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Added April 12, 2008

Hello Everyone,

I will try to make this as brief as possible as I don’t have much time. 

I had elected to retire from my day job last December and in fact still carry around in my purse my letter of resignation.   The CIO of the corporation I work for asked me if I would stay to work on the move of the datacenter as I am the only one who knows the system the hospitals use.  I had to promise him since he has the upmost respect for me. 

I did not realize the amount of time I was going to have to invest to prepare for the move.  I have worked the last 3 weeks straight for an avg. of 14 hrs a day.  I was just getting into my cd production and have two designers who are providing content for me when all this came along.  The scheduled moves for each of 6 hospitals is aggressive and I have to stick with it.

Once this has been completed, the middle of June is the end date, I will be back on schedule with KE. 

 I am also trying to deal with the death of my brother since February and that has set me back as well.   

 I am not going to give up on the site but I am committed and things will be working at a slow pace for the time being.  I have a couple of patterns I need to get up but am trying to find the time. 

 I am not looking for sympathy but for a little understanding and for those who believe in me, they will not be disappointed. 

Thanx for listening

Linda Bushby

Added March 14, 2008

My email is back up and functioning.  Last Tuesday my web hosting company had an issue with the email server and returned any mail going to .knittersedge.com.  I was not notified from the hosting company there was a problem.  I learned of this initially from Pam who mentioned she saw many posts from the keknitlist yahoo group.  After going online to the group and seeing the messages from there, I could see this was a problem.  I phoned the hosting company support team and read them the riot act.  They claimed there was a message posted however accessing their site 2 days in a row, I never saw a message.  Not to worry, the email is back.  In the future if you should ever experience a problem, please send to lindabushby@comcast.net to inform me of the problem.  Again thank you for your support

Added February 16, 2008

Yes, I have done it.  I have gotten my very first Gold Show Video up on the web site.  I am quite satisfied with the results and have already gotten very positive response from members.  Thank you very much as I have enjoyed putting together the demo and will be doing many more in the future. 

Added January 28, 2008

I think most of you have read about my ill brother.  I am going to be leaving for California Thursday and will be returning the following week.  I will have access to email and will be able to answer any questions you may have.  Victoria is starting another wonderful KAL on the KEKnitlist at the yahoo groups which is the making of Gladys Goodey's afghan.  This Tuck stitch afghan is beautiful and we have the honored pleasure of having Gladys help with any questions, if we should need it. 

Added January 20, 2008

The holidays have past and I hope all had a great time with family and friends.  I know I did however I was blessed with the stomach flu on Christmas Eve and it did not go away until the following Friday.  We all got through and it will be memorable.  My daughter did not want me to feel bad so she told everyone to come over in their PJ's knowing I would be in mine so we had a Christmas Pajama party.  It was fun.

What have I been doing?  Well at the moment, I have a terminally ill brother in the VA hospital in Long Beach California and though I live in Illinois, I have been spending many hours on the phone doing what I can for him.  This will be my priority for the next couple of weeks.  This may call for an emergency visit to Long Beach which I should know in a few days.  I ask for your patience during this time.

I have also had some problems with my outgoing email for Knitters Edge which prohibits me from sending outgoing.  This is vital for newsletters and renewal notices.  They are making changes to provide us with better service and I am scheduled for the change to take place on the 22nd of Jan. so we shall see what happens at that time.  I can receive incoming but cannot send outgoing.  I have been using my comcast.net email to try and get important info to some who require it. 

I have put up a few things on the Diamond and Gold sites but have not been able to send the newsletter.   When I have the time to add content, I may not have the extra time to email a newsletter for that one piece of content so, I will  write and send one newsletter (bi-monthly) instead of sending a newsletter each time I add to the site. This will be temporary until a better plan has been created.  If you visit the site, you will see the main gold or diamond page with the new items being shown and the dates added.

Please feel free to contact me at linda@knittersedge.com with questions or requests.

Again thank you for your support

Linda Bushby

Added December 6th 2007

As we get ready to begin a new year, let's think about what each of us can do for the knitting industry and how can we make a difference.  How can I make a difference? I think I am going to try to convert 10 people to become hand/machines knitters.  I am going to make Knitters Edge the absolute best knitting resource, providing knitters of all levels with, some great tools.  I am going to listen more to what the members are needing and try to fulfill that need.  That is just a start. Have you started? 

