Hello from Anna Kuduja – Our New Designer
January 11th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Hello, I am Anna. Thank you for inviting me here. Nice to join the team!
The Editor writes:
Welcome, Anna!
A wonderful way to bring in 2011 – we welcome Anna Kuduja to our designer group.
2010 was a good year for us, with major new input from Boknits, two fabulous bodywear designs and three more currently being tested.
Brenda is continuing to slowly churn out accessories, but this coming year will be writing up a fairisle skirt pattern and a small range of items inspired by the land and sea-scape around where she lives. There’ll be fairisle in this too, mittens and a cowl, but also a suite of hedgerow inspired outerwear for the autumn.
Lisa was the backbone of the site in 2009 with her wonderful homewear and accessories, and is promising us lovely new things for 2011. She’s our technical expert, and we might see a website rebuild sometime later in the year as we develop our range.
So that’s four! We’re very happy at that number while we learn about each other and begin to think through some sort of house philosophy or unifying theme.
We are still keen to hear from guest designers, in particular my own irl friend who is a crocheter, expert with colour, and has several designs, so we can expect to tease one of them out of her for our 2011 collection.
All is looking good and the future is bright!
Our next stage is patterns for sale to add a whole new range, working on shopping and checkout buttons, with the original free range gathered together into a minibook which we can publish for sale.
Exciting days are ahead!
2010 in Review
January 2nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 21 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 56 posts. There were 88 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 44mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was December 9th with 818 views. The most popular post that day was Kingsbridge Legwarmers.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were ravelry.com, knittingpatterncentral.com, unikatissima.de, whipup.net, and rokken3.dk.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for missoni, jamaica pattern crochet bag, masa bag, cowls, and crochet tote pattern.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Kingsbridge Legwarmers December 2010
3 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,
Masa Bag March 2009
25 comments and 2 Likes on WordPress.com
Fireside Fingerless Mittens November 2010
1 comment
Instructions for folding the Masa Bag March 2009
16 comments
Moby Dick Cable Controller March 2009
4 comments
