How about another installment of learning to make a magazine? First to set the stage — here’s where we are in the grand scheme of cycles and status: End of the Autumn 2014 cycle Middle of the Winter 2014 cycle Planning of the Summer 2015 cycle That sounds easy enough, right? Let’s look closer, things […]
Man alive, did you just love Anne Podlesak’s new design in the Twist issue of PLY? I adore it. I also adore the woman that modeled it for us. So wonderful. We were just out shooting and out runs this woman with my book in hand asking me to sign it, saying she’d just taken […]
Spinzilla — there are a whopping 56 teams of awesomeness this year and we’re one of them! Each team is allowed 25 spinners and those spinners spin spin spin from Oct 6-11th. Then all the yardage is counted up and whichever team has more — wins! Of course it does other things too, good things — […]
Everybody that’s been with us from the beginning knows that we, collectively, knew nothing about running a magazine when this whole adventure started, right? Nothing. The big ZERO (coincidentally, the same of stitches I’ve knit in the last month). I hadn’t the foggiest what made Amy Clark Moore and Linda Cortright so tired. Now I do. […]
You may have noticed that we try to do most of the photography in house. That’s not just because Bernadette has mad photo skills, but also because I really think it gives an issue a cohesive, beautiful feel. Of course, there are always things we can’t shoot — photos about a location, about a person, […]
Using a random number generator and the comments on the last blog post, it turns out that luck was on the side of Maureen Brown tonight! She’s our fiber winner! Shipping out to her is 6 ounces of Spunky Eclectic’s Golddigger in merino/linen! Stay tuned, we have the fiber from Anne Podlesak’s Brighton top to give […]
I know that Bernadette, PLY’s photographer and my very best friend, is catch-your-breath-fall-down gorgeous (not to mention talented). It’s also true that anything, absolutely anything, would look beautiful on her. But given all of that, the Elektron scarf, by Kristy Howell from issue #4, really is stunning. There’s something about the delicate lace, the slightly rustic […]
We are sad to announce (here and on the Twist issue’s extra page) that we made a mistake. A big mistake. Through no fault of the author, in the issue about twist, in the photos in article about measuring twist angle — we totally did it wrong. See, you’re supposed to line your yarn up […]
This is the nicest website I’ve ever been allowed to post on. Seriously. It’s nice. Right? After a year, 5 issues to be exact, I decided it was time. The magazine deserved a website that reflected how awesome it is, how hard everybody involved in it works, how much great information it holds, and now […]
