondered when I started if I’d be stuck for things to write about, but that never happened.
I’ve written every week except over Christmas/January when the blog goes on holidays (and one other week when a neighbour pulled out a tree and took the internet down).
Second top post: the Free Scrubs Pattern has zoomed its way up to second place in less than a year. It brought the website down when it came out, resulting in an urgent 7pm phone call to Tim-the-website-man, who said I hadn’t broken the internet – just exceeded the site’s limit.Third top post: the free hat pattern, which like the scrubs pattern has been massively popular during the pandemic, possibly in part due to the sizes for big heads. I look at this photo and see how much my brown hat has faded – time to make another!Fourth top post: Considering Zero Waste Fashion. This was another early post, written at the beginning of my zero waste pattern exploration. Until the pandemic it was actually in second place, which is surprising since it didn’t involve a free pattern. This post was one of the persuaders for writing Zero Waste Sewing; it revealed that people were searching for zero waste fashion.Fifth top post: the free zero waste wraparound skirt pattern, which came about a year after the original wrap skirt. I developed this pattern even further for the wrap skirt in Zero Waste Sewing.Sixth top post:The secret science of invisible mending, where I attempted to invisibly mend a moth hole in a jacket sleeve. Of related interest is the post on visible mending.Seventh top post:free pattern for ballerina slippers – another post that received a boost during the pandemic. I guess we all need slippers if we’re #stayingathome. I’d forgotten until now, but these were part of a challenge to use every part of a pair of jeans.
Thank you everyone for reading this blog, especially those who’ve been reading since 2016. Many thanks for your comments, downloading, book & pattern buying, great ideas, and encouragement of me and others – it means a great deal to me and I’m so pleased to be part of your sewing life.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
It’s a mile stone worth celebrating. Congratulations!!
I always love reading your blog – it’s always full of inspiration and encouragement.
Thank you for taking the time to share.
Happy Blog Birthday!
I’m kind of sad that the golden age of blogs has been largely replaced by Insta. I really enjoy a longer analysis and a bit more detail. Yours is a recent discovery but I do enjoy reading it and there is a lot of useful ‘stuff’ in those 5 years of archive!
Thank you Wendy 🙂
Yes, I don’t mind a blog either – room for a lot more writing and piccys, and the archival nature of blogs makes them more “permanant” than fb and Insta posts, which eventually disappear so far down the feed that it’s impossible to scroll that long to find them.
Happy Blogiverssary, Liz! I enjoy your posts immensely. Here’s to another 5 years!
Mary
Thank you Mary – high praise from a seasoned blogger!
Congratulations Liz!
I have enjoyed your blog each week and is a sewing
highlight for me.
Keep up the good work.
Anthea
Many thanks indeed Anthea. I know you’ve read every single post 🙂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
It’s a mile stone worth celebrating. Congratulations!!
I always love reading your blog – it’s always full of inspiration and encouragement.
Thank you for taking the time to share.
Thanks Julie for your lovely comment 🙂
Loved this post Liz, and congratulations on your milestone.
Thanks Sue!
Your blog will be 10 in a couple of years!
Happy Blog Birthday!
I’m kind of sad that the golden age of blogs has been largely replaced by Insta. I really enjoy a longer analysis and a bit more detail. Yours is a recent discovery but I do enjoy reading it and there is a lot of useful ‘stuff’ in those 5 years of archive!
Thank you Wendy 🙂
Yes, I don’t mind a blog either – room for a lot more writing and piccys, and the archival nature of blogs makes them more “permanant” than fb and Insta posts, which eventually disappear so far down the feed that it’s impossible to scroll that long to find them.