Just to see whether its really no traffic or my connection is broken, I'm posting a few paragraphs I found while searching my diary for last spring's dental appointment:
25 April 2012Threads Magazine came today. I was about to add it to the five other copies of Threads in my To Be Read pile, then realized that it was a good hour before I needed to start supper and decided to sit down and read the whole thing right away.
So I read the letters to the editor, then got up to find a bookmark to put on page thirteen to remind me that I wanted to read the online article on how to use pins the right way, then went to the computer to read it right now. So I typed in ThreadsMagazine.com, up popped the home page, clicked a button marked "blog" which didn't bring me to Threads Daily blog, typed "Threads Daily blog" into the search box, got a bunch of articles about the blog (all of them almost content free), finally found the blog proper — no clue as to how to find the entry about pins. Looked back at magazine, typed Susan Khalje into the search box, got a list of everything Khalje ever wrote that didn't include How to Use Pins the Right Way, retyped the name plus the word "pins" and finally got a list that included what the magazine implied that I could just go to the web site and click on.
Whereupon she spent three full screens saying "dump bent pins". When she finally got around to actually using the pins, it was only seven more screens, half of them pictures. This was a proper how-to, but she covered only pinning for hand sewing, didn't mention that machine sewing wasn't included, and baldly asserted that this one method would do for every occasion. No, I am not going to sign up for Threads Online. And I don't think I would bother even if it were free or I could pay just by shoving money into the monitor.
So now I'm writing Banner and the magazine will go onto the pile.
[Because I'd used up all my reading time.]