Just a Toe
If you haven’t heard yet, Magknits has shut down it's website and taken the site totally off line. No real notice, no archive, no access to patterns, nothing. I heard through Ravelry, and let me tell you, people are pretty darn angry. I did read somewhere that they gave the designers 24 hours notice to get their patterns down off the site if they wanted. That isn't much time. In the middle of knitting a pattern - you are now out of luck. I'm just not sure why they didn't give a month notice. Even a week. But 24 hours? That is just crazy. The designers are coming through though. More and more I'm reading of them putting the patterns up on their blogs, or as free downloads. Talk about pattern support. To me it seems like a huge faux pas on their part - I can only imagine how many emails they are getting in response to the sudden disappearance of the site and all it's patterns. I just hope it all works out and no one gets stranded without a pattern to work from!
Don't forget to check out the Countdown To Sheep and Wool blog. Contests, lots of great pictures and info about the festival and especially the Cloverhill booth! Only 22 days to go!
On a happier note, I am almost halfway done with sample sock #2. I took a bunch of pictures last night in the waning daylight hours to send off to the designer. This is about all I can show you....
To pass the time, as promised, some cute photos of the boys. Ace is getting so big. It's really hard to believe he will be 8 months old next week! He's starting to mature and get his big boy coat. I think he is almost 40 pounds, and has about another 10 to go. His coat has a long way to go though - with the show lines in his breeding, he should be Mr. Fluffy! I'm enjoying the shorter coat now though. I know it always won't be this easy to care for!
Otis couldn't help but stick his nose into the photo shoot - literally.
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