Ooh, shiny! Well, yarny, anyway

So I'm randomly surfing Ravelry, as one does; and I actually pay attention to the banner ads, as one rarely does, because on Rav they actually have a chance of being relevant to my interests (or at least being pretty eye candy, because yarns); and the banner ad that happens to load for me one of the times links to a contest run by Cooperative Press, an indie publisher of knitting stuffs.

I click through, partly because I half recognize the name, and partly because the grand prize for the contest is rather enticing (I don't really *need* an iPad mini, but one that comes pre-loaded with a bunch of knitting books? yesplz); and the gist of the contest is "yay us! and word of mouth is lifeblood for indie presses so go tell folks!" and I go rooting around the shop to see why the name was familiar, and, oh, *oh*.

The primary reason I know Cooperative Press? They're the people that published Extreme Double Knitting, a book I have been lusting after for a while, because double knitting is a seriously awesome thing and because it has information on non-mirrored double knitting. I haven't acquired it yet because a) I am doing more crocheting than knitting at the moment, and b) monies (and the weird hangup I have about purchasing entertainmenty things), but it is seriously tempting.

But then I looked at their other stuff.

Ancient Egypt in Lace and Color?

I am in love.

Even with the fact that I have a gadzillion pretty shawls on my "to knit someday when I turn into an octopus with better mobility and can knit many things more easily" list ... but c'mon, *Egypt*.

(California Revival Knits isn't too shabby either. *pets the pretties*)

Anyway. I thought you all should know.

Not that knitting is relevant to *anyone* on my flist... ;D