There's something about major media types signing up as members that makes our 3rd-party PDF delivery service go crackerdog. It was down for a little while today for only the second time in two whole years. The first time it went down (about four months after we went live) a Major Media Type had just signed up and ordered four patterns. Today, another Major Media type signed up and it cacked again.

Not only that, but the first copies of Vogue Knitting's Early Fall 2010 issue are reaching subscribers, and we are thrilled to be listed in Classic Elite's back cover ad (they say Cover Four in the industry) as the source for the gorgeous Princess Mitts and Princess Muff pictured there. They had let us know months ago that the ad was booked, but they wouldn't have had time to photograph and print and distribute hard copies to all the LYS's for the official magazine launch of 8 June-- would we mind if they used us to deliver the patterns? Mind? It took some arm-wrestling, but they talked us into it eventually. In fact we were gibbering with excitement.

All is now resolved and back to normal, but the timing! The circumstances around getting what you wish for can occasionally be prickly.

We will write a big long post on Thursday, 3 June, for reasons which will become happily apparent very soon.