As issue 40 (August) is off to the printers this week. We’ve also just received the first copies of the July issue (almost as exciting as Kate the Editor returning from lunch with a tin of chocolates to share). It’s always gratifying to see all our hard work over the month result in actual tangible form, and I still haven’t got over the novelty of seeing the new look magazine in shops alongside all the others. We just hope you like the results! Let us know in the forum.

We’re all also pretty pleased that www.woollyworkshop.com have started stocking Knit Lite needles. I have received quite a few emails from people asking where to get these in the UK, so it’s great that they have finally come to these shores.

As this is my first blog, I think I should give a shout-out to the ladies of the Stitch ‘n’ Bitch group in Borders, Brighton, who will probably become a permanent fixture on these pages. Let’s hope they stay (relatively) well behaved! One of the girls is currently creating her own knitted Dalek, although despite requests she hasn’t been able to conjure up a knitted David Tennant. Another vital element to the blog (which will probably cause groans from the aforementioned SnB’ers) is my current WIP, a grey and black ‘Go-everywhere, go-with-everything cardigan’ from the Stitch and Bitch Knitter’s Handbook. It’s taken me several months but the end is finally in sight. I started it the same time as Steph Mann (one of our Needles at Dawn columnists) but she crashed at the first hurdle and passed it onto a relative to complete.