We have a very short while before the summer issue is live! In the meantime, the preview is up and online for you to peruse. Hopefully, this is just what you need on a Friday 
Well, it’s been a great run of it and I very much enjoyed putting Popknits together for you each season, but I’m going to have to cease publishing in 2010 for budgetary reasons. The magazine is running at a loss and without advertising or donations, I can no longer continue to pay honorariums to designers out of my own pocket. I had sincerely hoped when I started this magazine that there would be some kind souls who would donate or choose to advertise with us for every issue. While I did get a few interested parties in the beginning, that is no longer the case. The economy has been tough on everyone, myself included. I can no longer foresee keeping the magazine alive if I’m the only one paying for it. I expect that I may have been able to generate more revenue for Popknits by putting together media kits and actively engaging companies for their support, but I am now pregnant with my second child and time is not on my side!
So, with all of that, I have decided to put Popknits on hold for 2010. It is possible that I may be able to publish again in the Fall of 2011, but I won’t be able to make that decision until Spring of next year. In the meantime, the site will stay live and I will still be here for questions if you have them. Thank you to all the kind readers who have contacted me and shown their support for Popknits from the beginning. It really means a lot to know that you want us to stick around. Hopefully, Popknits will be back.
Take care and happy knitting!
Stephanie.
View Issue #05: Fall/Winter 2009 Now!
There’s still time to advertise with Popknits! Now that you see what the issue has to offer, check out our extremely affordable advertising rates and contact us to get your ad on the site as soon as possible! Since Popknits’ launch in the fall of 2008, there have been almost 750,000 page views on the site and close to 225,000 unique users! That’s a very significant audience that could be seeing your ads for a very small investment. If you contact us before September 30th, you’ll get 15% off your ad! Do it now before it’s too late!
]]>If you’d like to advertise with Popknits, there’s no better time to do that than now. Since Popknits’ launch in the fall of 2008, there have been almost 750,000 page views on the site and close to 225,000 unique users! That’s a very significant audience that could be seeing your ads for a very small investment. I have dropped Popknits’ ad rates to be more small-business friendly, so won’t you please take a look at what we have to offer? Advertising slots will stay open until September 15, 2009.
]]>Well, I have spent a great deal of time mulling over all possibilities for the continuation of Popknits during this economic downturn. The site is fully-funded by what I make off of advertising revenue and freelance projects that I take on outside of Popknits to pay for designers’ honorariums. As you have probably noticed, there has not been much interest in advertising with Popknits in the first year. I expected as much since our catalog is so small, but it’s time that I scale back the magazine to make things easier on myself and still keep it up and running.
Starting with the upcoming issue, Popknits will be published annually resulting in a Fall/Winter edition and a Spring/Summer edition. All the patterns that I have lined up to publish for the fall with be published in the Fall/Winter issue. This means that instead of soliciting patterns for the Winter issue, I will skip it all together. My apologies to anyone who was already designing something that they hoped to submit for the Winter issue! Please know that you can still submit it for the S/S 2010 issue since Popknits is season-agnostic.
In the meantime, please think of Popknits when you think of advertising online! I would hate to shut down the publishing schedule entirely but my gut tells me that if advertising revenue does not come in for the next two issues, I will have to do so. Thankfully, hosting the site is a minimal expense that I can handle for a long time and published patterns here will never just disappear. Let’s just keep positive and hope to keep Popknits running for quite some time.
Thank You!
]]>We have a very short while before the summer issue is live! In the meantime, the preview is up and online for you to peruse. Hopefully, this is just what you need on a Friday
Apologies are necessary as it seems that the Day’s Eye Hat chart had an error in it. If you are knitting the hat or thinking about knitting, please download the new chart. Thank you!
]]>Design and article submissions for the summer issue will be closed by midnight EDT on April 1. I’ve already had a few submissions come through the door, and I can’t wait to see what else you all have for me.
See Popknits’ Submission Guidelines
I’ve decided to change the rates for article and pattern pages to make advertising in those sections more small-business friendly. Spring and summer rates will be less expensive, seeing as those are the down times for knitting in the Northern Hemisphere, but even the fall and winter rates are affordable at $80/slot.
Summer Issue Sale! Buy a slot on the Individual Pattern or Article page for both the Summer and Fall issues for only $100 total. That’s a $30 discount! Contact us now to secure your slot.
]]>Also, a very kind reader brought to my attention that the extra images on Flickr were not public! I have changed them so that you can all view them now and I have also updated the Day’s Eye Hat PDF chart link which was not working.
Sorry for the inconvenience everyone! Hopefully the rest of this issue will go smoothly.
ETA: The Greta Hat chart has been added to the pattern as well.
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Slots are still open for the Spring Issue, but will be closed on March 11, 2009. Get in now and save 25% off our regular price for this issue!
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Submissions are now open for Issue #04: Summer 2009! For our summer issue, we’re looking for men’s patterns and baby items, since these are the type most lacking on Popknits currently, but any pattern will be considered. If you have a pattern you think would be great for Popknits, please send it on. Also, feel free to submit patterns regardless of their seasonality. As temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere and knitting with wool becomes unbearable, don’t forget that winter is in full swing to those in the Southern Hemisphere. Popknits is season-agnostic! To find out more, check our submissions guidelines and download our submissions pack before getting your files together.
Submissions for Summer 2009 close on April 1, 2009.
Popknits Submissions Guidelines
Slots are now open for the Spring Issue especially on the patterns pages. This is a great slot for getting views on your advertisement. Our most popular patterns get thousands of page views. Just imagine your ad on those pages! Traffic to Popknits during the Winter Issue was extremely good. The site was host to more than 60,000 unique visitors with more than 175,000 page views! That’s 25% more visitors than our Fall premiere issue. I expect to see even more knitters visit the site for the Spring Issue.
If you’re an LYS owner or etsy seller, now is the perfect time to advertise with us. Many of our patterns use yarns that you carry! To be sure, I have posted a list of yarns that are featured in the Spring issue. If you sell these yarns or similar ones that can be substituted, consider placing an ad with us.
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