Good to see that Kismet operates all over the internet. Another site that sells patterns announced a sale recently, and the site promptly went down for a while. Maybe it's one of the Unwritten Laws.

TNNA (www.tnna.org) is coming this weekend, and on Thursday Robin Melanson and Veronik Avery and I are driving from Toronto, Ontario to Columbus, Ohio for it. It'll take about eight hours, and since road trips with dear friends are one of my favorite things, the trip itself should be a joy, not just the show. We're hoping to meet a whole bunch of people for the first time-- like the wise and informed Therese Shere of Knitfinder, and the madly talented Janet Szabo of Big Sky Knitting Designs, to name just two-- and re-meet other old pals.

Since we have yet to figure out how to upload patterns reliably while hurtling along the Interstate, there may be a couple of sparse pattern-posting days. But have you noticed that after TNNA's, we tend to get some lovely new publishers? Fingers crossed.