Blog Award

This little surprise was left for me in the comments to my Frivolity post by Valeria.  I have to say, I am unreasonably happy about it.  This blog doesn’t get a ton of traffic outside of family and friends, so it was quite exciting to be recognized by someone outside that group.  So now I get to pass it along to seven other “Kreativ Bloggers”.

In no particular order, my nominations are as follows:

Lolly  always has great projects going, and beautiful photography.  She is the creative mind behind Project Spectrum, and this year’s incarnation is fantastic.

Claudia is another great knitter/photographer. Hers is one of the first blogs I ever stumbled across when I was new to knitting and living in Japan, where help was difficult to come by. If it weren’t for bloggers like Claudia (and others) I might never have realized that frogging is part of the knitting process, and might never have progressed much past the garter-stitch-scarf phase.

Jane’s website is an open invitation to creativity.  Her free-range approach to knitting, and her wonderful use of color and yarn make for knitting that is a work of art.

Jen dyes gorgeous yarns, bakes yummy things (I’m always hungry after reading her blog), and knits cool things.  She’s also the founder of the Completely Pointless and Arbitrary group on Ravelry, which is one of my favorites even if  (especially if?) it gets a little bizarre and off-color at times.

I found Janet’s blog on the Tawashi group on Ravelry.  She’s a bi-crafter who crochets cupcakes (and crochets/knits other lovely things) and lives in Texas.  I liked her immediately (hubby is from Texas and we lived there for a few years.  I really loved it).

Christine is another fellow raveler whose blog I ran across while avoiding housework admiring projects.  Her blog is full of gorgeous socks (and other knits) plus other creative craftiness.  She also likes knitting dishcloths, which clinched it for me.

Chris’s dynamite cowl was what  first caught my eye (I’ve been thinking of making that pattern one of these days). When I also realized she has WIP’s (and posts about them) that have been on the needles for a long time, I knew she was my kind of knitter.

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