# Help me name my blog **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551 "2006-09-21T13:19:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/1 "2006-09-21T13:19:51Z")
I’m beginning to think that all the creative names for blogs have been taken. I am hoping to make it a knitting blog to keep me motivated towards this obsession of mine and really don’t want to make it a Shirley Ujest kinda thing. Gotta keep the alter ego’s compartmentalized, yanno. I would like to have it either be in the A’s or Z’sof the alphabet or something one word that is easy to remember. I was trying for Fiddlestix, but that is taken by someone else at Blogger, the bastards. I also know zero about the blogging world and would welcome any other blogging sites that are easy to maintain and FREE ( with upgrades availble to entice me to even more greater levels of addiction.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/2 "2006-09-21T13:29:58Z")
Here are some I’ve thought of: \*\*Cromulent Knitting Acorn Knitting Short Attention Span Knitter Four Knitters of the Apocalypse Acme Knitting \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/3 "2006-09-21T13:35:37Z")
\*\*Zest to Knit Zealous Knitter Hi, Opal, How’s Your Knitting Coming Along?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/4 "2006-09-21T13:45:00Z")
I guess **Knitwit** is gone? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/5 "2006-09-21T13:51:16Z")
**Knitting Not Drowning** **Knit One Pour One** **The Knits That Say Nee** **Good Knit and Good Luck** **Needle Tremblers** ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/6 "2006-09-21T14:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] I guess **Knitwit** is gone? [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s what I get for taking up something so obsession years after blogging starts. Nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/7 "2006-09-21T14:02:29Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] \*\* **The Knits That Say Nee** **Good Knit and Good Luck** [/QUOTE] I like both of these. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/8 "2006-09-21T14:07:21Z")
\*\*Fly by Knit A knit of passion No knit deed goes unpunished A good yarn All knit long \*\* Are some new ones I’ve thought up. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/9 "2006-09-21T14:13:45Z")
\*\* Knit heals all wounds Knit on Go Knit Yourself. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/10 "2006-09-21T14:16:51Z")
Knatterings or knitterings > [@](#): > > Good Knit and Good Luck I like this one too. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/11 "2006-09-21T15:11:36Z")
\*\*Sit on Knit Knit Happens Knit Pickings Purl Two Knittering Nabobs\*\* ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/12 "2006-09-21T17:24:47Z")
As for free-and-awesome blogging sites, you might check out [www.wordpress.com](http://www.wordpress.com). You can set up your own subdomain, as on Blogger (e.g., [shirleyujest.wordpress.com](http://shirleyujest.wordpress.com)), and Wordpress has terrific, frequently-updated software. If you later decide you want to start your own domain, as some nerds (ahem) do, you can install Wordpress’s software for free on your site. It’s open-source, and massively customizable in lots of ways. Great product. And I’m not getting paid to say that. But I did approve this message. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/13 "2006-09-21T17:27:12Z")
My Damn Knitting Blog! Knit or Die! ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/14 "2006-09-21T18:09:28Z")
Purls Before Swine ---
**Author:** ![Kairos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kairos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kairos)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/15 "2006-09-21T18:37:59Z")
Woohoo! Another knitblogger! (Yeah, I knit, and I blog about it. Best thing I’ve ever done.) The knitblogger community is huge, which makes coming up with an original name pretty damn difficult, as you’ve obviously discovered. I know [Purls Before Swine](http://purlsb4swine.blogspot.com/) is taken (it’s a great blog), and [Knit Happens](http://www.knithappens.net/) is a pretty well-known knitting store with its own webpage. I like **Knitting Not Drowning** (not taken, as far as I can tell) and **Fly By Knit** (also not taken). Really, I think it’s more important that you pick a name you love than picking something no one else has thought of. There are a lot of duplicate and near-duplicate blog names out there, most of them unintentional. As long as you avoid the obvious ones ([Yarn Harlot](http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/) is right out), it shouldn’t be a problem. I did my research when I picked my blog name ([nerd knits](http://www.siliconashes.net/~imbrium)) and I couldn’t find anyone with anything close. Now (a year later) there’s half a dozen knitblogs with variations of my name. Oh well. Whatever you pick, let us know…I’m always looking for new, good knitting blogs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/16 "2006-09-21T19:01:39Z")
Woooo another knitting nerd! I suppose you already know about Knitty. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/17 "2006-09-21T19:03:13Z")
And, if you haven’t heard of it there is a [socktoberfest KAL](http://www.lollygirl.com/blog/), which is the entire reason why I want to start a blog, so I can join in the yarn pronny goodness. ---
**Author:** ![Kairos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kairos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kairos)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/18 "2006-09-21T19:05:37Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I suppose you already know about Knitty. [/QUOTE] Oh, most definitely. Also check out [MagKnits](http://www.magknits.com/) and [The AnitCraft](http://www.theanticraft.com/). Good stuff. Do you spin, too? If not, you very well might in a few months. It seems to be contagious. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/19 "2006-09-21T19:08:20Z")
[QUOTE=Kairos] Oh, most definitely. Also check out [MagKnits](http://www.magknits.com/) and [The AnitCraft](http://www.theanticraft.com/). Good stuff. Do you spin, too? If not, you very well might in a few months. It seems to be contagious. [/QUOTE] I don’t spin and I don’t think I can afford to start a new obsession, thank you very much, Ms. Crack dealer ma’am! I just blew another $18 + tax on really purty sock yarn ( fortisma) at my LYS. I have yet to figure out the stupid gusset. But the yarn had glitter in it. OOOOOOOOOOH. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551/20 "2006-09-21T19:13:12Z")
**STFU & Knit** Which has been tickling my brain all day because of some blog that is **When Fuck You, Asshole isn’t enough**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-blog/373551.md?page=2)