by Shannon on May 20, 2013
(Funny if you read the last post’s title before this, eh? because where we’re going is a cruise…)
Special thanks to the magical robots at random.org, who chose #287, aka Dawn, as our survey contest winner. I double-checked, she’s on the mailing list, and so she’s won the full $100 and not half! Congrats to Dawn and thank you to ALL of you for sharing your opinions, because it really does make a difference in what happens next. I discovered some of the things I thought weren’t so important are, and also the reverse, so I will be changing up some of the reboot plans thanks to your input.
Now, on to some really fun news!
Join me + CP authors Kate Atherley and Anna Dalvi for 7 days in the Caribbean next January. The all-inclusive price includes 3 whole days of knitting classes, too. If you click the image below, it will open up an email to Linda of Viva Spain Travel, who is organizing the travel arrangements for our cruise, or you can just mail her yourself at vivaspaintravel@gmail.com
I know at least one LYS owner who’s indicated she wants to go, as well as alumnae from our cruise a few years ago when I was teaching for Debbie Stoller. It’s going to be a BLAST. I promise:
1. Not to sing “I’m On A Boat” TOO many times, but to refer to all footwear as “flippy floppies” no matter what
2. To do my hilarious Leonardo DiCaprio-in-Titanic “King of the World” impersonation and
3. If on a smaller boat, I will pretend we are in the Duran Duran video “Rio” for your amusement.
We need to have some headcounts in by July, so if you’re at all interested, talk to Linda soon!
by Shannon on May 1, 2013
(If you are a Buffy nerd you just heard this in your head, didn’t you?)
I have been having an internal struggle about what to do with the blog during its planned renovation this year. As part of a larger transformation (improving pattern layouts and instructions, doing some re-branding for the Knitgrrl patterns and getting new ones released that have been hung up during the transition), I need to decide just what happens HERE going forward.
See, way back in 2002 when I first started the knitblog, there weren’t many blogs period, let alone knitting ones. (First entry. Feel free to laugh). There was no Ravelry, no Facebook, no Twitter, no YouTube, no Instagram, no social media as we know it now. Two years after that first blog post I was sitting on a 2-book contract for the Knitgrrl books. Ten years after that post and I’m running my own knit publishing company with 20-ish available titles, not even counting the 12+ I’d written myself.
My head is spinning just thinking about it!
There are thousands of subscribers to my mailing list, which is often neglected because I don’t like sending out emails without a point. (Oh hi, beloved mailing listers! I am going to mail you about this, though!), and I know from the stats how many of you read the blog, so it’s not like I’m just going to abandon it.
Instead, I want to ask you what you want. What you need. How I can make this a more helpful and better destination for you. And so I’m doing a survey… one where you can win up to $100!
Go here and tell me what you want, what you really really want.
(First Whedon, then the Spice Girls? What is this world coming to, anyway?)
