Fluffbuff: A year later

Today Fluffbuff is a year old. Back when I started this blog, I had no idea how much it would come to mean to me and certainly did not imagine the friendships it would bring. It helped me rekindle an old friendship that had fallen by the wayside, stay better in touch with a couple of friends who moved away and make new friendships.

Oggi Fluffbuff compie un anno. Quando ho cominciato questo blog, non avevo idea di come sarebbe evoluto e certamente non immaginavo le amicizie che mi avrebbe portato. Mi ha aiutato a riconnettere con una vecchia amica, stare meglio in contatto con un paio di amiche che si sono trasferite e a fare amicizie nuove.

If I have a knitting problem, I can count on other knitters to help me solve it (it happened just yesterday and now I am back on track with the beginning of the Myrtle Leaf shawl); if I'm down, I can count on a few good words; if I'm happy or have a FO object to show, I can share it with you.

Se ho un problema di maglia, posso contare su altre/i knitters per aiutarmi a risolverlo (è successo proprio ieri e ho già ricominciato lo scialle Myrtle Leaf); se sono giù di morale, posso contare su una parola buona; se sono contenta o ho un progetto finito da far vedere, posso condividerlo.

So, thank you all for visiting and commenting and generally making my days better. And thank you for occasionally breaking free of cyberspace and popping something in the mail. It's been fun to receive things in the mail from some of you who I haven't met in real life (yet) such as:

JoAnne, who sent me a generous sample of qiviut so I could try it out.
Briana, who mailed me some beautiful horse hair that I hope to post about soon. Now you are curious, eh? What is the crazy woman going to do with horse hair? I am afraid you'll have to wait until I find someone who can make a little video for me. It's a small thing that I've been wanting to do for a while. You'll just have to keep coming back. :)
And I know I have something Habulicious in the mail right now from Olga.
Participating in SP8 also meant making friends with Rosie in the UK and Rachele in Japan and having a wonderful time sending and receiving gifts.

There's so many of you that I would love to meet in person. I guess I should start traveling soon, eh? Some of you are in the blogroll in the right column and some aren't, because I've been really bad at keeping that updated. I'll try to do better from now on.

A special mention for a couple of non-blogging friends: Elisabetta in Hamburg and Lucia in Reggio Emilia. Talking to you in the past months has brought back memories of my life in Italy and caused cravings for all things Italian again. Betta got me started writing in Italian again and Lucia keeps me on my toes. I wish I could put all of you in this post, but I'm submerged by paperwork and have taken too much of a break from "duty" already today. But you know who you are: Stephanie, Karen, Barbara, Andrea, Sylvia, Priscilla, Marina, Jared, Laurence, Zita…

In fact, I am running out of time to finish the Italian translations! Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Almost forgot…
I'll put together some goodies to send out in the mail. Pictures probably only tomorrow or Wednesday, but if you want to put your name in the hat, just leave me a comment and tell me of your favorite knitting or sewing or paper craft (or other) tutorial. If it's an online tutorial, please provide the URL. I know bloggers do this *before* their blogiversary, but I've been a little discombobulated lately, so bear with me.

This post not checked for typos or stupidity.

Comments

Goodness, so it was right after the glasg retreat? Congratulations!

my favorite tutorial these days is here: http://www.cosmicpluto.com/blog/?p=585 --a short row sock tutorial. I was incredibly afraid of the vague instructions for short rows and this really helped me get it.

Posted by: Rose | April 23, 2007 5:44 PM

happy blog birthday!!! i am so glad to have found you this past year and hopefully in real life one day too. my sister is in LA an i really need to get down to see her, when i do i think we ought to get together, what do you think? here is to another year of the same and better.

Posted by: stephanie s | April 23, 2007 6:13 PM

Happy blogiversary! Wendy Johnson's tutorial on cabling without a cable needle has made my cable knitting go much faster: http://wendyknits.net/knit/cablelesson.htm

Posted by: Tonia | April 23, 2007 6:15 PM

Anniversario felice cara Francesca!
With all those beautiful pictures of delicious herbs made me believe that I almost can smell them!
I am sorry habu didn't reach you yet, i start to get worried, i hoped it should have been there by now.

More posts to come for you!!!

Hugs!
PS. And one of my fav. tutorials was this at it's time it was really handy
http://www.keyboardbiologist.net/knitblog/archives/000344.html

Posted by: Olga | April 23, 2007 6:16 PM

Congratulations! I'm so glad you did decide to start this blog and that you got assigned to me as my SP! Keep up the good work--I'm always so glad to see it when you have posted.

