Coming to you live (more or less) from the fancy schmancy (or not) assembly line that is my screened in porch: Kit Packing Is Underway! Here’s a quick heads up on what to expect over the next few weeks.

TL;DR right up top, so you can skim and go on with your day: All is well! Kits should ship in the next couple of weeks. If you already ordered, you don’t need to do anything, you’ll get an email with tracking info when it’s on the way. Once I have a firmer shipping date, I’ll reach out to anyone who had me hold a spot for them so they can finish their orders. Once those folks have had a chance to claim their kits, I’ll open orders for the handful of remaining kits, first to folks on Patreon, then more publicly. When I know when that will happen, I’ll announce it so folks can plan! Once the kits are in the mail, the pattern will come out on its own for anyone who wants the pattern but not the kit.

Longer version for anyone wanting more info:

• If you already ordered the kit: You’ll get an email with tracking info when your kit ships. I don’t have a firm date yet (I’m waiting on one final component to arrive). I will know more next week, and I suspect (though again, this is not yet firm) that they’ll start shipping the week after that (I say ‘start’ because sometimes we have to split shipments up over two days so they fit in the mail truck), though it might be the week after (because I seriously, I don’t have complete control over any of this, and there are a lot of moving parts) .
• If you asked me to hold your spot: Once I know more about when these will be ready to ship, I’ll send an email to everyone who had me hold them a spot. That email will have instructions and a link to go ahead and actually order it (and an option to say ‘actually, something changed, I’m not going to order it’). I’ll make sure there are at least 72 hours after I send that email before I list the remaining kits more generally. This ‘hey, you can go order it now, you’ve got three days’ email will probably go out next week (though it’s possible it won’t be until the week after, because literally everyone is dealing with a whole damn lot right now).
• If you didn’t order/hold a kit, and now want one: There will be a handful of extra kits available (no seriously, a handful somewhere between 20 and 40, depending on how many of the folks who had me hold a kit for them end up actually getting one). I’ll put those up for sale once the folks who had me hold a spot have had a chance to say if they are getting kits. I’ll share that link in a post on Patreon (for anyone with any kind of membership, including the free one) for one day. Then if there are any left kits left, I’ll share it more publicly. When the ‘hey, if you preordered, you’ve got three days to go finalize that’ post goes up (likely some time next week, though possibly the week after), I will try my best to say exactly when the remaining kits will go up, so anyone who wants to plan ahead will be able to.
• If you just want the pattern, not the kit: Never fear! The pattern will be available on its own in all the usual places and ways. It will likely come out a few days after the kits go in the mail. That’s likely the third full week in May, possibly the fourth, though again, none of this is yet firm (because we are all navigating massive disruptions to complicated systems and no one knows all the details of how anything is going to shake out when we are trying to move boxes full of lots of things around on trucks).

Does trying to explain any of this always feel like a balancing act between the people who feel like ‘only tell me the bits that apply directly to me, and keep it snappy’ and the people who feel like ‘I will not know a moment’s peace until I know every version of every possible permutation, I need all the details?’ God yes. Am I sometimes both of those people, often at the same damn time? Also yes. Is there one set of text that does that perfectly for every single brain? I mean I hold out hope, but lengthy experience suggests no. So hopefully this finds the balance. But if you still have questions, let me know and I’ll do my best!