My lack of blog posts might be blamed on
"Goldfish". Here are some lovely images of goldfish from Wikimedia. These are photos that offer inspiring color palettes.
I might have posted my "Colorwork #5" post
days earlier but I was stuck on the idea of getting an original photo of my
framed art poster of "Goldfish" by Henri Matisse. I love that poster. It hangs in my family room. I could not get a decent photo
when it was cloudy, because the overhead light reflected on the
plexiglass which is typical for a poster frame. I could not get a decent photo when it was sunny, because the window light was reflected similarily.
It took a couple of days for me to decide to use a photo from Creative Commons at Flickr instead of my own pathetic poster photos.
I must admit that I cannot really blame "Goldfish" for me not posting. What I can use is the excuse that other designers sometimes use on their blogs: I have been working on a "Super Secret" design project. It will take another week or two to finish.
If you like color as I do, I can recommend a great website that I learned of from the blog of knitwear designer, Linda Marving. It is Design Seeds. You can subscribe there (just type in your email address), and you will get one email each day with two photos and their accompanying palettes. They always brighten my day.
Photo credits: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AShubukin_goldfish.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldfish_-_East_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_390130.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goldfishs.jpg
My last blog post was an offering of a knitting pattern giveaway in return for comments. There were no comments, so there are no winners.
My "stat" numbers for my blog, have shown a growing number of "pageviews" in recent weeks. I thought that the contest was a good idea. Now I must reflect on what this means.
Maybe there are readers who have never commented to a blog before. I know when I first wanted to comment to a blog, I felt a bit daunted by the "choose a profile" thing. It is not really hard to do, but you have to be ready for that. I actually had a little used gmail address in place, so for me it could have been so easy; but still I remember that I did not leave a comment the first few times that I considered leaving a comment.
Maybe the giveaway prize was not big enough. The last two blog giveaways that I commented on both involved newly released knitting books. I would have loved to win either one. Winning a book and anticipating its delivery would be a great prize, don't you think?
Maybe (and this is also positive thinking for Knitcircus) many of my readers are Knitcircus subscribers and already had the patterns.
Maybe all of the above. At least I have to think so. I am not going to let this stop me from blogging. But I do not think that I will have another contest for a while. What do you think? Your comment is always welcome.
