… that Lorna’s Laces is having a naming contest for a new yarn they will begin offering to shops at the TNNA market in June?
Just thought you would like to know if you hadn’t heard already. Sounds like something fun to join in on, as well as the prize is generous, too!
p.s. I am not submitting a name because I am affiliated with Lorna’s Laces (they distribute my patterns). But there’s no reason for you not to have the chance to win. 🙂 Good luck!
I’ve done a final tally of the Help for Haiti pattern sales and am sending in today another contribution of $186 to the long-term recovery efforts headed by the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Thank you to those who helped out with purchasing HeartStrings patterns designated for donations. This brings the total donated to just a bit over $1000 including personal donations made before the Help for Haiti campaign on Ravelry began.
I think it is important to keep in mind the support for long-term recovery efforts. After the most immediate, critical needs are handled, I know from my experience with hurricane Katrina in my area that there is still so much to do and it takes long, long time to get on the road to recovery after a major calamity.
Although I did set up the 3 downloadable patterns I designated for donations in the Ravelry Store, I also tracked and credited donations for those same patterns sold through Patternfish and Shopatron (the majority of orders having come through Ravelry and Shopatron). I hope I didn’t miss personally thanking everyone who purchased through Ravelry and Shopatron. Sorry – I don’t have access to buyers’ names on Patternfish, so if you purchased there, just know that it was appreciated and I thanked you anonymously.
Another thing that was interesting to me was the relative response to each of the 3 designated patterns. I initially designated only the Thinking of You Scarf as that clearly expressed my own sentiment in this situation. But I wanted to give people a bit more choice, so also designated 2 other patterns that I thought would follow on in a similar friendship and compassion theme – – Circle of Friendship Socks and My Beading Heart Scarf. The Thinking of You Scarf pattern was clearly the most popular of the 3 during this period (even following Valentine’s Day which at first I thought might have been the reason).
To all the designers who participated in the Help for Haiti campaign at Ravelry, and especially to Casey at Ravelry for doing the programming to rally the Haiti donations, thanks again for thinking of Haiti and donating what you could toward the relief effort; however small or large, and whatever your preferred organization was to donate through, it all adds up to positive results.
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I seem to be on a trip down memory lane more often these days. Is it something about advancing age, or what, lol? My latest is on reflections of a holiday greeting card I made 18 years ago as a gift to knitting friends.
The card is actually a pattern for the Christmas stocking in the photo. Although I was doing some computer publishing at that time (for the text and charted page layouts), this pre-dates my digital camera days and so it was made in the style of a photo glued to the front page.
The terminology and writing style pre-dates the official launch of the Jackie E-S / HeartStrings pattern line, but patterns like this are timeless. “Christmas Stocking” pattern as originally published in this holiday card style is now available as a world exclusive at Patternfish.
In this pattern, you’ll be humored by the reference to “round” needles rather than circular. To me, calling needles “round” (to differentiate from straight needles) made sense at that time because the needles were for making things in the round. However, I recall giving a presentation to my local knitting guild not too long after this, and when I referred to “round needles”, a knitter rather sarcastically challenged me that all knitting needles were round. Not to interrupt the flow of the presentation for the other participants, I quickly conceded to her statement, but that was before the days of square needles being manufactured, lol.
Another sort of humorous reflection is the omission of a suggested needle size. Only gauge is given. Seems that my group of knitting friends felt that should be all the information that was necessary, and that pattern writers should not be suggesting a needle size. I didn’t agree with that point of view once I started officially publishing HeartStrings patterns, so you will always see a suggested needle size to use as a starting point in achieving the planned gauge.
Anyway, my knitting friends enjoyed their gift card/pattern, and that is what makes life go ’round. I hope you’ve enjoyed the story, and that it might have even awakened some good memories of your own, too!
