A Bluestocking Knits

TypePad is shutting down, effective September 30 — four weeks away.  I got an e-mail from them just yesterday.  We've been with them since 2005, when we started a private blog to keep in touch with our families while we were in Hong Kong, and it was while we were there that I started "A Bluestocking Knits" — that's twenty years! it's kind of hard to believe.  It's a lot of knitting history for me, and of course reading and quilting and, since 2020, counted-stitch and samplers, plus all of the little family details and whatnot that came into it along the way.

I don't know yet what I'm going to do — move to Blogger for free, to WordPress (less expensive than TypePad but with fewer amenities)?  The knitting community seems to have pretty much abandoned the blog format since Ravelry came onto the scene, which is disappointing to say the least, though in a way I sort of understand, since long-format posting not only takes more effort and doesn't have the near-immediate gratification that Instagram et al. do.  I don't and won't do FaceBook, and I don't really think it serves the crafts community very well anyway — too brief, too transitory — so that's not even under consideration.

Sigh.