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Summer Diamond Trellis
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
In Search of Testers
I have a couple of thread crochet patterns that I am writing up that I will be needing testers for. If there is anyone interested and has the time, please visit my homepage at http://midknightstarr.webs.com/ and join the forum.
Thanks 
I think I’ve finally settled…
I was never happy with a “name” for myself, or I should say, a “name” for my blog-o-stuff blog/pattern shop blog, but I think I settles on something I like and it all started with my old crochet journal on Livejournal. A friend of my came up with “Crochet by Midknight“, a play on my user name and the time of night. That was before I was knitting…
Now I’m knitting and slowly starting to write knitting patterns along with writing crochet patterns and I wanted a name that would incorporate both. I tried a couple different ones: “Hooks and Needled by Midknight”, “Midknight Fiber Designs”, but they really didn’t sit too well with me.
About 2 months about I created a new art journal on Livejournal that I call “Art by Midknight“…
Today it hit me, and yes I’m slow… Why not just “…by Midknight”?
And I love it
And that is what it will stay 
I’ve been away for too long.
My computer died late last summer and I have been without up until last week! I’ve been learning the way around my new laptop with a new OS, plus trying to catch up on all of the sites and communities I’m part of. It has been a very busy 1/2 of year for me though, just not with the things that I would have liked to get done. I haven’t had a chance to work on coming up with any new patterns for crochet or knit (yes, I have been getting into knit design, noting major though). I have a pair of socks I designed up on Ravelry that I am going to post here also to get a knitting page going.
I will be starting a site for my son also. He is trying to start his own little “business”. He has been crocheting these beautiful roses, no pattern, all his own design. He also has been making rose accessories, ie. bracelets, necklaces, rings, hair clips, scrunchies, etc., all crocheted, to sell along side of the rose flowers. The major part of this idea that he came up with is that 25% of the sales will got to Shunt Research and 25% will go to Autism Research, the rest he decided he will need for supplies and expenses. The best part is his reasoning for this idea, he himself has Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of Autism) and Shunted Hydrocephalus. He decided that he wanted to help other children like him. When I have it all worked out, I will be posting a link here
