October News

This is a shorter email than usual as things are incredibly busy here at Janie Crow. After four days exhibiting at The Knit + Stitch Show at Ally Pally last week, and with the Stitchtopia trip to Morocco leaving this Saturday, I am chasing my tail even more so than usual. I hope you will forgive the slightly tardy nature of this week's email too as I was unable to send it on Friday. I promise we will be back to usual service when we send our Quick Catch Up email in a couple of weeks time. By then I hope to be able to tell you about something really exciting that I have had to keep my mouth shut about for months on end, so do look out for more news soon!
 
I have a few things to tell you about, so I hope you can spare a couple of minutes to catch up with our news.

Emma is a big fan of Christmas, and although I am not totally on board with this yet, there is no denying that us knitters and crocheters need to get organised pretty soon if we want to make gifts or decorations for the festive season. Emma recently sneaked onto the Instagram feed to post a feature on our festive decorations, which were designed and released in 2020. You can find the links to our Christmas patterns here.
 
We are continuing to showcase our decade of design on our social media channels. Over the last couple of weeks we have featured the Indigo Dreams blanket and The Blue House one. Both these projects were released in 2021.

I am incredibly excited about our trip to Morocco. I loved Marrakesh when I was lucky enough to be there a couple of years ago, so I am really looking forward to seeing more of the country and getting inspired by their incredible design heritage. I will be posting images on my Instagram feed while I am away, so do check it out.
 
My workshops with Stitchtopia are all sold out for next year, but I will be giving a talk, and having a pop up stand at the Stitchtopia Festival in March - you can find more information by following this link.

We currently have a good stock of kits and yarn packs and paper patterns. You can find download patterns available via Etsy and Ravelry.
 
If you are a fan of natural yarns, you can also find kits made using Yarnsmith's Superwash Merino DK on the Wool Warehouse site here. We hope to have new kits for the Climbing Rose Wrap on there this week.

We are happy to report that US postage is back up and running nicely. We hope we have found a good way for the new process to work going forwards and have tried to make it as straight forward as possible for those of you in the US.
 
We will be putting the website into holiday mode on Thursday of this week for almost a fortnight while we are away on the workshop trip. If you wish to make an order, our advice is to do so as soon as possible to ensure despatch before we go away.

For me, the thrill of designing something new and coming up with interesting colourways and stitch combinations is one of the biggest perks of my work, but unfortunately there are always people who think it's ok to copy, rather than come up with their own designs.
 
Recently we have been made aware of more and more copies and copyright infringements, so I am really pleased that ACID (Anti copying in Design) are offering a free seminar to designers and makers which aims to give more information on how to protect your design work.
 
You do not have to be a member of ACID to join the free webinar, which is on Wednesday 26th November at 12.30pm, but you do need to register. You can find more information by following this link.

Having not had a day off for a couple of weeks I feel like a few days off would be a lovely treat, but as I have so much to do I am already looking forward to next weekend! 
 
We have a few plans this week, which include meeting up with our daughter and the lovely puppy on Wednesday evening and I am also looking forward to some time at the gym (never thought I would say that!). I have a dentist appointment tomorrow, which I hope will be made better by a walk through the woods to get there. I still hate going to the dentist, but am aways happy when my teeth are squeaky clean afterwards!
 
I hope that whatever your plans are for the next couple of weeks, that you stay safe and happy. Sending much yarny love.