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I cast-on some lace socks the other night with my Jojoland Breeze yarn.

Here’s what they should look like when finished.

I originally got the pattern from MagKnits, but sadly, it is closed now. Here’s the good-bye letter:

Dear MagKnitters

I am really sad to have to tell you that we are no longer going to be
publishing free patterns on MagKnits. This has been one of the most
exciting web ventures I have ever been involved in, I am really proud of
the site and of what I managed to develop over the 4 years of running the
magazine.

However, MagKnits has always been a huge investment in terms of time
and effort and to date hasn’t actually paid me any kind of salary.
The advertising has always just about covered the cost of the payment to
tech editors, designers, web hosting and other sundry expenses. This was
not a problem while I had the free time and while I was enjoying the work.

However, over recent months my workload in other areas has increased
dramatically leaving me less time for MagKnits. I had hoped that by
combining Yarn Forward Magazine and MagKnits at the beginning of
this year we would be able to continue with the site but it is now
apparent that this is not going to work.

Lou and I have thought long and hard about what kind of action to
take, and as hard as it is for me to give up MagKnits I know that it
is the right thing for us to do. The amount of negative feedback we
have been receiving has hugely increased this year and to be
perfectly honest there is only so much of ourselves that we can give
to the site. Someone made a comment about us earlier in the week that we
would be stupid to run a business that didn’t pay us a salary, this made us
sit back and think “Yes, you’re right. We would be stupid to carry on
giving so much and getting little in return.”

The copyright on all of the patterns published by MagKnits remain
with the designers so they are all at liberty to publish the patterns
elsewhere, perhaps on their own blogs. We will be publishing free patterns
on the yarn forward website and would love to hear from any MagKnits
designers who would like us to consider a pattern previously published on
MagKnits for publication on Yarn Forward magazine.

Unfortunately giving up the site means that we will be giving up the
server space so will be unable to transfer the archives over as they stand.
We aim to have some of the archives rebuilt into the yf website in the
future but will need to negotiate with each designer before this can
happen. We’ll keep this list updated with progress and free pattern links.

Thank you for all your support over the last 4 years, you’ve been great. I
really mean that.

For more information please contact either Lou or myself on
magknits@yarnforwardmagazine.co.uk but note that although we may not be
able to reply to you immediately, we will get back to as soon as is possible.
Warm Regards

Kerrie

Many thanks to Kerrie and the rest of the MagKnits crew for all the patterns and a great online magazine!!

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I have another pair of BBS in the works:

I am hoping to knit one pair a month for the rest of the year. I’ve put myself on the list to do so at the SSF Ravelry group. This really motivated me to get on my BBS (big black socks) for soldiers!

And besides knitting, I’ve been spinning! Here’s a pic. of my progress so far on the other 2 oz. of roving I talked about in my earlier post:

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