the blue blog archives: blue is for knitting

A few weeks ago, Lynn asked why "blue is for knitting"? Well, I do like blue, but there's a longer story.

I've had a website since 1997. When I first set up a navigation bar on my site, I wanted to save some space for my site to expand. Most of my individual pages had a specific color background to aid navigation, so I decided to make a blue page as a space holder for later content. I called it the blue room, named after a rather empty guest room we had in our house when I was little. Take a peek at the blue room v.1! When I started board gaming (yes, board gaming), I put some gaming content in the blue room and blue was for board games. I liked the alliteration in that title - it made it sound very Sue Grafton, don't you think? Here's a look at the blue room v.2 getting underway. The board games moved to a different spot on my site once I started knitting and decided it would be fun to keep pictures of my projects online. The blue room v.3 still lives at my old web address as an entry page to this site. Check out the side bar there (or this post from last year) to read why the blue room is the perfect place for my craft content.

Well, my online blue room grew larger and larger and when I finally started a knitting blog, "the blue blog" seemed like the perfect name. Since "blue" can have several meanings (ahem, cough, cough....I still enjoy picturing the disappointment on the faces of the people searching for "hotties"), I decided to add a tag line to explain that, here, blue is for knitting.

And a look at my wips page will usually show that I live up to my tag line. In fact, I've got three blue projects on the needles right now.

posted by alison at 8:14 am | in just blogging 04

Comments

wowzers...that wallpaper! You look so happy, though.....like you've just scored some cashmere on cones or something ;)
Have you read The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables FAME) yet?
The Blue Blog was one of the first knitting blogs I ever read...and I still LOVE checking in for the latest in the Blue Room!

Posted by: greta at August 1, 2004 9:01 AM

Yup, I'm blue without my Alison fix! :) You were a real cutie. And still are! MWAH!

Posted by: sandy at August 1, 2004 10:18 AM

Are those PJs you are wearing? I see that you have had your great smile since childhood.

Posted by: Melissa at August 1, 2004 11:13 AM

Blue is beautiful, dear Alison! And yes, that wallpaper is a knock out! What a cutie you were as a kid... :-)

Posted by: Marg at August 1, 2004 7:13 PM

That is only the cutest picture, EVER.

P.S. I love blue, too. (My first weblog was called "le bleu blog"!)

Posted by: Becky at August 2, 2004 3:45 AM

This brought back such great memories my grandmother had a blue room too. She was the one who taught me to knit and come to think of it she kept her yarn and knitting machine in the blue room. Maybe that's why I loved it so much. Maybe that's why I love this blog so much...

Posted by: Jennifer at August 2, 2004 3:56 AM

Board games are among our family's favourite hobbies as a group. We tend toward the eclectic (our first great family game was "Settlers of Katan" - only we had a pre-US release in German which worked only because I'd played with the developer of the US rules and none of us needed to actually know any German to play).

It's always nice to read an origin tale. Thanks, Alison!

Posted by: Jenanne at August 2, 2004 6:26 AM

Thanks for explaining 'blue'! My younger sister would *love* to have that blue wallpaper in her apartment! She was a 90's teen, but loves the 70's!

Posted by: Lynn at August 2, 2004 11:02 AM

What a terrific story!

Posted by: Norma at August 2, 2004 4:48 PM

Wow!! How did you know that I had been wondering about that? Thanks for educating me on this. AND LOL and the giraffe..finish me, indeed!

Posted by: elisabeth at August 2, 2004 10:24 PM