Life is funny sometimes.  You see, there are lots of different ways to go about things.  Some people research, plan, make a business plan, get investors, and so on and so forth.

Then there is us.  We have a history of what I call slightly spontanious.  I mean it isn’t like we went from meeting to each other to a lifetime spent together in three weeks…er ok well maybe that was more than just a little spontanious.  Anyway, we have trouble with planning and all that stuff, we like to just DO stuff.  I think mostly this is a good thing, but it does stick a few humps in the road at times.

So Janurary marks an important time for Spindle and Wheel.  We are technically one year old.  How it was born, is I was trying to find some information on one thing or another.  Anyhow I was thinking, wouldn’t it be neat if all this information was all in one place, and neatly and well presented?  What if it was easy to find and had LOTS of pictures so you could really understand what was going on?  So I says to Beau,”Lets write a spinning magazine.” and he says in typical Beau fashion, “Ok” and so it went.

It took until May to organize all my previous blog posts and tutorials into the new location.  We also had the setup and all for the conent management.  We use Joomla to organize and manage our site, and EVERYONE should consider this, even for small sites because frankly it just makes putting and taking stuff up and down easy.  Anyway, so we published our first issue,  5 months after we got the notion to do it.  Now a year later we are trying to decide where we want to go, and do with what we have built.

Most of the contributions and active participants on the site are knitters, and so we have been contemplating adding more knitting stuff.  Not that we plan on going strictly to that, but really the bulk of people helping and reading are knitters, so we think we shall branch out a bit in that direction.

I also want to flesh out more of the tutorials, and add a few handfus more.  So part of these will be knitting tutorials, just the basics and some simple explainations.  Mostly becuase other sites have done it better than I ever could, but I think a basic run through of some techniques would be nice.  I would like to add some crochet ones as well.  So if you have any, want to write one, or have a blog post that could be used, please email me.  Of course any fiber arts tutorial would be welcome.

I only had nine posts in the last month and a half.  Like I said, BAD BLOGGER!  But there were 57 comments.  The winner of this month’s contest is:  comment number: 33

KSee 

that is such a pretty tam. Your roving colors are so pretty

Not that I picked it because it complimented my roving lol.  I just picked a few numbers, first 20, which was me, then 21 which was Beau, so then 33 and finally a winner.  LOL.

I have packaged up the prizes (I was still behind) and they shall be mailed quite soon.  I really am sorry winners, you just have to understand I am just now not throwing up everyday, all day…ugh.   Getting better, getting caught up.

So, if you guys could let me know, where would you like the magazine to go?  What would you do to make it better?