Oh those waves.. They wrapped me in love and summer memories. It took no time at all to knit that big, cosy shawl and then I sat down right away and wrote up the pattern and sent it into test knitting and now it is all done and waiting for the photo shoot.
That's what happened, right, please tell me that was what I did...
Oh, alright you guessed it! While it is true that it took no time to knit up and it really is a cosy shawl, the rest of the actions above never took place. The only piece of the pattern that has been written up is the final decrease and BO. It wasn't for a lack of good intentions, but you know what they say about those and a certain road going some place warm. Sigh.
Thus now I have to do something I dread. I have to reverse engineer the pattern. That isn't the worst that could happen, but there's a catch... There's always a catch when you find yourself in this kind of situation, isn't there?!
The catch is that I have absolutely no time on my hands to write up the pattern at the moment. Truth be told, I'm struggling to make designing a priority right now. What I need is more hours in the day, but don't we all need that from time to time. It's not that I've fallen out of love with this project or designing in general, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's simply that between my full time study gig and two side jobs, designing, which at the moment is an expense more than a job, just has to be done last.
I still lay in bed at night when I'm about to go to sleep and dream about my first collection being finished. I dream bigger dreams sometimes of a romantic life filled with theology, wonderful people and lots of knit wear designing. And then I stop myself, because isn't that pretty much the life I live right now? It sure is filled with romance, theology, wonderful people and some knit wear designing...
So instead of beating myself up about not haven written up the pattern for the waves shawl yet, I'm beginning to think it isn't that bad of a deal. At least when everything goes wrong in the writing because I've forgotten it all, I'll have some to share with you!
Let me know when you need a test knitter :) It looks positively cozy and you know none of us have any free time until after the holidays!!
ReplyDeleteI will, thank you :) I have just over a week off in the end of January, maybe I can write it up then. :)
DeleteThe shawl looks lovely and it'd be a real shame if the pattern wouldn't get written. But don't beat yourself up if you simply don't have the time right now. A free moment will come at one point and you can give the pattern writing all the time it deserves. Reversed engineering isn't optimal, but I'm sure you can figure out again what you did. Our mind can be quite miraculous at remembering small things sometimes :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your kind and encouraging words Tahnee, they were just what I needed to hear today. And yes you are right our mind can! And I do have some notes ;)
DeleteOh I can relate to your lack of designing (in my case knitting) time. Especially before the holiday season it seems like time flies by and we don't get to do half the stuff we would like to do. But hey, calmer times will come and I'm sure writing the pattern will be rather quickly once you've got a couple of undisturbed hours to focus on one project without having a million other things on your mind.
ReplyDeleteYou are right it does!
DeleteBeen there, done that ... I find if I knit it again the pattern I should have written down comes back to me. But the time thing, I'm looking for the solution to that one too!
ReplyDeleteAhh yes, while I love the shawl I have no great urge to knit it again. I think a swatch will do if there is something I don't recall at all.
DeleteLet me know if you figure out the time aspect!