Ohmygoodknits! Did you hear?! Loom Knitters Circle magazine is going to shut down again. That makes me sad. The next issue will come but after December it will go away again. Be sure to show your support and buy downloads of back & current issue of this fantastic online magazine! Maybe we can rally the troops a bit! http://www.loomknitterscircle.com/
Announced on their Facebook group today: October 18, 2012
“Dear readers,
We regret to inform you that LKC will be closing after the Winter 2012 issue. We had hoped that it would take off and that more submissions would be received. However, we have had the same few people submit every quarter. There are very few designers out there and unfortunately the magazine cannot sustain itself. The designers, columnists and the staff work almost free for each issue.
We had hoped that the sales of the magazine issues would help to pay fees and eventually increase the compensation to the designers, however, sales have not increased.
The next issue will be released at the end of this October. The last issue will be at the end of January.
Thank you for your support during our second try at the magazine” – Isela Phelps
Do you think you could help and pass the word?
I’d love to help hostthe site for back issues to remain avalable but not sure how.
I’d love to rally everyone and see what can be done but I know it needs a consistent audience to keep running an actual magazine. Let me know if you’d be interested in the issues still being available somehow. I’ve offered my help but we shall see.
Comment with your thoughts!
Happy Looming!!
Kristen
Tessa
Sunday 15th of April 2018
How can I get a copy of the past issues of the Loom Knitters Magazine?
Tessa
Sunday 15th of April 2018
How can I get a copy of the past issues of the Loom Knitters Magazine?
Brenda GA, Dome-Dweller
Friday 9th of November 2012
This is sad! However, I think more loom knitters might have contributed if a more aggressive submission campaign had been used. I do understand that the LKC Submission Guidelines & Schedules are in the e-zine, but people get caught up in life and forget which is why I rarely submitted anything. Also, I'm not sure if I've ever seen a call for pattern submissions in any of the Yahoo loom knitting groups. They may have used FB to make such announcements, but I (along with many others) are not on FB.
One thing I do know from the personal experience of finding teachers for Yahoo's LoomClass is that people don't beat the door down to teach those classes - most won't even respond to announcements, so we either contact designers and express our interest or end up teaching many of the classes ourselves.
Another thing I've noticed is that there is a constant turnover in loom knitters so you really have to work to reach as many as possible. This means scouting the Internet, hitting the knitting groups, posting announcements and contacting people in order to reach as many as possible.
Brenda GA, Dome-Dweller
Friday 9th of November 2012
This is sad! However, I think more loom knitters might have contributed if a more aggressive submission campaign had been used. I do understand that the LKC Submission Guidelines & Schedules are in the e-zine, but people get caught up in life and forget which is why I rarely submitted anything. Also, I'm not sure if I've ever seen a call for pattern submissions in any of the Yahoo loom knitting groups. They may have used FB to make such announcements, but I (along with many others) are not on FB.
One thing I do know from the personal experience of finding teachers for Yahoo's LoomClass is that people don't beat the door down to teach those classes - most won't even respond to announcements, so we either contact designers and express our interest or end up teaching many of the classes ourselves.
Another thing I've noticed is that there is a constant turnover in loom knitters so you really have to work to reach as many as possible. This means scouting the Internet, hitting the knitting groups, posting announcements and contacting people in order to reach as many as possible.
jpirkle
Monday 22nd of October 2012
Even though I have printed out most of the patterns, or ones I was interested in, I think it is a wealth of great patterns and the tutorials and stitch help is wonderful. I am not a designer or pattern writer. I tried once and it failed at the test knitters level. They never tried it even. I found it horrible trying to put the pattern into words and how to present it. I am not that good on the computer to set up things like that. Brenda Myers in Georgia is great at condensing it to minimal pages. I haven't done any of the recent ones since I am overwhelmed with to many projects going at the present. I have no idea how to store or set up a page either to house information. I guess it takes a great computer savvy mind and some resources here to save these. I would contribute if that would help someone store these patterns.Jeannette