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Monday, September 6, 2010

Careful What You Wish For

Oh, gosh. It has not seriously been a month since my last post?!?
Yes it has.
(guilty face)
Here's what's been happening. I submitted quite a few designs to Creative Knitting magazine, and also one to Yarn magazine, which is Australia based.
I also submitted designs to the Sanguine Gryphon, a hand dyed yarn website.
Guess what !

They all accepted my designs !!!
Creative accepted TWO of them!
That's in addtion to the 3 Irish Girls who had already accepted 2 of my patterns.
I am incredibly thrilled and grateful that they appreciate my design efforts.

Can you guess what's coming next?
Yes -- I have to knit and write patterns for a total of 6 items - 4 of them sweaters - in 6-8 weeks.
OMG.
(takes deep breaths).

I am not an especially fast knitter - I never needed to be fast so I didn't worry about it.

Based on my rough estimates, I think I may need to knit between 8 and 10 hours a day for the next 6 weeks. Maybe I'll get faster as time goes on. Maybe my estimates are off.

Yikes.

Anyway, wish me luck. I will be needing it.
Any helpful suggestions are welcome.

6 comments:

  1. Congratulations on the pattern sales, Brenda! THere are many "test" knitters out there who may be willing to help you knit the samples for a free pattern. Just sayin'. You could put the word out on Ravelry or on our SnB Yahoo group.

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  2. Wow that's interesting - you submit design ideas before writing and test knitting the pattern. I had no idea!

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  3. Yeah, my method, such as it is, is to do the sketch, and have an idea in my mind as to how I would knit it. Then I kind of simultaneously knit it and write the pattern together. I write what I do and do what I write. Remember, I'm self taught.
    I don't know exactly what to write in the pattern until I'm sure it works in the garment...

    I can't knit it in advance because the buyers of the design specify what yarn they want used. Often they supply the yarn.

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  4. Fingers & toes crossed for you that the knitting goes fast. Congratulations on the commissions.

    - Pam

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  5. congrats & knit swiftly!

    Re: submissions, I do pretty much the same as you; sketch, swatch in something sort of similar, make initial charts/spreadsheets, submit. If accepted &/or if I'm going to write it up regardless, then I start knitting & refining.

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  6. I just had one additional design accepted. I took Ellen's advice (thanks, Ellen!) and found a test knitter for it.

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