No More Magknits
Help! When I went this evening to look at the instructions for decreasing on the Odessa hat again, I found this:
When I typed in the URL for Magknits, I found this depressing news:
Dear MagKnittersThis email was sent to MagKnits designers from March and April as well as the magknits newsletter list at 5pm GMT on 8th April 2008
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 the notify 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 magknitsATyarnforwardmagazine.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
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When I typed in the URL for Magknits, I found this depressing news:
Dear MagKnittersThis email was sent to MagKnits designers from March and April as well as the magknits newsletter list at 5pm GMT on 8th April 2008
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 the notify 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 magknitsATyarnforwardmagazine.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
posted by Lydia Agnew Speller at 6:15 PM
3 Comments:
Odessa's been put up as a free Ravelry download!
I'm so happy! I thought that might happen but I hadn't discovered it yet!
I'm excited to see how the Ravelry downloads work out, it'll be great to have everything in one place.
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