This month I sent an email to all the inactive members of Knitters Edge back to the beginning of time allowing them an opportunity to re-activate their membership at the renewal rate of 50.00 for Gold and 15.00 for Diamond.  I have recieved an overwhelming response to this offer.  I thank each and every one who found their way back home.  I did get many returned e-mails back as the addresses are no longer or have been changed.  If you should happen to find your way to this page, and would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please email Linda@KnittersEdge.com and we will get you back online. 

Some of you may be wondering, what will be new in 2008 for Knitters Edge. 

First, I will be freeing up my time to devote resources to the site.  I am going to create new programs such as a referal program to allow it's members the oportunity for free months to the site.

I will be working on the creation of the Crochet site which will be free to members holding membership to other sites.  A slight fee will be charged for those  only wanting the crochet site and no other. 

I am also going to open a patterns section for members to provide other members with their own creations. These patterns will not be altered and will most likely not have the KE format.

I have in a testing phase for the Gold Show Video to continue on and also to be created in different formats provideing options for viewers up to the High Dev format.  The site format will be the same. 

These are just some of the new things to look forward to.  I look forward to creating in 2008 and now it is on to getting a pattern ready for the site.

thank you so much for your support and have a great holiday.

Linda

Added September 19th,  2007

It has been brought to my attention, a few members are having problems viewing some of the patterns on the Gold site.  I believe we have narrowed this down to a browser problem.  The FireFox, and Safari seem to have problems in formatting tables in the code.  I have read my web reports and this constitutes approximately 10% of the users visiting the site.  I have e-mailed Mozilla asking for a code fix to allow the tables to be properly formatted.  I am not sure how long this will take to fix.  In the meantime, I am going to say, please use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, or the Netscape browser.  If using FireFox, you can change the page style from the view button in the task bar, to no style.  It is still not pretty but is readable.  This will remove the table all together.  If you change the view back, the mess will reoccur. 

Thank you for your patience

Linda Bushby

Added July 5th 2007

 I am so pleased to announce lessons for Knitware are now here at Knitters Edge.  I have surveyed the group and found many loved this enhancement.  Ada Lai, owner of the software from Great Knit Designs,  and  Technical support Heather Thompson have agreed this would benefit many of the Knitters Edge members.  This tool is available for both the Diamond and the Gold site members.  The first two lessons have already been put up on the site.  You can find the link on the Diamond/Gold sites main page under the Quick Link section.  You can look ahead to many more lessons by Heather.   Heather is also a member of the KEKnitlist so you may see chatter in the classroom as well.  Should you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact Heather or myself.

With the addition of Knitware, you will now have the opportunity to choose a tool which will suit you best, DAK tool, or Knitware tool. Both are available for you to learn.  New DAK content will be added to the site as well.  I hope you will cherish this new addition and see the future of Knitters Edge as positive and upward. 

You will also notice many cosmetic changes taking place on the site for both the Gold and the Diamond sites.  Again I hope these are a welcome change. 

Another change to be taking place in the very near future will be putting the Silver site to sleep.  I cannot justify the cost difference between the Gold and the Silver.  Gold offers far too much content, Silver is less than 7% of the total membership, it is double effort for me to keep up this site.  The Silver members have been sent a newsletter explaining this and have been offered an enrollment to Gold at a reduced subscription for the first year. 

Also, Victoria is leading the second KAL on KeKnitlist.  We are working on summer tops.  We are in the swatching stage so if you have not visited us, please do so.  You will have fun.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you do

Linda Bushby

Added June 19th 2007

Hello to All,

I just know you have not been wondering what I am doing.  First I would like to say I am putting some things into motion and once I get them finalized I will be making an announcement.  I do feel you will like the good news I will be sharing which should be within the next week or so.   

Next, I want to give you a schedule, which I will follow, to see you get some content on the site.  I am going to have content on the site on the 1st and the 15th of the month.  The Gold Show video will be up on the 15th starting in July.  The June Gold Show will be up next week.  Some weeks you may have more content than other.  Not only will the Gold site be updated, but the Diamond site as well.  Beside the videos, you will be seeing new techniques, patterns, tips n tricks, DAK, lessons and stitches.  Now this does not mean you will see all this every month.  We all know there are not enough hours in the day for that. 

The next news letter is just about ready for delivery.  I will be getting that together tonight and mailed out. 

For the Silver subscribers, please read the information in your site regarding membership. 

Please stayed tuned for more information as I get it ready.  I think you will like some of the "little" changes which are about to take place. 

I can't thank each and every one of you for all your support and wonderful kind words I hear everyday. 

Linda Bushby
Knitters Edge