'Funk & Weber Designs' Category
Zweigart Gets On Board the Puzzle Pattern Contest
I think you’ll agree that when Jim and Kristi at The Gentle Art offered to contribute fibers to the Puzzle Pattern Contest prize, the game got a bit more interesting. Forty-four skeins of Gentle Art fiber ups the value of the prize package significantly.
Well what would you say to getting the Cashel Linen from Zweigart […]Orphan Works
Do you like the random, generally unrelated images I post on this blog?
Well, get this: Under proposed Orphan Works legislation, I would have to register each and every image I posted with a privately-owned database in order to protect my (and by “my” I usually mean “Mike’s”) copyright. No doubt, I would have […]
The New Puzzle Pattern–MIA
I uploaded the new puzzle pattern to the printer’s Web site before I headed out to Aialik Bay. They were to send the proof to Seward so that I could (I hoped) approve it and get the printing going while I was away. I imagined picking up the very heavy box at the PO on […]
Pattern Layouts
I have now completed three different layouts for the new puzzle pattern. The real choice is between #2 and #3, and I’m going with #2. I’m letting it “rest” today and will look it over one last time tonight then send it off to the printer along with Antarctic Night which needs to be reprinted. […]
I Oppose Current Orphan Works Legislation
Artists need deadlines, I guess. We’re coming down to the wire on Orphan Works legislation in Washington, and artists are finally organizing to oppose it. I applaud those far-sighted folks who saw this coming and followed it carefully. I preferred to ignore it while I could, let those with more political inclination take care of […]
The Needlework Nutshell Has Moved
For more than a year I’ve watched, worried, and whined about subscribers to The Needlework Nutshell not getting the newsletter. Even I wasn’t getting it at one of my testing addresses. I talked to the newsletter host, and they seemed to want to help, but they couldn’t or didn’t. Subscribers still weren’t getting the newsletter, […]
Funk & Weber Designs New Puzzle Pattern Update
I’m awaiting final bookmark counts from three shops and more pictures from Nordic Needle.
In the meantime, I have some exciting news to report: I’ve finished stitching the New Puzzle Pattern.
Those are three separate links to previous posts about this pattern, and I didn’t even get back to the earliest ones. This pattern has been in […]The Needlework Show is Closed
The Needlework Show is now closed. My email box is filled with receipts and messages and contest entries. I’m filling orders.
I just sent out notices to puzzle contest winners, so check your Inbox. I’ll announce the names here and on the Funk & Weber Designs Web site as soon as I get permission from the […]New Puzzle Pattern
I shifted gears over the weekend. I cleaned up the piles of puzzle books, old puzzles, dictionaries, natural history and sports trivia books. I filed the 2007 receipts and records in the deep dark cubby behind the couch in the loft. I dusted and vacuumed. I sneezed and took Sudafed.
And I stitched. And stitched. And […]New Patterns Posted
I spent many hours today updating the Funk & Weber Designs Web site. Thanks to the Needlework Nutshell newsletter, I do quick monthly updates of the home page, if nothing else, but it’s been several months since I updated more thoroughly. Notice I said “more thoroughly” and not “thoroughly.” Ahem.
I like updating the Web site: […]
