The server move is nearly complete. I successfully reinstalled the photo gallery, only to realise that most of the photos were missing so I'm uploading them now and will need to reinitialise the software to get them to show up. My comments form is also not working so if you need to contact me you can email me at sarah at knitting-and dot com in the meantime.

I have lots of new and exciting things to add to the website once everything is working again, more than enough for at least a year or two!

I will be adding a whole section on using these (including the contents of this booklet):

These are vintage Singercraft tools which are used to make all sorts of things. You can use them to make shag pile rugs, toys, patterned tufted fabrics, fancy trimmings for sewing, afghans, monograms among other things. I have loads of public domain instructions that I'm going to put online, plus I'm going to have a play with using them and see what projects I can come up with.

Carol from the Butterfly Loom has issued me with a challenge to see how many different techniques I can come up with for using her butterfly looms.

We had a great conversation about the looms and she gave me lots of ideas to play with. I plan to wind, weave, felt and fringe my way into oblivion with those. And I'll share all the instructions with you :-)

I succumbed to temptation (and the fact that I really love my Clover suffolk puff yo-yo makers) and purchased these from ebay to complete my Clover yo-yo maker collection. The flower and heart come in two sizes, big and small. I bought both.

So expect some sewing projects using those :-)

Come to think of it, I've almost finished making the 1,600 suffolk puffs for the coverlet I'm making so I could document how I sew it together and make that a sewing project for the website.

I will also be adding a section to the website about Teneriffe lace and the Polka Spider Web tools. I have several booklets from 1939 that I want to make available for download, plus a huge collection of different shaped pin templates that I have drawn up.

Here's a photo of the cover of one of the vintage booklets for a teaser:

This booklet has instructions and templates for 6 square designs and 6 round designs. I'm not sure whether they were originally all in one booklet but the full set of instructions is there for all 12 designs.

I will also be investigating texture and multicolour weaves on the weavette looms, inspired by this photo by abmatic that I found on flickr.

Add those to all the things I was already doing (knitting wiki, home work book, vintage embroidery patterns, original and vintage sewing patterns etc) and I think that will be enough new stuff for a couple of years at least!