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Shop list, amaryllis, and…

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Shop list
We received the most recent list of shops that my patterns are in from our distributor today. Our stuff is now in 347 shops, all but five of which are in the U.S. I updated the shop list on my pattern site. The shops that are not in the U.S., and the two Internet-only […]

Server up? Down?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Actually the server is up, but our host has been having problems today—a denial of service attack has had them scrambling since the wee hours. Sometimes my sites will be up, others down. Email is just as flaky. I had a plan for a post for you for today, but I’ll do it tomorrow when […]

Electronic format

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

I just got off the phone with my distributor. We talked a bit about delivering patterns in pdf format. I have some stuff to do behind the scenes, but in front of the scenes, where you are, pdf sales will continue after all. Woot! I know. I am so happy. The only caveat is that […]

Tilia kits and new shawl

Monday, June 22, 2009

Dee at Posh Yarn received the Tilia patterns that I sent her before running off to TNNA. She’s kitted them up with 26 glorious colors of her luscious Diana yarn, and will be selling them starting at 8 pm UK time on Wednesday. The official preview will go up on her site tomorrow (Tuesday), but if […]

Domus Aurea knitting resumes

Thursday, May 21, 2009

What with all the business of naming this pattern, I figured I’d better get a move on, and get some knitting done on it. I pulled it out yesterday afternoon, and knit a few rows or so of the central portion before deciding that it would be really nice to know how much farther I […]

Naming the shawl: a poll

Friday, May 8, 2009

Quite a few of you suggested names for my new shawl. They’re all wonderful. In no particular order, here’s the list. Vote for your favorite one. I’ll leave the poll up through the weekend, so you’ve plenty of time. As usual, this isn’t a democracy—if I find that I like one more than the one […]

Caught in the act

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Posh yarn arrived!
Finally. It took ages for the British and U.S. postal services to do their combined thing and deliver this fiber-y goodness to my doorstep. The yarn from Dee got here on Monday, just in time for me to take it to knit knight for show and tell. It’s so pretty! And soft. Yes, […]

Blogging blues

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Yup. I’ve been busy. The charts for the latest lace, the clover one, whose working title is currently In the Summer Shade, have been taking tons of time. Mostly because I keep forgetting stuff—like, it’s sort of important to somehow indicate that the outer two edge stitches are supposed to be garter stitch. Yeah.
But […]

I am home

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

The good news is that I’m home. I’m not home for three days—or worse, ten minutes. I’m home until late February. It’s so nice to be here again.
The bad news is that I am still accessing the Internet through Dave’s computer. My own probably works just fine, but the UPS that it plugs into […]

Blogkeeping

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Distinctly different than though simultaneously similar to housekeeping, blogkeeping chores include sidebar modifications (check), new back-end spam blocking software search and installation (check).
Some time in the wee hours this morning I did yet another search for spam blocking software to work in conjunction with Akismet. I found a product called WP-SpamFree, and installed it. […]