The Dude is One Year Old Today!

Happy Bloggiversary!

It was one year ago today that I figured that I'd give The Crochet Dude a shot and present him to cyberspace. Who knew what would happen over the next twelve months?

• 232 posts
• 140,000 hits
• 3,000+ comments logged
  
• 10,638 views of my Blogger profile
• 10 free patterns created
  
• 50 designs published
• 10 designs created for yarn companies
  
• Featured in newspapers in countries such as the USA, England, Canada, & Australia
• Received six marriage proposals.
  
• Featured in magazines such as Knit.1, Bust & Interweave Crochet
• $175.00 raised for Habitat for Humanity
• 1,000+ subscribers to The Crochet Dude newsletter
• Able to meet Crazy Aunt Purl, Lady Linoleum & Ellblo among many other fantastic people (you know who you are!)
  
• Signed my first book deal with Lark Books
• Coauthored that book with knit goddess Annie Modesitt
• Taught myself to knit and went on to knit one of Annie's designs for that book
• Selected by Accord publishing to do editing work on the 2007 Crochet Pattern a Day Calendar
• Blogshares.com current value is B$4,724.63/share (buying may be difficult)
• Technorati Rank: 11,745 (264 links from 129 sites)
• Top crochet site on the Crochet Top Site List. Have you voted?
• 289 people have pinned my Frappr Map.
  

And if I think of anything else I'm going to come back and add it to the list. If YOU think of something I should add to the list, let me know!

Thank YOU!

Seriously, I'm so grateful to each of you that comes to my blog and enjoys my designs. I love reading your comments (hint hint, leave one right now) and I feel like I've made some fantastic friends here!

Cleo has enjoyed this year too!