i'm not infected, really
i run macintosh systems, both at work and at home, so i don't have any viruses on my system. if you get a message from amy@ and it's got one of the subject lines below or *most importantly* an attachment, which you can trust that i will never send in a knitty update, you'll know it's a virus. just delete the message without opening the attachment.

info to share that was shared with me by someone who got blasted: Systems that are infected with this virus are programmed to automatically send infected e-mail messages to everyone in the infected user's address book. There are several potential subject lines in the virus such as "hi", "hello", "test", "server report", "status", "error", and more. Read more here.

[this is the part that's happening to me...and probably you, too!]This virus may also spoof your address. You may receive a notice in your Inbox telling you that a message you sent was blocked by a recipient because it contained a virus - yet you know that you did not send a message to the recipient identified. This does not mean that you have this virus, but that the virus has identified your e-mail address as real, and it is sending itself to other recipients to look as though it is coming from you.

As always, please do not open messages from users you don't know; do not insert diskettes from foreign places into your computers until they have been scanned; and keep the virus protection software on your home systems updated at all times.

Knitty's spring issue...
Sometimes, good things have repercussions that you don't expect.

In this case, the result is this: the spring issue will be coming out in mid-April, not March as previously scheduled. The cause? Too much good stuff is happening at once in my part of the world.

You may know that I'm writing a knitting book that is due to be published this fall by Harper Collins. All the writing and editing is happening right now, and I won't let Knitty suffer by not giving it the attention it deserves. So it's better to delay the spring issue a little in order to produce a quality issue.

We expect the spring issue will be extra big [we already have a good stash of goodies submitted early], and we'll probably sneak a little summer stuff in there, as well, to thank you for waiting extra long. The summer issue will be coming out mid-June, and will probably be smaller than usual.

By fall, all will be back to normal.

And a word from our sponsors :-) :
We have some really sweet advertisers in the current issue. Please support them by clicking their Knitty ads when you need to make a knitting-related purchase. It's good for everyone!

p.s. Some nice people have written to ask the name of the book. I promise to post all the details here as soon as I have them. Thanks for asking!

Show news!

[from a press release I received via e-mail today]

Toronto: The 7th Annual Downtown Knit Collective Spring Frolic will be held on Saturday, April 10th at the Toronto Botanical Gardens (formerly the Civic Garden Centre) located in Edwards Gardens in Toronto.

This magnificent building, built in a combination of stone and glass is airy and bright. Our marketplace will be located in the H.B. Dunnington Grubb Floral Hall, which with an area of 3400 square feet will provide lots of space for our vendor's booths. It has a stage with a microphone and full kitchen. In addition, we have booked lots of classrooms for our knitting workshops. We are just calling for workshop proposals and are thrilled that well known teachers and designers Maureen Mason-Jamieson, Fiona Ellis and Joanne Yordanou plus many more will once again be participating!

This location is wheelchair accessible and has ample free parking. It is easily accessible from Highway 401 via the Leslie Street or from the Don Valley Parkway via Lawrence Avenue. For TTC travellers, there are buses from both the Eglinton and Sheppard Stations.

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I'm going. See you there!