This week this blog turns six, which as all maths nerds know is a Perfect Number (the sum of its multiples apart from itself).
It’s taken some years to get to the point where I feel comfortable including blogger as part of my “Hi, what do you do?” resume. I’m Liz Haywood, I write a sewing and fashion blog. Maybe felt like I needed a track record? An archive? It’s not like anyone needs a qualification to write blog posts.
Anyway, to mark the date (Feb 18th), here are the top 6 most-visited posts.
(I hadn’t checked the blog analytics for a while, and was surprised to see a few changes since the 5 year anniversary.)
One
One. The free scrubs pattern, intensively written in the space of just a week during world-wide lockdown. I guess there’s still plenty of scrubs-making going on.
Two
Two. For years, the free wraparound skirt pattern was the most-visited post ever, by far. It’s now been bumped down to number two. I wrote this only a couple months into my blogging “career”, so it’s had time to mature in the analytics department. I still have the peanut-print sample and often get nice comments when I wear it.
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Three. The free hat pattern soared into third place at the beginning of the pandemic. It comes in 5 sizes and is worth checking out if you have a large head.
Six years! That’s an amazing achievement. I found you through your free scrubs pattern when I was sewing for for the NHS here in the UK. Huge thanks for that. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog ever since (and made a few of your designs).
Congratulations
lizhaywoodon February 22, 2022 at 5:45 pm
Thanks Donna! Thanks for giving my other patterns a whirl too.
Happy Anniversary, and a hope for many happy returns ( for OUR benefit!) since you have so many free patterns to share, you might want to check out the instagram challenge for March, I think…I mention it in case you hadn’t seen/heard of #frugal sew22 or something like that. I don’t insta, but it’s been all over YouTube. No reason to miss out on a little word of mouth…
Congratulations on your blog’s 6th anniversary, Liz! I love these blog milestones because you can see how much material has accumulated one post at a time. 🙂
Hi Liz, Congratulations on your wonderful blog.
looking forward to the next 6 years.
Thanks for reading for the past 6 years Kay!
Six years! That’s an amazing achievement. I found you through your free scrubs pattern when I was sewing for for the NHS here in the UK. Huge thanks for that. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog ever since (and made a few of your designs).
Congratulations
Thanks Donna! Thanks for giving my other patterns a whirl too.
Congratulations, Liz!
Hope to be reading you for many sewing adventures to come.
Thank you Del. Yes, me too!
Happy Anniversary, and a hope for many happy returns ( for OUR benefit!) since you have so many free patterns to share, you might want to check out the instagram challenge for March, I think…I mention it in case you hadn’t seen/heard of #frugal sew22 or something like that. I don’t insta, but it’s been all over YouTube. No reason to miss out on a little word of mouth…
Thanks Chris, I’ll have a poke around Youtube. I found it on Insta: #sewfrugal22.
Congratulations on your blog’s 6th anniversary, Liz! I love these blog milestones because you can see how much material has accumulated one post at a time. 🙂
Thanks Mary! Yes, it was interesting going through the stats – I’ve written nearly 300 posts.
I successfully made the hat pattern last year and love reading your blog every month
Thanks so much for reading 🙂