The Knitting Fiend

I'm doing some blog organization: This is an up to date list of all most of my knitting blog articles that include any sort of calculating "thing". If you can't find the link you want on this page, here is a link to knitting calculators at the pre-blog site. Enjoy!
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A while back, I created a pretty nice list of knitting seminars. it manages to come out fairly high on a google search for “knitting seminars”, so I like to keep it up to date. However, it had some flaws. I didn’t have any decent way to insert contact information or any details about the seminars. I also limited the list to hand knitting.

So, I decided to create a new seminars list with some nifty features. It runs at the “annex” part of my site — that’s where I’ll be placing all lists of links. If you visit the new list, you’ll see it’s a fairly complete list. Plus, there’s a bonus: Pull down menus to help you find seminars in your part of the world.

Anyway, if you run a seminar, workshop or pretty much any knitting, crochet, weaving, spinning or fiber oriented event that is open to the public and has a specific date feel free to use the “add a knitting seminar form”. Your entry will appear fairly quickly.

What will happen at the url that had the old list? Well, since I know people set bookmars, the seminar URL will continue to show knitting seminars. It just won’t ever have all the nice search features the other pages has.

So, basically, you’ll still find the seminars you want to find plus, you’ll have a page with a nice searchable list of seminars. Yes. That’s “more”.

We all know there must a a knit meeting going on in our neighborhood, but where? The coffee shop? The book store? Loads of these exist, but they are hard to find.

People at “The Knitting Fiend Forum” wanted a category on meetings so I set one up. There are several people trying to start meetings, and several announcing new meetings. I also thought it would be nice to create a scannable list. So, I wrote a “link frenzy”¹ and posted at “The Knitting Fiend Annex”² to let knitters publicize where their meeting. The “link frenzy” lets you enter the name of the club, the location of the meeting, the city and state. You can add your meeting here: “Add A Knit Club”.

After you enter information and submit, and I review the listing, the link will show on my Knit Club Meeting page.

Ok, you visited and said “Sheesh, there are only 4 knitting meetings in 4 states on the list.” Yep. These are the meetings entered by members of “The Knitting Fiend Forum”. However, I hope to increase the number as I discover new meetings (or as other people enter their meetings.)

Meanwhile, at the Annex, you can also Find a yarn store and add your favorite yarn store to another list.

Eventually, I’ll be adding things like places where you can take lessons or create other tools that might be useful.

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1. I made up this word. It is sort of a free-for all links list, since you can add yourself. However, I do moderate to try to ensure the links are appropriate. I’m trying to organize so I eventually create a set of links that is useful for knitters.
2. The Knitting Fiend Annex runs on blog software, but it’s not really a blog. It’s just going to be lists of links to various things; I didn’t want to ping my readers 50 times in one day when I created the blog entries list of stores for each state!