Posted by: Rachele | April 23, 2007 6:34 PM

Happy Birthday to FluffBuff! May you have many more so I can have endless hours of entertainment ;-)

I've got to say Knitting Help as that's where I learnt to do Kitchener Stitch. No more ripping because of a mistake for me!

Posted by: Marina | April 23, 2007 6:43 PM

Happy Blogiversary!! I'm so glad that you're here.

I'm a big fan of Knitting Help too.

Posted by: The Feminist Mafia | April 23, 2007 7:12 PM

Happy blog birthday!

Actually, I like your tubular cast-on tutorial.

Posted by: Sylvia | April 23, 2007 7:26 PM

Happy blog anniversary! Horray!

Posted by: May | April 23, 2007 7:40 PM

Happy Blogiversary! I just want to wish you many more years to come! :) I always love the pictures you take ... and of course the many many craft books you introduced here.

Posted by: Agnes | April 23, 2007 8:52 PM

Happy blog birthday...I enjoy your posts!!

Posted by: karen | April 23, 2007 8:56 PM

Carissima,
dirò soltanto che apro fluffbuff almeno due volte al giorno.. e quando "batti la fiacca" mi scoccio e brontolo, neanche mi fosse dovuto qualcosa!

Quando clicco comincio a sorridere pregustando la sorpresa... esiste qualcuno che può competere con la tua capacità di sintesi e allo stesso tempo spaccare il capello in quattro, farli a ricciolini, e non essere mai noioso??? NOOO! sono sicura!

BUON BLOGGEANNO!!!

PS: grazie a chi ha inventato il blog!

Posted by: Lucia | April 24, 2007 12:06 AM

Happy Blogiversary! I'm glad you've resumed the Italian postings, by the way, and they keep me in touch with the Italian side of my genetic make-up. Hmm, tutorials...I enjoy visiting www.grumperina.com and nonaknits.typepad.com for helpful advice , and www.supereggplant.com has two nice sewing tutorials that inspire me to return to sewing someday, but I also like your Italian tubular cast-on, too.

Posted by: domesticshorthair | April 24, 2007 12:12 AM

Favorite tutorials are anything by Eunny Jang http://www.eunnyjang.com/knit/ I even renewed my lapsed subscription to Interwieve because I think it will vastly improve with her at the helm.

Posted by: Jayme | April 24, 2007 6:23 AM

Happy blogiversary! Love reading your blog!

Posted by: Mari | April 24, 2007 6:45 AM

Happy blog birthday! I found your blog from Eunny's link to your tubular cast on without the waste and have been hooked ever since! I think I'm finally chugging away on Swallowtail, I've ordered some Inox circulars and bamboo circulars to see if they work better than the Addi's. I want to try the lace Addi's too. I'm going to have to say my favorite tutorial is your tubular cast on, it's my favorite because I've used it the most!

Posted by: Bea Apple | April 24, 2007 7:56 AM

I found your blog thru Eunny's, too and I have enjoyed it. I like this tutorial for toe up sock beginnings: http://www.persistentillusion.com/blogblog/index.php?page_id=500

Posted by: Marianne | April 24, 2007 9:02 AM

Happy Blogiversary! My favorite tutorial right now is this series of tutorials on making toe up knee high socks. It's come in very handy so far.

http://www.keyboardbiologist.net/knitblog/archives/001487.html

Posted by: Kate | April 24, 2007 10:55 AM

Ah, ma allora non era solo Pipie ad avere il compleanno! Tanti auguri, Francesca!! Mi unisco al coro di tutte le altre. Anch'io ti ho scoperta grazie al blog di Eunny e le sono davvero molto grata! E grazie anche da parte mia agli inventori dei Blog!! Aspetto con ansia altre storie di gatti, maglie e vita... B

Posted by: Elisabetta | April 24, 2007 11:30 AM

Buon compleanno a Fluffbuff e tanti auguri anche all'autore, Francesca!

Posted by: Zita | April 24, 2007 12:21 PM

happy blogiversary! and happy belated birthday to piper as well ;)

so glad i can catch up with francesca-world even from the other coast..

;)

Posted by: andrea | April 24, 2007 8:43 PM

Happy anniversary, Francesca, and here's to the next Fluffbuff year!

I found Knitting Help invaluable when I was looking for basic instruction on how to make socks.

Posted by: Karen | April 25, 2007 3:29 AM

Happy (late) Birthday Fluffbuff!

I'm open to offering up my horses and their bits anytime, no problem!