We are meeting with our IT guy on Wednesday to revamp our website.  This weekend I am trying to figure out what kind of organization we will have.  Robin is figuring out the artistic aspects.  That old black background is getting kind of Goth.

We had a request for all the colorways of the Hand Spun Bouquet.  There will be a section for all the U-Knitted Nations yarns on the revamp.  In the meantime, I will post them to the blog as soon as I can get access to the website (where we store the photos).

Crazy weekend.  Sorry for the mix up.

Please bear with us this weekend.  There were so many hits that you crashed our website.  And that's a good thing.

When we first started Pagewood Farm, it was a website for Robin selling her stuff on E-Bay.  Then, we started wholesaling to retailers.  We were a small Indy, so we didn't need much of a website.  We saved money by taking a lower traffic package. 

We had growing pains and had to go to the medium package.  And that has served us fairly well as we continued to grow.

Until this weekend.  You great folks have been hitting our site at a rate of between 400-600 hits per day!  We love it. 

But, you exceeded our hits-per-month limit.  So, we switched to unlimited traffic.  It should be in effect by Monday or Tuesday.

Thank you.

Chuck & Robin

I was always told not to disparage, minimize or criticize things I did,  One reason for that was that it would turn people off.  After all, who wants to see, hear, taste, touch, or smell something that I have just said wasn't that great.  The other reason (the alternative) was because it would  seem like I was fishing for compliments (example: These pants make my butt look big!  Noooo! You look great!)

Forgetting my earlier teachings, I will start by apologizing for these photos (Nooo! They're great!!)  I wanted to get them posted and will try to get better photos posted this weekend.

We continue to have a slight language barrier.  But, we're getting the hang of it.  Robin found some new colors.

This one we named Slate.  We think it will be stunning when knit up with the solid color forming a canvas for the artistic flowers.  The flash kind of "faded" the colors.  It is a deeper slate.  The flowers are a richer rose and amber.

If Robin had asked me if she should order Hand Spun Bouquet where the flowers are on a solid Moss colored yarn I would have said no.  But she didn't ask and it looks really pretty.  Once again the flash has washed out the colors a little bit.  I'll set up my table top studio with the little klieg lights and get some nicer photos.

Bad news:  We didn't have the right item number for the Brown & Tan reorder.  Great news: This is what came instead!  I named it Autumn Leaves because it has all of the colors that draw people to New England every fall.  It is by far the prettiest of the Hand Spun Bouquet not based on a solid color core yarn.

One more little thing.  At the bottom of my blogs I try to put in a little "blurb" about Twittering with Pagewood Farm (www.pagewoodfarm.com).  Why should you?  Because of the time lag between the birth of a new product and getting my IT guy to post it on the web, I always preview new products and new colors on this blog.  If you are seeing this post any day later than Thursday and want to order any of the products displayed, you lost valuable time.  Why Twitter?  I tweeted that this blog was here right after I posted it.  Give it a try.

 But once it stretched out over the cargo, it seemed more strappy than webby and I didn't want to have to face a bunch of angry knitters trying to explain how I lost a load of this precious cargo.  So, I headed down Sepulveda/Pacific Hwy and took the scenic (and slower) route trhough El Segundo, Manhatten Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and Harbor City.  I have no idea what people must have thought.  It took over an hour to get home and it was dark as I backed into the driveway.

We got some new colors!!!!  I will photograph them and post them ASAP.

 
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We just got a call from our customs broker advising us that our shipment of Hand Spun Bouquet should be clearing customs tomorrow.  For those of you who haven't been following this, we are starting to import high quality hand crafted yarns that we feel are good enough to carry the Pagewood Farm name.  It's got to be unique, creative, and of a hand crafted quality that is high enough that we would be proud to claim it as our work if we had created it.

We think this qualifies:

Anyway, this new shipment should have some new colors!!!  I'll get them posted ASAP.

In other news, I saw that we actually have a project in the new Pagewood Farm (www.pagewoodfarm.com) U-Knitted Nations Hand Spun Bouquet.  But, how good is it really?

We got this e-mail from a customer yesterday.  I won't print her name.  She bought her Hand Spun Bouquet at Needlecraft Cottage in Pacific Beach (San Diego).  She wanted to know about our other colors:

     " I purchased your new Handspun Bouquet yarn in black with pink flowers. I brought it home and couldn't resist rolling it into a ball ... then knitting just a few rows to see how it looked. Couldn't stop myself ... my scarf was done in less than two hours. It was the most fun I've ever had knitting!