…or some of them are, anyway. At the moment, 6 of my 2022-23 BuildingBlox virtual workshops are live on YouTube and beginning to rack up views. There are 16 more that I’ve prepared and uploaded; the final stage is to watch through each one and put in timestamps so people can jump to the most useful parts for them. This is a time-consuming process but at least it’s something I can do from anywhere.
The plan is that I will release them in roughly the same order they came out as workshops — so of course the Intro one was first, then Designing Two-pattern Double-knitting, etc etc. I really want to get them all done and out there before society collapses this Fall (only sort of tongue-in-cheek there). I am also planning to embed them into my workshop pages on my website.
If you’re not already subscribed to my Youtube channel, I recommend you subscribe so you can be notified when new workshops are posted!
Book sales are in a slump
I can’t really reduce the book prices much more; at this point I am sort of regretting not continuing to sell them through Amazon because even though I’ve done a couple of guild presentations and virtual workshops, I’ve still got a lot of books left. My hope had been to sell them all by October — because the machine I use for fulfillment is running Windows 10, which will expire by then. But at this rate I may just need to move my fulfillment software to my main machine so I can continue past October. So it goes.
According to my website, the current count is:
- Extreme Double-knitting: 166 copies left
- Double or Nothing: 365 copies left
- Parallax: 57 copies left
I am hoping the Youtube videos will expose more people to my work and more books may sell. We’ll see. In the meantime, if you know of anyone who’d enjoy my books in physical form and doesn’t yet have them, please either buy them as gifts or forward a link to my store. Thanks for any word-of-mouth help you can offer!
In other news
I don’t often put personal stuff in here (OK, maybe that’s not true given all the ways my personal life has affected my ability to do knitting stuff) but any signal-boosting I can do can only help.
I live in Boston and am car-free — instead, I ride an ebike. It’s a Class-1, so before you assume I’m one of those awful people speeding on the sidewalks and knocking down pedestrians, my bike has to be pedaled and can’t go any faster than a regular bike piloted by a fit rider. Or more to the point, it couldn’t — it was stolen a couple of weeks ago. This has been a big setback for me, mobility-wise. I ride 10-20 miles per day to get to work and back. I was approaching 15,000 miles on the bike’s odometer when it was stolen. I have a backup (non-electric) bike but it is a chore to ride such a long distance.
It’s an expensive bike — but insurance won’t cover it without heavy consequence after all the insurance we’ve used for the fire over these past several years. I’ve set up a GoFundMe if anyone wants to help me get back on my feet/wheels. I don’t expect it’ll be fully funded, but even if it reduces the amount I have to shell out, it’ll be worth it. Thank you for any help you can offer.
