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Sneak Peek of the Autumn Issue!
/in Frontpage ArticleDid you get an email from us that it’s time to renew your subscription? If so, all renewals must be in by Friday, August 25, 2017, in order to get the next issue, which comes out September 10! Remember we have digital subscriptions now! Semi semi semi! Yarns exist on a spectrum with the most […]
Announcing: PLY Books!
/in Frontpage ArticleBIG NEWS! PLY is doing something new and exciting! Are you ready? Brace yourself, it’s big! PLY is publishing books! We’ve wanted to publish books from the beginning but we had to learn how to make a magazine first. Then we had to learn how to throw an event. Now that we’ve got a pretty […]
Make sure you download your digital issue
/in Frontpage ArticleIt’s come to our attention that many of our readers haven’t been downloading their issues but rather just using the link we give them to look at it. You should be downloading your issues to your own device, not using the link to access it over and over. You purchased it and it’s yours! If […]
PLY is going digital!
/in Frontpage Article, NewsYou’ve been asking us for years, and we are so excited to be able to deliver what you want: digital issues of PLY! Since this is new, we’re going to try to answer all the questions we can, so keep reading! (Be sure to make it to the end, because we’ve got a giveaway to […]
The making of a prehistoric IKEA bag, Part 1
/in NewsEver wonder how people survived before the invention of those giant bags from IKEA? Apparently the answer is, they made their own! Christina Pappas shows us how it was done in this two-part post, starting today! When we last met, we took a long look at the slippers I’ll be replicating for this project. This […]