The main pic on today’s post is a double rainbow (the outer one is reversed!) that I photographed through the lounge window yesterday. We had the most outrageous weather, starting with sunshine in the morning and followed up with really fierce hail in the afternoon – plus rainbows later on!
I’ve been doing some ‘housekeeping’ this morning. Not the dusting variety, though that does need doing as well, but the ‘sorting out my subscriber email list’ variety. If you’re a subscriber who hasn’t opened any newsletters in the past few months you’ll be receiving an email later today asking you to confirm that you’d like to stay on the email list. If you get that email and want to stay, please click the link or you’ll be unsubscribed by the end of the month.
It’s important that my subscriber list is made up of people who actively want to be there. Apart from anything it costs about £24 per month to have more than 500 subscribers (I currently have about 840ish), so if there are lots of folk who just haven’t got round to hitting the unsubscribe button it gets unnecessarily expensive!
I’ve been working on a new design submission this week. It’s even more top-secret than usual as I’m getting to use a yarn that isn’t even out yet!
What I can tell you about is that I have two new patterns coming out this week! I thought one was going to be out last week, but the kind people at what used to be called W H Smith (I think it’s now T J Jones, but I always doubt the initials) looked on their systems and told me that issue 193 is due out on 16th April, not the 9th as I’d thought. I have a pattern in there and also one in the new issue of The Knitter (issue 227) which also hits the shops on Thursday (16th) and many magazine subscribers will already have it. I’ll share pics of the actual design on my socials on Thursday and here next week.
Things are gearing up for Wonderwool Wales in just a few weeks time. The printer has been working hard, the kits are ready and I’ve been playing with the squared paper again to plan this year’s layout of the stand. Also, because Yarnies at the Flaxmill is the following weekend, I’m also trying to ensure that I’ll have enough patterns and kits for that as well.
On Friday I had the pleasure of photographing my Making Tracks jumper on a friend from my church choir. I may have mentioned before that this jumper was originally designed as a man’s jumper, but for various reasons was photographed on a female model for the magazine shoot. I’m really pleased with how the photos have come out and will share more pics in the next couple of months as the rights to self-publish the pattern return to me at the end of May. The jumper really fitted my friend well – and suited him too!
We have a new dishwasher arriving today. After we spent most of August and September without a working dishwasher (because it kept tripping the electricity) we got it fixed, although it turned out this was only temporarily. A few weeks ago it started tripping the electricity again and so we decided it was safer to replace it rather than try to get it fixed again. We had the old one (11 and a half years old) removed and last week we finally got round to ordering a new one! I’m hoping all goes smoothly.
That’s all from me today. I hope you have a good week and if you’re a newsletter subscriber and get an email from me later today asking if you’d like to stay, please click the link if you do, and do nothing if you don’t! K x