Readers letters and ideas
I really do dig getting nice letters, tips and suggestions.
My inbox is overflowing so here are a few more:
Sunshine creations is prolific in her tutorials - here is one for making felt christmas decorations
Donni writes in with this:
I was wondering if you would be able to highlight a recent post of Ailsa’s - in regards to Knitpicks and the lack out shipping outside the US and Canada. She makes some fine point and I can’t help thinking that “Power of the People” might help this situation.
A simple request is to ask people to add their own thoughts so that we can try and bring this to Knit Picks attention. I guess its a matter of “if you don’t ask you don’t get”.
Baleema sent in a link to some christmas tags for download
Dear Whipup!
I am a daily reader of your wonderful site and nearly every time I am inspired or delighted. I love the sharing character of whipup and the crafty scene in general. This morning I made some Christmas tags that I am offering for download. It would give me the possibility to “give back something”.
Tanna writes in tell us about a collaborative craft blog in her town
Hello, my name is Tanna and I live up here in the cold north of Alaska. I absolutely adore your site and am always finding great tips on creating warm wear and other clever crafts. I have recently begun my own blog with a few other crafters here in town and would love suggestions, comments, or a link! We are at www.craftaddicts.blogspot.com.
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December 10th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
with regards to knitpicks i agree with everything that is said by knitabulous in her post. unfortunately many many US-based companies refuse to ship overseas stating one excuse or another. Others do provide you with the option but will only ship via courier (fed ex or ups) which is ridiculous considering that very often it is small, light weight items that you would like to order overseas. the excuse for using couriers is that the items have to be sent insured. What does that imply? it implies that non-US countries are indeed third world and that our postal services are unreliable or non-existant which i find downright ignorant and insulting. It makes me wonder whether those companies have any business sense considering there’s a lot of money to be made from our custom? Look at all the lovely people in blogland who sell their stuff on their websites and on etsy - a massive majority are gladly willing to send overseas, even if it means looking up postage. Now that’s true business sense!