Stitches East, T-Shirts, and More!

Whew!

What a week! Just 6 days after opening the online store, the company hosting my web space changed all of my servers, causing all email to bounce, the online store to stop working, the updates blog to cease working… everything broken! This all happened at 2 AM on Easter, leaving me somewhat in the lurch! 36 hours later, I was receiving email again, but if you sent anything to me via the Contact Us form, I didn’t receive it and, unfortunately, I never will. The good news is, if you sent in a subscription order, we did receive those because PayPal has a record of it, and your order has already gone out in the mail.

Meanwhile, the t-shirts were on their way to us, I was confirming several events, and not having my email was very, very difficult. I don’t know about you, but I clearly store about half of my brain on my computer!

The T-Shirts Are Here!

T-Shirts01.jpg The T-shirts have arrived at the shipping center and the first orders are already on their way to happy customers! More importantly, though, with the shirts in hand, I was finally able to tweak the shipping calculator to be more accurate (I’ve also refunded any overpayments on shipping from the initial pre-orders). Thanks to everyone who sent in feedback and suggestions on getting our shipping into sanity levels. In general, if you buy 1 t-shirt, you’ll be charged $4.90, 2-3 t-shirts you’ll be charged $7.10, and up from there. Child’s t-shirts are about half the weight of adults, and plus shirts are a little more– for example, ordering 4 adult sized shirts is $7.10, but 4 plus-sized shirts is the next price bracket.

International shipping is, as always, expensive, ranging from $11 for 1 shirt to Canada to $53 for up to 10 shirts worldwide.

On almost any t-shirt order, we can squeeze in a postcard pack or 2 without pushing it into the next price break.

Our stock numbers for shirts and postcards are accurate in the database. If you are able to place an order, it means that we have enough of the item in stock to ship to you.

Events

Looking at my October travel schedule, I saw that I’d be flying back from London just days before Rhinebeck… and New York is a common stopover from London, right? So I’m going to extend my stopover by a couple of weeks, go to Rhinebeck as an attendee, and then…. show at Stitches East! Knit Princess and I have decided to share a booth, so we’ll both be there with tiaras and superhero masks, ready to sell and sign comic books all weekend long! So, the upcoming show calendar is:

Issue #2: Coming SOON!

Issue #2 is coming soon– it’ll out at the end of April– probably shipping on April 29th or 30th. I may be hand-carrying them into Stockton for the Knit Witz event, even! Once we’re shipping Issue #2, you won’t be able to start your subscription with Issue #1 anymore– you’ll have to buy it as a back issue, and only subscribers can order back issues from our site. Everyone else has to go to a yarn shop and buy it from a retailer (but you were going there anyway, weren’t you?)

We have a cute pattern for Issue #2, one which will give you a little bit of a challenge without being impossible (I promise). It uses an eco-friendly yarn from o-wool, and I think it’s a great project, and perfect for summertime.

Shout Outs

KnitPicks is having a blog contest to win Issue #1 and some yarn to go with it!

This is Unrelated but utterly cool. Hey– I have a few mask patterns if they’re interested in more ways to hide their secret identities!