What a year! As we head into 2009 I would like to say thank you to everyone who has commented, linked to the site, added us on Twitter, played S&T, stumbled on the posts, contributed links and posts, added photos to the flickr pool, subscribed to the feed and everyone for being generally wonderful.
I have some HUGE plans for CraftBlog, as well as branching out a bit into a couple of other sites which I hope to announce later in the month. 2009 will bring some changes, more ongoing projects for readers to keep up with, a higher number of guest posts and contributors and more of my personal crafting coming into the mix.
When I started the site almost exactly six months ago it was just a pet project, I’d noticed the tutorials on my personal blog were popular and wanted somewhere dedicated to that, never did I imagine the friends I’d make and the community that would be formed, nor that hundreds of thousands of people would visit the site and read the posts.
The most popular posts for the year were…
- Notebook Cover Tutorial
- Fantabulous Pincushion Tutorial
- Appliquéd Ribbon Blanket Tutorial
- String Quilt Block Tutorial
You guys sure like the tuts 
My personal favourites were…
- Trick Or Treat Tote Tutorial – My little Halloween bag, I use this to hold my selvedges now, it’s still my favourite tutorial I’ve put up!
- Tutorial Review – Watercolour Flowers – I still love this technique, and the canvas now sits proudly in my hallway, for such little work (and artistic talent!) it’s so effective.
- Adventures In Paper Piecing – Ack, the start of my downfall and obsession with paper piecing, if only I’d known everything this little gnome would lead to!
- Hot Or Not? Multifunction Scissors – Looking at these still makes me laugh, I hope to have more polls in the future, they’re lots of fun
2008 was great, but now I am one year older, one year wiser and my family is one bigger, so this new year is looking to pretty good as well. I wish everyone a happy, healthy and superbly crafty 2009 and hope you all hang around to see the new things I have in store for CB!
Thanks so much for all of the effort you put into this website! I am a newcomer to the site and a newbie to sewing/quilting/embroidery but I love all things crafts. The Craft Blog site totally entertains me! Good work and keep the ideas coming!