Everyone has lost. Designers, subscribers, writers, club members, advertisers, printers, contractors and employees... in short, anyone and everyone ACM touched has lost.
Some losses can be calculated in dollars, pounds, and euros. How does one price disillusion and disappointment or the hours spent making an idea into a creation,
Crocheters have lost the only UK-based print crochet publication. Knitters have lost a magazine which once showed amazing promise and introduced us to innovative designers featuring designs in a range of sizes; and, unlike other British craft magazines, regularly using models of colour to model those designs. Quilters and sewers have lost magazines featuring their craft.
Businesses aren't often successful; and failure, however, unpleasant is acceptable. What is unacceptable is the unwillingness to recognize or the total disregard for the community a business creates. The failure to recognize and respect the symbiotic interrelationship between customer and product, supplier and product and employee and the business owners is unforgiveable.
ACM is in Administration and it is still early days and much is still to be learned about what the final disposition will be of the titles ACM once published as well as what compensation, if any, can be given to thosse unpaid or unfulfilled. But what survives in the crafting community IS COMMUNITY.
Generous offers have come forth from suppliers, designers, dyers to make lace club and sock club members whole. Knitters and crocheters have offered postage support. Other publishers have reached out to unpaid and unpublished designers. We are even looking at ways to help employees who've lost their jobs.
If you need information or assistance, reach out to the communities in the list below:
The Sewing Directory
SewHappyGeek
Friends of the Group Once Known as... (you'll have to joined Ravelry to access information; but I will also publish the Administrator contact details as soon as we have them.)
Some losses can be calculated in dollars, pounds, and euros. How does one price disillusion and disappointment or the hours spent making an idea into a creation,
Crocheters have lost the only UK-based print crochet publication. Knitters have lost a magazine which once showed amazing promise and introduced us to innovative designers featuring designs in a range of sizes; and, unlike other British craft magazines, regularly using models of colour to model those designs. Quilters and sewers have lost magazines featuring their craft.
Businesses aren't often successful; and failure, however, unpleasant is acceptable. What is unacceptable is the unwillingness to recognize or the total disregard for the community a business creates. The failure to recognize and respect the symbiotic interrelationship between customer and product, supplier and product and employee and the business owners is unforgiveable.
ACM is in Administration and it is still early days and much is still to be learned about what the final disposition will be of the titles ACM once published as well as what compensation, if any, can be given to thosse unpaid or unfulfilled. But what survives in the crafting community IS COMMUNITY.
Generous offers have come forth from suppliers, designers, dyers to make lace club and sock club members whole. Knitters and crocheters have offered postage support. Other publishers have reached out to unpaid and unpublished designers. We are even looking at ways to help employees who've lost their jobs.
If you need information or assistance, reach out to the communities in the list below:
The Sewing Directory
SewHappyGeek
Friends of the Group Once Known as... (you'll have to joined Ravelry to access information; but I will also publish the Administrator contact details as soon as we have them.)
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