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Nine Ten Publications
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Publisher of books by Canadians about how to make things and how things are made. 🇨🇦🧶🧷🧵✂️📐🪡🎨🔨
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And what a year it was. Thank you for weathering the challenges of 2025 with us, and for celebrating the joys. Here's to a fabulous New Year!
A faux envelope or folder with sheets coming out the top. The front one is labeled, "Year in Review --> 2025" and features the Nine Ten Publications logo, and an image with illustrated books and craft notions that says, "Bookish and Crafty." Year in Review / Nine Ten What We Made Together: * 1 crowdfunded book release (Quilting, by Andrea Tsang Jackson) * 3 books financed solely through pre-orders (thank you for making them possible!) * 1 successful Kickstarter (for A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, coming June 2026) Book covers of: Quilting, The Magic of Pockets, and A User's Guide to Yarn. Year in Review / Nine Ten Wins We're Celebrating: * 4 books released and, astonishingly, delivered amid one kind of shipping chaos or another * Secured full sales and distribution for our books in Canada * Secured full sales and distribution for our books outside of Canada * 2 The Globe and Mail bestsellers (The True Cost of Wool, by Anna Hunter; and Math for Knitters, by Kate Atherley). Book covers of The True Cost of Wool, and Math for Knitters. Year in Review / Nine Ten Looking Ahead: *More community connection for inspiration, feedback and fun * Smoother opertaions now that our books are available wherever books are sold * 3 (maybe more) books coming in 2026 * More experiments with zines and booklets.
December 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ninetenpub.bsky.social
And what a year it was. Thank you for weathering the challenges of 2025 with us, and for celebrating the joys. Here's to a fabulous New Year!
A faux envelope or folder with sheets coming out the top. The front one is labeled, "Year in Review --> 2025" and features the Nine Ten Publications logo, and an image with illustrated books and craft notions that says, "Bookish and Crafty." Year in Review / Nine Ten What We Made Together: * 1 crowdfunded book release (Quilting, by Andrea Tsang Jackson) * 3 books financed solely through pre-orders (thank you for making them possible!) * 1 successful Kickstarter (for A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, coming June 2026) Book covers of: Quilting, The Magic of Pockets, and A User's Guide to Yarn. Year in Review / Nine Ten Wins We're Celebrating: * 4 books released and, astonishingly, delivered amid one kind of shipping chaos or another * Secured full sales and distribution for our books in Canada * Secured full sales and distribution for our books outside of Canada * 2 The Globe and Mail bestsellers (The True Cost of Wool, by Anna Hunter; and Math for Knitters, by Kate Atherley). Book covers of The True Cost of Wool, and Math for Knitters. Year in Review / Nine Ten Looking Ahead: *More community connection for inspiration, feedback and fun * Smoother opertaions now that our books are available wherever books are sold * 3 (maybe more) books coming in 2026 * More experiments with zines and booklets.
December 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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kateatherley.bsky.social
You and me both. ❤️
December 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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kpwerker.bsky.social
No exaggeration, I banged the table and silent screamed when I saw this.
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2025 was the pits in many ways, but not all ways. Our pals at @microcosm.bsky.social have been a source of joy, support and deep nerdy conversations, and partnering with them to make our books available worldwide has been the absolute best. From their newsletter today 👇 (@kateatherley.bsky.social!!)
Screenshot from Microcosm Publishing's newsletter. Under a heading, "2025 sure did happen!" it says, "Here's some facts and figures from the year:" * It was the year of zines! We published SO MANY. * Remember that time I was so out of it during inauguration week that I sent out an email just called "placeholder"? *Our bestselling book the we published was the new edition of Make a Zine! *But our all time bestseller was from one of our kickass distribution clients (aka they make the books, we help them distribute them), Math for Knitters! * We reaffirmed our commitment to care and action. * We said a LOT of ridiculous things. Excited to see what 2026 brings for our 30th anniversary!"
December 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
ninetenpub.bsky.social
2025 was the pits in many ways, but not all ways. Our pals at @microcosm.bsky.social have been a source of joy, support and deep nerdy conversations, and partnering with them to make our books available worldwide has been the absolute best. From their newsletter today 👇 (@kateatherley.bsky.social!!)
Screenshot from Microcosm Publishing's newsletter. Under a heading, "2025 sure did happen!" it says, "Here's some facts and figures from the year:" * It was the year of zines! We published SO MANY. * Remember that time I was so out of it during inauguration week that I sent out an email just called "placeholder"? *Our bestselling book the we published was the new edition of Make a Zine! *But our all time bestseller was from one of our kickass distribution clients (aka they make the books, we help them distribute them), Math for Knitters! * We reaffirmed our commitment to care and action. * We said a LOT of ridiculous things. Excited to see what 2026 brings for our 30th anniversary!"
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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kpwerker.bsky.social
The spring was truly wild. I wrote all about it 👇
2025 Recap Part III: Q2 Is Wild
Tariffs, shipping disruption, and a bestseller
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December 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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perclexed.bsky.social
This is on my list to get in 2026.
ninetenpub.bsky.social Nine Ten Publications @ninetenpub.bsky.social · 24d
"Capable and straightforward guidance" is the cozy knitting approach we need right now, am I right? Thanks, @knitty.com, for this review of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social!

