Personally I have a lot of different hobbies and I do tend to focus on a handful of projects at any one time. I will look into blogs about those projects, will bookmark them, and then move on to the next project.
I'm a flighty crafter. And I don't think I'm alone. I found crochet much easier to master than knitting or sewing. Especially once I learned the basics and was ready to move on. Once I am confident with something, I tend to move on to something new.

The main attraction of crochet for me is it's lack of boundaries. You can crochet in any direction, with any yarn or non yarn easily, remedy mistakes as you go along and it's quick so presents for pets which will be destroyed won't make you cry. I think generally crochet attracts people who will mix crafts and have many hobbies and little time, so those who blog are few and far between. Thank you bloggers, for saving us flighty crafters! ;P

As someone who is relatively new to crochet (but not to blogging) I am constantly seeking out other crochet blogs. I'm not always looking for patterns or tutorials (though they are v. useful of course), i find just looking at other people's WIPS and FOs inspiring and exciting in itself (and discussions about crochet such as this one are very compelling to me).

For me personally, crochet bloggers (in particular) definitely do not need to bring in other elements of their lives (e.g. recipes etc) to keep it interesting. If anything, i get turned off if someone blogs too much about their cooking/church etc. I guess I'm pretty 'narrow focused' in that respect! And in my own blog, so far I've kept it solely crochet crochet crochet, as that is what I want to read myself. (rule no.1 of your list!) But I admit that so far, it does follow mostly a 'list of things I made' format, so I intend to add more writing eventually.

Anyway thanks for a good read, it made me think :)

BTW, I found your blog when I was writing my review of the latest issue of Interweave Crochet and looking for a suitable link for your name. (Sorry to see you leave IC, but I'm looking forward to seeing what Marcy does with the publication.) I love your “Top Ten” list up there, and will do my best to incorporate each of those suggestions into future blog entries.

Happy hooking!

m.k.

I love crochet – it's definitely my number one thing to do when I have a rare spare minute, but when I decided to join the blogging community I did it as a crafter and not solely as a crocheter. Why? Well maybe because crochet fills the gaps so nicely, quick easy projects that can be done to embellish and add interest to other crafts. I didn't want to limit myself to just crochet and in a way that gives me the chance to experiment more and feed that back into the crochet I do.

I've kept meaning to chime in, and then have been distracted. I did want to say that I also quite frequently wondered about the lack of crochet blogs. When I got back into crocheting I searched high and low and was frustrated that there weren't many substantial crochet blogs.

I think offline more so than online I've been a lot more vocal about discussing crochet, even though probably 90+ percent of my posts are about what I've crocheted. Feelings of inadequacy also creep into the back of my mind when calling myself a crochet designer, because I make dolls/amigurumi, not necessarily garments, so I sometimes feel like I shouldn't always speak authoritatively on the subject. I think especially because I tend to be very blunt in real life, and been accused of putting on airs often enough to feel as though I should tread lightly with people who don't exactly *know* me online.

And, as witnessed, I also tend to get somewhat tangential, and have to reel it back in. I do try to discuss crochet, and I've been meaning to show more about how I do things, because even though the things I do to make my dolls seem commonplace to me, I forget that it would be helpful to others who don't think the way that I do to get an idea of how I crochet.

I've just gotten too busy, and I've been trying to do too many things at once- new patterns, embroidery, picking up knitting, figuring out the book proposal thing, being a mom to 2 maniac (major time vortex there), reading and being intimidated by way too many other blogs, etc. Then it's been 5 days between posts! Twitter is something I've been trying to figure out lately as well. I signed up, but I'm trying to negotiate a balance between talking about what I'm doing in my personal life with talking about my craft. It's all very thought provoking though, and your post, as well as all the comments after it have been rather interesting.