sorry about all the silence around here the last week or so. i've been sooooo busy getting my big secret project ready to go! and guess what? i'm ready to talk about it today!
i'm nervous about it so let's just come right to the point. i've decided to start my own online knitting magazine, Popknits. it's a little different than some of the other knitting mags in that it will specialize in vintage knitting, vintage knitting revived, so to speak.
i've been looking longingly at the vintage vogue knitting magazines i've had lying around for years now. so many ideas have been swirling through my mind on how to update some of the styles i see in them that i just couldn't get them out. then with the popularity of nancy bush, elizabeth zimmerman, and the amazing thrift store finds (cool and fun pattern books and magazines) i've been seeing on other blogs, an idea started to brew. sarah pope pushed me in the right direction and i found focus.
you can read more details over on the site but i'd like to mention a few things here.
- i'll probably end up extending the pattern submission deadline for the first issue because it's closing in on us so fast, but the sooner you submit the better! i have to tech edit most of the patterns myself so i need as much time as i can get. that and i still have to develop the patterns and articles templates in my CMS so i have a lot of work to do.
- yes, i did the design and build all on my own (which is why i seem to get nothing else done.)
- seems like my timing is good with the demise of magknits (though i swear [and you can ask the spiders] i've been working on this for close to two years now!] i just want you to know that i read all the forums on ravelry concerning magknits and have hopefully learned from them.
- i'm timing my issue launches a little late for a reason. i don't want to interfere with the launches of my big sisters, knitty and knotions. hopefully by staggering my launches a little later we can all get good traffic.
i'm sure i'll think of more to say in the next few weeks but i'll save it for the Popknits News blog. if you subscribe to the feed you'll get all the information as fast as i can post it!
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