All seems quiet, but things are not always as they seem.
I have been busily working on a few major projects while things have been drifting along at snail’s pace on the surface. Two of the projects are still in the supersecretsquirrel stages of testing, while the other has been released.
I had the pleasure of working with the delightful Hannah of Red Riding Hood Yarns in NZ to design some charts for the August installment of her Winter Yarn Club. The theme she set me was ‘Unicorns and Dragons’. I had a great deal of fun designing some yarny creatures for her club, the dragons being some of the most complex charts I’ve done for others to use.
This is my favourite one of the set. You can see the rest of the set on my Rav project page.
Hannah dyed hanks of her lovely NZ wool for each month, and it was a pleasure to recieve the ‘boy’ parcels each month, complete with little happy extras like lollies, stitch markers and buttons (by Benji!). There are rumours abounding that there will be another RRHY club coming soon. I hope it’s not until next year. I really need to knit down some stash to make room for more of these generous portions of woolley goodness. Thank you Hannah, for inviting me to be part of this fun adventure!
These mythical creatures will be available for sale here in March 2012, as Hannah is kindly only holding onto her exclusivity for 6 months.
More supersecretsquirrel releases coming soon…
I have updated the Tutorials page with links to all the current tutes. The latest tutorial is called Smooth Edges.
A little note about comments on this blog.
My return from blogging hiatus was celebrated by spending a week deleting 4,500 comments from moderation. I don’t know if any legitimate comments were left because I simply couldn’t read through that many comments. Instead I wiped them all, 20 at a time, with 675 clicks of my mouse. Yes, I did the maths. According to the purveyors of these dodgy products my blog is of incredible quality, I write like a professional, and my blog is being shared as a fabulous resource. I’m not convinced any of them have any idea what I write about though, so they had to go. 
I have set my comments to only allowing logged in wordpress users to submit comments. If I manage to figure out how to make it more open without a repeat of this time-wasting exercise of deleting mammoth amounts of spam I will. Until then you can contact me via email or on Rav. Sorry for the inconvenience. And if you have written a legitimate comment in the last few months, I’m sorry, I haven’t seen it. Please email me or PM me on Rav.
