Creditors of Craft Magazines Limited

Your help is needed!
If you are a creditor of Craft Magazines Limited you should have been advised that the company had applied to be struck off. You’re a creditor if you’re owed money or goods - so if you have an unfulfilled magazine subscription or you’re an unpaid designer, then you’re a creditor.
Any of us can object to this company being struck off. They have made no attempt to settle their debts, and their accounts have not been (and will not be) audited by an independent third party if they’re struck off. Creditors therefore have no way of knowing if there is any money to pay them.
To object, you can phone 0303 1234 500 or email enquiries@companies-house.gov.uk. Quote Craft Magazines Limited, Company Number 08051158.
You can object for any or all of the following reasons:

1. The company has an unsatisfied CCJ, and therefore legal action still pending against it.
2. You understand that not all creditors have been advised of the striking off nor were advised that the company has ceased trading.
3. They have disposed of rights that, immediately before ceasing to be in business or trade, they held for disposal or gain in the normal course of that business or trade. (They have to have ceased trading for at least three months prior to the application to be struck off. Simply Beautiful was held as an asset or gain during the normal course of their business. They’ve disposed of it less than three months ago - about 6-8 weeks ago I think - by giving it to a creditor in lieu of payment).

I’m hoping HMRC may object as I’m presuming that once again PAYE, NIC and VAT wasn’t paid.

Craft Magazine Shop's Simply Sewing Magazine Available to Download Free

If you are a paid subscriber to Simply Sewing, click here to find out how to contact Essex Trading Standards to complain that the magazine you paid for is available free for download after you were told it on 11 October 2012, subscription copies were delayed due to a change in print vendors.

Email, call, send letters to demand the money you paid for your subscription be returned by Craft Magazine Shop.

It is outrageous that a company, any company, can take money from people for a product and then provide that product free on the Internet.

Simply....

Simply

Simply Sewing where are you?

Apparently a change of printers and change of schedule as of 11 October has caused a 10-day delay in the printing and mailing of Simply Sewing.

Again, if you have a subscription, I suggest you to contact your payment provider for a refund.

Now for something completely different....

Speaking of simply, I've been simply cooking like a domestic goddess:

Pork loin chops dry rubbed and baked with sliced apples and sweet potato

Apples and pears baked with a cinnamon and nutmeg sauce w/a little red pepper to really spice things up.

Steamed broccoli

Stringbeans with mushrooms

Gingerbread cookies

In addition, I am 80% through switching my summer and winter clothes

And I'm 22 rows away from finishing the Husk cowl.

Totally Tubular

Yes, it has been weeks; and I do apologize. Work, life, and my commitment to knit 1 hour a night results in some things getting put to the back burner.

I Can't Write It Better
Update on Crafts Magazine Shop, Simply Sewing, Modern Quilting, Kerrie Allman, Tallulah Ray (if you're wondering click on the link). To reiterate: As of today, Simply Sewing is two weeks late showing up on the shelves. If you are a subscriber, I urge you to contact the magazine to find out the status of your subscription. If you recently subscribed, get in touch with your bank, credit card company or PayPal and find out about getting a refund. Experience suggests that when magazines from any interation of this company are late, their demise, leaving behind unfufilled subscribers, generally follows closely behind.

Totally Tubular
After a fortnight of deadlines, deadlines, deadlines at work I need something relaxing AND I needed to find a project that would use up the 14 skeins of Knit Picks Swish in my stash. I had originally earmarked this yarn for a sweater, but after reading reviews on Ravelry about projects knit with this yarn growing, fuzzing, losing stitch definition, etc., I decided to do something that didn't matter rather than put a lot of effort into a sweater only to have it be potentially useless in the end.

Found a bedjacket pattern on Ravelry. Since the bedjacket has ribbed cuffs, decided to try the tubular cast on. Found a great video on You Tube done by Eunny Jang and in under an 30 minutes was bashing away in K1P1.

I know this about myself as knitter and I need to keep reminding myself, I don't like knitting with soft squishy yarns.  Crunch and scratch are more my cup of tea. Yes it means I need to keep a stock of hand and cuticle creams nearby to remoisten every hour but I'd rather do that than work with a yarn the slips, slides, splits and does a St. Vitus dance all over my needles. Moving to the bamboo needles seems to have settled the yarn down a bit. But the first five inches was a nightmare after weeks of knitting with non-superwash, sticky yarns.

Color Affection Addiction or 6K Plus Ravelers Can't Be Wrong
Okay, so I was resistant. I don't like stripes. Since knitting down the stash is the order of the day, I pulled out the bag of Knit Picks Palette I'd socked away in the spring for the Miami Vice Shawl, ponied up for the pattern, and cast on. Thrilling, challenging knitting it isn't...more let me master the theory of relativity while knitting, but OH the results. Part of it is in the shaping, the other part is simple is just sometimes better. As for the stripes, I am knitting my Color Affection color block in pinks and fushias.

A Bit Scary but Exciting
Not really scary, just one of those moments that prompts a reevaluation of my self-perception. Saw an advertisement for a play the piqued my interest. Clicked on the link, read the reviews and then clicked on the link to the ticket site. Was about to exit after looking at the matinee ticket prices when a pricing option suddenly registered: 60 and over. Well hells bells, I'm over 60 now and totally eligible for reduced ticket prices.

 

Derek Barnes Revealed

It has been revealed that  Jenna Smith-Clarke, Jenn Smith Clark, Jenn Smith-Clark (the name has been spelled various ways) is a cousin of Kerrie Allman: Nikki Bladon.
And Derek Barnes? He is a relative: but deceased!

Craft Magazine Now A Limited Company

Handmade Living Magazine Ltd has now changed its name at Companies House as of 23 July 2012 and is now called:
Craft Magazines Ltd
Details here:
http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/945a1dda63dea9e9b5bed92...
Richard Rycroft (Kerrie’s Father) appears to be the owner and sole Director.

IF YOU GET A TIME OUT MESSAGE ON THIS LINK, just go to Companies House (www.Companieshouse.gov.uk) and click on the Section Find out about a Company, enter the name Craft Magazines Ltd in the box.

Craft Magazine Shop UK - Beware

Modern Quilting
Simply Sewing
Handmade Fashion
Simply Beautiful

The above titles were sold to Derek Barnes of Craft Magazine Shop. Simply Sewing is the new title of the former magazine Sew Hip published by All Craft Media (ACM). For more information, click.