On this day in 2007, The Dublin Knit Collective first appeared in the blogsphere. Check out The DKC’s first blogpost.
Blogging about the Dublin Knit scene was very different ten years ago. I captured photos with a point and shoot camera. My pics were au naturale and not carefully staged with props. Then, I went home to my laptop, wrote a paragraph or two, uploaded the photos from my computer or camera with a USB cable. Then posted it online for the blogsphere to see.
There was a time when one was never asked to subscribe to a blog or a newsletter. There were no smartphones, no mobile internet to tweet or Instagram. Who would have thought that ten years from that post on 1st August in 2007, I would be holding a handheld device, and with the swipe of a finger …
Instagraming for all to see… what, where and with who I’m knitting whilst drinking an Americano.
(Yes, the above photo was carefully staged at a local café;)
Let’s take a stroll through memory lane…
It was always exciting to read about my two favourite yarnshop proprietors in Dublin in an actual paper magazine or newspaper.
Lisa Sisk of This is Knit
Rosemary Murphy of The Constant Knitter
When knitters talked about knitting a Clap, they were not referring to a Sexually Transmitted Disease..
The Owls sweater gave new meaning to a cabled jumper knit along.
I think the funniest blogpost and provides commentary to what it was like pre-Google…is How to Get to This is Knit. I remember taking the photos at the DART stations and getting strange looks from the platform staff. How was I to know that Google maps and GPS tracking was going to make this type of blogpost so obsolete in 2017?
So what’s in store for the next ten years? The DKC is going to knitwork like it’s 1999….