Read the whole thing at knitty.com/ISSUEw25/FEA....
Against a background of yarn and knitting projects and notions is a post-it note that reads, "I don't think I know a knitter who wouldn't benefit from Atherley's capable and straightforward guidance. –Knitty.com." A thumbnail image of the cover of Math for Knitters is to the top-right of the post-it.
December 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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It seems almost impossible, but the holidays are finally upon us. Nine Ten operations will be slowing down considerably.

📣 Orders placed in our online shop may or may not ship until full operations resume on January 5, 2026. Our books are available wherever books are sold, including craft shops.
On a background of mildly crumpled graph paper, an instant photo in the top-left and bottom-right corner display cozy crafty holiday vibes. In the centre of the paper cursive text reads, "Happy Holidays" and the rest of the paper features what look to be hand-drawn illustrations of ice skates and an open book, and some stars.
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ninetenpub.bsky.social
It seems almost impossible, but the holidays are finally upon us. Nine Ten operations will be slowing down considerably.

📣 Orders placed in our online shop may or may not ship until full operations resume on January 5, 2026. Our books are available wherever books are sold, including craft shops.
On a background of mildly crumpled graph paper, an instant photo in the top-left and bottom-right corner display cozy crafty holiday vibes. In the centre of the paper cursive text reads, "Happy Holidays" and the rest of the paper features what look to be hand-drawn illustrations of ice skates and an open book, and some stars.
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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The True Cost of Wool is about the wool industry in Canada - the harsh realities of the current situation, the potential for change, the barriers. It makes one value local fibre that much more. A slim tome packed with detailed research that tells an important story.
+ a Globe & Mail Bestseller! 2/2
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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As the year wraps up I'm highlighting a few of the books I read in 2025 that have stuck with me!

Non-fiction -The True Cost of Wool by Anna Hunter! (Paired with a book I featured last year as the two are in such close conversation: Vanishing Fleece by Parkes).
Why has this one stuck with me? 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"Capable and straightforward guidance" is the cozy knitting approach we need right now, am I right? Thanks, @knitty.com, for this review of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social!

Read the whole thing at knitty.com/ISSUEw25/FEA....
Against a background of yarn and knitting projects and notions is a post-it note that reads, "I don't think I know a knitter who wouldn't benefit from Atherley's capable and straightforward guidance. –Knitty.com." A thumbnail image of the cover of Math for Knitters is to the top-right of the post-it.
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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saffship.bsky.social
i would like to attest to the fact that my knitting has definitely benefitted from Kate Atherley's "capable & straightforward guidance". I am still indebted to her for solving the pointy ears problem when grafting toes. 🧶🧦
December 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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"Capable and straightforward guidance" is the cozy knitting approach we need right now, am I right? Thanks, @knitty.com, for this review of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social!

