Our Beloved Dog, Raven (1998-2008)

This month has been a busy one, full of looming deadlines and caring for our beloved dog, Raven, who has been ill for the past two weeks. Here is a photo of her laying beside me in my office a few years ago.

I’m halfway through the deadlines, for which I’m grateful. But I’m also happy to have work to keep me busy just now, to help keep my mind off Raven who, sadly, crossed the Rainbow Bridge today.

We will miss her dreadfully. She was with us for ten years which doesn’t seem nearly long enough. (Is it ever?) She brought us untold joy and lavish amounts of love. We’re thankful to have had her in our lives all these years.

Web Site is Back Up!

To my complete wonder and utter amazement, I successfully migrated my Web site a few minutes ago. It is now safely housed at its new host site. Yes, it really is slightly after 5:00 am and no, I haven't been to bed yet...but I'm on my way!

Yippee! I can now upload the site easily and can update it when needed. The "Happy Spring" greeting that was on the old site was starting to grate on my nerves, but then I haven't been able to get FTP access to the old site since sometime in late May. Can you tell I was dreading the move? Otherwise, I'd have moved it much sooner.

The site is a little messy because I decided to throw together a completely new one at the last minute, which was probably the last thing I should have done on short notice. But, it (mostly) works, and that's the main thing. The free patterns page is still under construction but I have all the files and will be working on that later today!

My Web Site is Down

My former Web host is working more quickly than I had anticipated. My Web site is now offline temporarily. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s back up!

Web Site Changes

All good things must come to an end (or so I’m told). I’ve had a lot of trouble uploading new content to my Web site at www.BrendaStratton.com over the last year since I changed Internet Service Providers. Now, things have deteriorated to the point that I’m going to move the site to a new host. I hope to accomplish this over the next week or so.

Since I’ve never moved an existing site before, I’m not quite sure what difficulties I may encounter. So, if you stop by my site in the near future and notice that things are wonky, bear with me and try back later. The address will remain the same, so you will still be able to find my site in the same place you always have once I get any bugs worked out.

After the domain transfer, my free patterns will return. I have several of the older ones ready to upload. The trick is getting the site moved to a host that will actually let me upload them.

Thanks for your patience!

A New Design Has Just Been Published

I’m happy to announce that my first project since returning to crochet design earlier this year has just been published. You’ll find it in the Coats & Clark booklet, Crochet Made Easy. The design I produced for this booklet is First Baby Blanket on pages 30-31. It is also shown on the back cover. It is a very simple design but that was the whole point since the book is focused on teaching people how to crochet.

This is only the first of several designs that I have placed over the past few months. Since some are still in the publication process and others are still on my hook, I’ll announce each as they become available.