Thanks for landing here on String-or-Nothing. Long time readers know what I’ve got in my pocketses – usually something to knit or stitch.
Some of you may know me from other venues, most notably, as Countess Ianthé d’Averoigne, OL, OR in the Society for Creative Anachronism; in which I am an artifact of the distant past. Professionally, I am a proposal manager and writer specializing in engineering and high tech research and products, but that’s my day job.
I am abetted in this venture by my family, including the daughters, Elder and Younger (both knitters and budding grrlnerds); and by the husband – without whose support and encouragement I’d be stitching in a back room somewhere without the fun of sharing.
Right now Younger Daughter and I have the additional delight of living the Expat Life, accompanying The Resident Male on his posting in Pune, Maharashtra, India, where everything is new, strange, and perfumed with cumin.
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Hi Kim — I downloaded the Blackwork book in the 4 pieces. I have an app that allows me to take multiple PDF documents and ‘bind’ them into one. Here is a link to that utility: http://code.google.com/p/pdfbinder/. I was able to bind together other PDF Documents, but not the 4 Blackwork pieces. I even deleted them from my drive and did it again. Is there something that is prohibiting me from combining them into one book?
Pat – I used Acrobat Professional to make a standard issue PDF of the document. However I limited editing rights on the four pieces because I’ve had problems before with people taking my material, putting a new cover on it and passing it off as their own. I’m afraid limiting editing rights also limits the permissions that the pdfbinder utility relies on for document reassembly I apologize to you and to others who have legitimate reason to want to stitch the doc back together, but are inconvenienced by this precaution. -K.
Thanx for letting me know. All the binding does is concatenate the documents into one file. I would have thought you could do this without being subject to editing.
I love the book and understand your desire to protect it. Thank you for sharing.
BTW, your 1st book is selling for $218 on Amazon right now.
Pat Kamperschroer
I know! I wish I had authors’ copies beyond my now tattered #001 from the first numbered printing. Some people have asked how to get a hold of a copy of The New Carolingian Modelbook. The answer is, aside from the used market where it is going for quite a premium, I haven’t a clue.
Sadly all I can report is that the publishers absconded shortly after publication. I have no idea where they went, and have had no replies from them to any queries since 1996. I received only about a year of royalties on the first 100 or so copies, in spite of the fact that the book went through two printings with an estimated total run of 3,000. New copies continue to trickle onto the market even today (they’re sold as used but mint). The new-copy seller has rebuffed myattempts to find the ultimate source.
Moral of the story – don’t enter into publication contracts without a literary agent, and if the company has a name like “Outlaw Press” there’s probably a reason.
K.
Thank you for your generous offer.
Only through experience do we truly learn.
But when one’s trust is shattered it is surely a bitter pill to take.
Just remember Outlaws do get caught.
All the best
Hi – the link to the chart with the vintage and modern needle sizes seems to be broken. I even tried the wayback machine, and did find it there, but just as a blank chart. I heard it was a great resource and was hoping to take a look. Thanks for all the great information.
Thanks! EVERYTHING broke when we ported the site from a leased server to WordPress. I’m retrieving, reposting and correcting as I can. I’ll move this one to the top of the priority list. -k.
Thanks for you generosity. There are not that many resources out there that have such a wealth of patterns to think about. I am a beginner with blackwork and am trying to put some of the patterns into my own designs. Haven’t done much so far.
Happy to help, Mary! The more tools and tinkertoys we all have, the richer will be the final creations. I’d love to see what you eventually come up with. Enjoy! -K.
I enjoyed your articles graphing knitting patterns 1-4 so much. Have you taken them down? Are they still available?
Thanks, Laura! Apologies for the inconvenience. When we ported the entire 8+ year run of posts to the new server, many things broke, and I’m still sorting them out.
The graphing tutorial series is still available, although the link locations have changed. You can find the entire 8-part series (including the original four posts) here: http://string-or-nothing.com/category/reference-shelf/tutorials/graphing-knitting-patterns/
You can also get to it via the sidebar to the right, it’s indexed under “Reference Shelf.” Eventually, I’ll add quick hop tags to the tab at the top of the page for all of the tutorial series I’ve posted.
Thanks for your patience, and for bringing this to my attention. -Kim
Kim,
Laura Talla forwarded to me the information that you are doing “a modern redaction and adaptation of a Duchrow pattern.”
I would love to talk with you about Christine Duchrow. I am working on a book that is based upon Duchrow designs. I keep hitting a brick wall in my attempt to obtain information about Duchrow’s life. I have also made some interesting discoveries.
You can either e-mail or call.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Answered privately.
thanks so much for the link! and thanks even more for publishing these wonderful articles. they helped me back up to speed with charting as well as confirming what i made up about how to chart uneven stitch counts. just charted Barbara Walker’s “Bell Lace” (vol 2, p 291.) It was challenging to me to decide where to put no stitch spaces to best represent the pattern visually and also to group stitches to make knitting and memorizing easiest. Maybe they are one in the same?
Agree! The dreaded “no-stitch” boxes are useful both for making the charted pattern congruent with the appearance of the final product, and for visually offsetting or grouping stitches into units that are more easy to parse out or memorize. I’m working on a large chart right now, a modern redaction and adaptation of a Duchrow pattern for an upcoming offering here. These no-stitch boxes and their placement are key to the whole venture.