Read the whole thing at knitty.com/ISSUEw25/FEA....
Against a background of yarn and knitting projects and notions is a post-it note that reads, "I don't think I know a knitter who wouldn't benefit from Atherley's capable and straightforward guidance. –Knitty.com." A thumbnail image of the cover of Math for Knitters is to the top-right of the post-it.
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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2025 has been WILD. Here's my recap of the first quarter of the year. A book release, tariffs, exports, and a trade org application I thought would be accepted within weeks...

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2025 Recap: Part II
Q1: The bad omens
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December 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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kpwerker.bsky.social
I legit committed to @ninetenpub.bsky.social's biggest (by 2x) print run ever based on 1 viral IG post about the book, 1 email from a massive knitting business that resulted in 80 pre-orders in a day, and like 5 days of pacing and muttering and deciding to trust my gut.

If I had not done that,
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Still thinking about Heated Rivalry as a huge publishing story. I cannot stop. I'd ask for someone to send help, but this whole thing is really just giving me life, tbh.
kpwerker.bsky.social Kim Werker @kpwerker.bsky.social · 24d
Heated Rivalry is on the NYT Bestseller list this week (combined print and e-book fiction – imagine if paperbacks weren't sold out everywhere!!), and 3 books from the series, including HR obvs, are among Amazon US's top-10 most-sold books (all formats).
December 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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New article on the hot new @knitty.com... all about reading garment sizing info and choosing a size. Featuring me wearing a ridiculously fantastic recent thrift-store purchase! knitty.com/ISSUEw25/FEA...
ISSUEw25 ** Wiseknit™ : Knitty.com - Winter 2025
Knitty is the longest-running free knitting magazine on the web. Enjoy our huge selection of high-quality, tech-edited free knitting patterns and tutorials!
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December 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I'm chewing on an idea and asked newsletter subscribers about it today. I can't duplicate the poll here, but I'd love to know what you think—leave a reply, eh? The idea would be to set up a simple membership for connecting, sharing feedback about Nine Ten project ideas, maybe video call meetups...
A poll asking the question, "Would you join a Nine Ten community?" Response options are: * For a monthly video hangout? Sure! * To help shape Nine Ten's work? Yes. * Yes, no matter what the details are! * I miss Studio Hours so of course I'm in. * If members get special perks, count me in! * Nope, not for me. * I love peeking behind the scenes and having a chance to see what's coming. Yes! * If I'll get to learn from experts like Nine Ten authors, yes.
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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A USER'S GUIDE TO YARN, by Michelle Boyd, has a cover!

Pre-order it by backing the project on Kickstarter for a limited time for the option to add an exclusive WPI tool.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
Image announcing a book cover reveal. The cover has a white background with a thick border that's a photo of yarn in pinks and oranges, and features the title, subtitle, author and 12 illustrated swatches in weaving, knitting and crochet. Below the cover image it is says, "A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd. Coming June, 2026. Pre-orders are open!"
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Someone practically burst through the shop door today and growled (in that happy I want it way), “Maaath Boooook” and then went right for Math for Knitters by @kateatherley.bsky.social
Why yes, we are ordering more stock already, why do you ask? 😊
🧶 #knitting #yarnshop
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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kpwerker.bsky.social
Nearing the end of this bananas year I am having Ideas again. What would you think if I launched something like a Nine Ten Lab -- a paid membership for piloting ideas, testing things out, asking for feedback and suggestions, members get things first & help to shape what Nine Ten makes and becomes...
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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BC stories that are perfect for every giftee you have 📚🎁

To celebrate #BCBuyLocal Week we're sharing these BC books that you can shop at your local indie bookseller
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BC Books to Gift that Will Spark the Holiday Spirit - Read Local BC
Pick the perfect gift for a loved one, or find something to curl up with yourself this winter.
www.readlocalbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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liapas.bsky.social
It even had a few sewing techniques I wasn’t familiar with! A perfect book for the sewist in your life and very suitable for beginners as well. I would have liked a few more illustrations for some of the techniques but the instruction sections are very clear. 2/2
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Book 87 for 2025: The Magic of Pockets: A Feminist's Guide to Adding Pockets to Clothing That Really Should Have Pockets to Begin With by Jess Driscoll. This is a delightful little book with some fashion history & some down to earth techniques on making pockets. 1/2
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM