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Magknits Patterns

April 23, 2008

Well! I know if you haven't got anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all, but I find it hard! I was VERY ANNOYED when I realised Magknits had been deleted forever. No, that's not true, because it is Kerrie's site to do what she wants with, but I was annoyed not to be given any warning.

The only way I found out is because I suddenly got a load of emails requesting a copy of the Hug pattern. Then I read all about it on Ravelry and found out the details. I have just spent the evening searching through the internet archive site, copying my patterns down, tidying them up, putting them into pdfs and uploading them - which I am more than happy to do (I would hate to see my designs die a sudden death if nothing else!) but yes, as I said, it would have been nice to be warned, so I could do it at my leisure and not from some massive cache that kept crashing and making me panic.

So here they are! In the next day or so I will update the information on Ravelry and on my free patterns page so everyone can find them without confusion, but in the meantime here are the links to the pdfs:

For Hug, click here.
For Kidsilk, click here.
For Tropical Sunset, click here.
For Nimbus, click here.
For Jessica, click here.
For Colleen, click here.

And now it is time to have a glass of wine and breathe a sigh of relief.

I just read this through and thought I should mention that these are all old patterns of mine - all the word docs disappeared with my old laptop, and since I thought they would be online for the forseeable future I didn't back them up - hence the panic!

Posted by jen at April 23, 2008 08:59 PM

Comments

It was quite annoying for me that the site was taken down without warning, but as you said, it was Kerrie's to do with as she pleased. I feel sorry for you and the other designers who weren't even informed about it. Thank you so much for sharing your designs here.

Posted by: Donna at April 23, 2008 09:53 PM

Oh you're a star for making the patterns available again! I've had Hug at the top of my queue for such a long time, and I was fretting about not being able to find the pattern. Thanks so much!

Posted by: goldfishgirl at April 23, 2008 11:13 PM

Thank you for making the patterns available.

Posted by: Victoria at April 24, 2008 12:28 PM

I was mostly sad that Magkits had to be taken down, and I'm sure it was tough for everyone. :( But I was just wondering if you were going to put your patterns up on this site, because I was thinking of knitting Nimbus one day. It looks so nice and warm! :) I look forward to reading more about your current projects. :D

Posted by: Dagný at April 24, 2008 12:34 PM

Thanks for doing all that work!

Posted by: monica at April 24, 2008 04:31 PM

Thanks for putting the patterns up on your blog and doing all the work to get them up! Hope you enjoyed your wine :)

Posted by: Lynnette at April 24, 2008 06:03 PM

Thanks for putting the patterns up again. I thought of you when I first heard the news as I know you were a regular contributor to Magknits. It's a shame that a good resource has now gone.

Posted by: Anne at April 25, 2008 04:13 PM

Thanks for retrieving, editing and posting all the patterns for us!

Posted by: smug sheep at April 28, 2008 05:15 PM

Thank you so much for this, I think I was one of the ones hassling you for patterns, and yes I was very disappointed to find the patterns just gone! Thanks again for doing this and so quickly too.

Posted by: Melita at May 2, 2008 04:05 AM