It seems like every spare minute of the past few weeks has been spent on the New Shop. The New Shop will be harder, faster, better, stronger… okay, maybe not harder. (Ideally, it will be easier, and I will stop pointlessly referencing Daft Punk.) The New Shop has a proper shopping cart, a really nice back-end management section, and lots of features that I can grow into. Right now, its sole concern is my knitted doll clothing, but I dream of one day being able to offer knitting patterns for the discerning woman (perhaps also the discerning man, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves).

Unfortunately, despite working through the past two weekends and thinking it was done, I have hit a small snagette. It seems that some scripts do not play nicely with others (Lightbox and jQuery, I am looking at you) and it’s going to take a few more hours of puzzling before everything is running smoothly.

I have an eighteen-item-high (see below) stack of knits to finish and photograph, too, which seems to have been breeding over the past few months. I don’t know how this happens; I thought I had maybe five jumpers to add to the shop, but no.

It’s strange how tiring it is to sit at the computer and code for hours. I think I need another weekend, please. In my absence of mind I managed to enlarge the beret I was knitting by several inches, so now it’s ideal for a giant, but not so much for me. I will be ripping back when I am more awake. It’s going to be lush, though: cream merino and the Crumpet beret pattern from here. Perfect for winter – and isn’t the name excellent?