black friday/cyber monday

MBGdesigns is having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale! I've been working on putting this sale together for a couple of weeks now, and I even worked it out so that my sale is being promoted on the papernstitch blog. November 26-29, customers can enjoy free shipping on all orders and reduced prices on select items. AND, facebook fans and papernstitch readers are being treated to even deeper discounts! Head on over to papernstitch or become a facebook fan here to get the details/coupon codes. Happy shopping!

exciting things are happening...

I'm starting to get excited about all of the attention my store has been grabbing recently. When I was in college, I didn't spend much time on it other than knitting whenever I could, and I was just grateful for the extra money here and there. Now that I'm working (and my work doesn't follow me home like a pile of art projects and textbooks), I have more time to put into networking and promoting my store. The best part? It's paying off. November has been a great month, and my hopes are high for December and the early months of the new year. I'm even keeping my fingers crossed for summer sales volume...

MBGdesigns has become extremely popular in treasuries recently, and I was featured in my first Etsy Finds email today. I took some screenshots to illustrate, of course. ;)

supakitch & koralie

This video makes me miss art school, which is a feeling I didn't think I'd experience this soon after graduating. And now I really want to paint by numbers on my walls...

old listings ... revised

I've been meaning to update a couple of listings in the store with new photographs for awhile now, and I finally got around to it this morning. The brick wall in some of the photos I added to the shop in September was really driving me crazy. Turns out, orange-toned bricks are not a flattering backdrop for me. Ha, who knew? Anyway, some of the new photos for my Cowl of Many Colors No. 3 and Fingerless Mittens in Oatmeal are below. On a side note, I'm growing my hair out! It's driving me crazy, but I'm trying to hang in there...

preview!

Finally got around to photographing a few new items that will be popping up in the store over the weekend ...

treasury

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mbg on facebook

I finally took the plunge and made a facebook page for MBGdesigns over the weekend. I found that my personal page was becoming too bogged down with store updates and links to treasuries, so I wanted a separate place to post those things. It has a good handful of fans so far, and I'm happy to know that I'm only bugging people with updates because they want them, not just because they're my fb friends. Feel free to visit and "like" the MBG facebook page here.

pie chart money!

Ha, this is a strange post for me, but anyway ... found these brilliant coin designs by Mac Funamizu and I thought they were just way too cool not to share. I would love to see these come to life one day. Check them out:

neutral love

Just a quick post about my latest treasury ...

machine assisted knits!

I've been kind of keeping it under wraps until I had time to figure out how to use it, but now I'm ready to talk about the knitting machine(!) that I got for my birthday. It's a fairly simple one, but it's capable of making really large items (even blankets!) and creating all kinds of beautiful, complicated stitches. For now, I am mostly interested in making the same kinds of simple items I already love to knit by hand, but with much greater speed. I absolutely love, love, love the machine, and I just posted the first two machine-assisted knit items in my store today.


These Long and Lean Scarves are super long, versatile, and unisex. I asked Banks to help out with the modeling again this time, because he has been getting such a great response from the women on Etsy, and I wanted to make sure these items were pictured on a man and a woman. I'm beyond happy with the pictures, and I'm thrilled at the small amount of time it took to create these beauties. Check them out!

feelin' the love

Over the last two days, I have been included in 17 Etsy treasuries. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude, and I am posting a few of my favorites below. Believe me, it was hard to choose such a small handful! Please see these and other similar treasuries here.

treasury and the front page

I just made this beautiful new treasury today. Please visit and comment!


I was so excited to see that I made the front page of Etsy today! I was included in this beautiful treasury that was (not surprisingly) selected for the front page this afternoon, and the scarf featured has already sold. Yay!