A post for every day is very impressive.

It's that amazing scheduled post capability. I set up the posts in advance to release at 6 a.m. EST, and I usually try to keep at least a week ahead of the game. Before I figured out how to do that, it was such a scramble to get the day's post out. One time I posted at about 11:45 p.m. Now I can not write for a few days if I want to.

Three of those comments are mine! I really enjoy your blog. Today's post was great; Eleanor Roosevelt's knitting has always interested me. The picture of FDR holding knitting while she holds a drink is one of my favorites.

Hooray!

I have a friend who is really into kitting. What is the URL ? I'll pass it along to her

Thanks, maritacov! I don't always connect the name on the comment with the person's identity/connection to me, if any.

Rollick, my blog is The Knitting Needle and the Damage Done.

Well done you. It takes discipline to maintain a blog. (I should know, I haven't updated mine in ages.) Your blog is wonderful, it's clear you have a real passion for your subject.

Cograts! There aren't many bloggers that can maintain that kind of consistency. Especially with such a focus on quality. You should see those numbers inch up now that you've established yourself as a blog with focused, quality content.

My numbers are going up slowly, though too slowly for my liking.;-) You think, or at least I thought, that all you need to do is get some breakthrough links, and you'll be all set. It doesn't work that way. I have had some traffic spikes from being linked to in prominent places, and they do help, but the process of building the kind of regular readership you need is a slow one. It will get easier and easier now that I have such a solid archive and there's some momentum, but I'm a long way away from having the kind of traffic I want.

When I launched the site, my idea was that its main raison d'être would be the review posts, where I critique and ridicule patterns from the latest of issues of all the knitting magazines. But of course with 15 or so knitting mags (there are others, but they don't offer the online preview pictures that I need to use to write the reviews) publishing at most four times a year, I can only do a review post about once, maybe twice, a week.

For the other five or six days I do what I call filler posts. I figured these filler posts would all be quick and easy to write, and only of passing interest. Hah. It's easy to come up with a topic for them — I have never taken more than five minutes to come up with a subject. But I start writing about it and next thing I know I've written an essay. Some filler posts do take ten minutes to write and are rather thin, but sometimes the topic turns out to be quite involved and I spend three hours researching and writing the post. And although the review posts always do attract quite a bit of interest, my filler posts often do quite well. In the list of the top ten most-viewed posts on my site, six are filler posts. I also keep thinking the well will run dry, that I'll run out of subject matter for my filler posts, but I haven't yet.

I've actually had a friend tell me she found the filler posts much more interesting than the reviews, but then she isn't a knitter and so of course she isn't going to be interested in reading reviews of patterns she'll never make. The reality is that except for a few friends and maybe some one-time visitors who stumble upon a filler post that happens to be on a topic of interest to them, most of my visitors will be knitters.

And next in celebratory blogging news... my blog's Facebook page has just reached 100 likes after 99 days of existence (I set up the Facebook page November 26).

I'm telling myself that the three digit threshold for likes is the dividing line between "embarrassing vanity project" and "project a critical mass of people are taking seriously".

Well, it ate my comment on that penis sheath YSL number. Maybe I'll try and reconstitute it. It certainly must be winning in the knitting blog title category, and as someone who's actively trying to dampen further interest in newer hobbies, I think it's easily of interest to non knitters while stretching people's awareness of knitwear: that first Lucy Neatby scarf is a real eye catcher.
I doubt you'll run out of material as it's just as good a frame as any to hang your writing on, and if you are spending your current time on it, maybe stick it in your profile and not worry about straying from your origin? Personally, unless it is something purely and painfully obligatory, I find writing is writing, whether it ends up as pages of emails or essays or whatnot, energy spent is energy spent. I have friends who write for a living with no sense of art or joy in it; it's just work. And it shows, sadly.
So enjoy it, first. Stats can be fun but don't let them bring you down.
But have the fun while they are fun.
I'm sure feeding future spike junkie fixes will not be much of a problem, but it is a strange world where little numbers have the power to give you a heady rush of emotions.

And I have new record for "longest visit": 1 hour 43 minutes 53 seconds, with 17 page views.

The current record for longest visit to my site: on March 22 someone from Lausanne, Switzerland visited it for 2 hours, 32 minutes, 46 seconds, with 23 page views

My blog's Facebook page has reached 200 likes. It took 99 days to get the first 100 likes; 42 days to get the second. So exponentially, I might expect... 300 likes in a month's time? Over 1000 by the blog's first anniversary in November? We'll see.