22 September 2006
Look, looooooook!:
The Crafter's Companion is finished printing, and I have the first copy! (The rest are on the slow boat to the UK.) The very first copy of Crafter's Companion. And all I had to do was spend an entire year making it!
The rest won't be here until 12 October, at which point they'll be available from the HipKnits stall at the Knitting and Stitching show (at Ally Pally). It's officially published the 18th of October, I believe, when it will be in UK shops. I'm going to talk to the Mermaid Princess about setting up a presales PayPal thing for orders direct from Snowbooks, because I'm not sure Amazon have themselves sorted for overseas orders (they certainly haven't bothered to update their bibliographic info for the book). I'll sound the alert if/when presales become available.
Wheeee! Wheee!
congratulations! on what looks like a job well done.
posted by stephanie s at September 22, 2006 05:01 PM
wow, it looks beautiful and interesting :) would definitely be interested in buying - from anywhere that ships to central europe!
posted by barbara at September 22, 2006 05:20 PM
Definitely Weeee! It is beautiful! I am so completely excited! What could be better than extremely talented people (you) talking about other extremely talented people!!! Yay for you! Can not wait!
posted by vegasandvenice at September 22, 2006 05:22 PM
omg, already ? can't wait to see it, this is so exciting :)
posted by Tania Ho at September 22, 2006 05:23 PM
Congratulations! Looks beautiful!
posted by Julie at September 22, 2006 06:59 PM
please do keep us updated on how to get it in the US - it look great!
posted by katie e. at September 22, 2006 07:22 PM
wow! it's so pretty... and crafty.... *covets*
congratulations! katie e. already said it, but i'll echo: keep us posted on availability to the US!
posted by miss lila at September 22, 2006 08:02 PM
(jumping up and down with enormous glee)
Hooray! You've put so much effort into this and I cannot wait to get it.
I'm a cover girl!!!!!!!!!!!! (secretly very. very pleased about that).
Thankyou so much for letting us be a part of it!!
posted by Alison at September 22, 2006 10:38 PM
I don't know what to do now, I pre-ordered it through amazon.uk only a few days ago. Do you think I should cancel my order...I'm in Australia.
posted by Belinda at September 22, 2006 11:17 PM
YES! I'm so excited for you - and to see this book!
posted by geek+nerd at September 23, 2006 01:25 AM
Congratulations! It looks beautiful. Thank you for letting me participate in this wonderful project!
posted by Mariko at September 23, 2006 01:40 AM
Hey! I recognize that bag on the cover! Whatever became of it, anyway? Congrats Anna, I'm really looking forward to picking this up!
posted by Gina at September 23, 2006 04:47 AM
Belinda -- I don't think I can say one way or another. There are pros and cons to both; if you've ordered from .co.uk before from outside the UK, you'll know better than I do about their service. At any rate, don't do anything until I'm sure I can actually set a Snowbooks presale up!
Gina -- I've still got that little bag. I want to include its pattern in my upcoming book (and by upcoming, I mean 'wayyy in the future'), so I'll be hanging on to it for a while longer.
posted by Anna at September 23, 2006 05:48 AM
I am incredibly impressed by all of this--congratulations and I am SO happy for you!
posted by Laura at September 23, 2006 10:45 AM
Yay! It looks great!
(I hope it will be available in Australia one day soon too!)
posted by Emma at September 23, 2006 12:04 PM
Whoo hooo!!! So exciting!
posted by scoutj at September 24, 2006 02:14 AM
Eeee! I know you've been working on it for a long time, but I'm also sort of, "OMG already?!"
Congratulations!! I can't wait to order a copy. The cover looks beautiful and I'm sure the inside is just as lovely. :)
posted by jessie at September 24, 2006 06:52 PM
it looks great - the cover screams buy me, buy me. I can't wait to see more.
posted by samantha at September 25, 2006 04:30 AM
Congratulations for the new book!!
posted by natascha at October 3, 2006 12:15 PM
Hi Anna,
I was searching for arts and crafts on Amazon and I can't believe it, YOUR NAME came up. Congratulations from a very surprised uncle Fred.
posted by Fred Mische at December 16, 2006 07:12 PM
This book has been life changing, life enhancing and a real inspiration. Thanks so much for doing it. I am blogging away happily and I have established that what I do is craft and that there are more people just like me and I never knew! I've even tried some of the patterns out with personal changes of course and they are great. What has been really useful is the what inspires section... so that's why I do it... also the cats and their behaviour! so much from a book I wasn't even looking for, well done & thanks
posted by lois pittman at January 24, 2007 03:41 PM