Sleepy Pattern Notes
So, I’m laying there in bed, tired and ready to fall asleep, but a pattern I’ve been working on won’t let me. An idea for an edging comes to mind, so I wip out my EnV phone and type up the pattern in my notes section as I see it in my head so I won’t forget it in the morning. My brain still wants to play with the pattern and think about other crochet-related things, so I force it to start counting backwards from 500. I didn’t even make it to 400 before I fell asleep. (Yes, counting backwards amazingly helps me fall asleep by occupying my mind.)
At 7:00, my alarm goes off. My daughter had to be at work this morning, and I still needed to toss some clothes in the dryer, so I got up way earlier than I wanted to for a rainy Saturday morning. Of course, the pattern was still in my head, so after taking care of the laundry, I sat down to work on it. The edging worked nothing like I wanted it to–no surprise there since I wrote it in my near-sleep state.
I played with it some more, and finally got an edge going that I can live with. Now I just have to block the piece (it’s done in size 10 thread and is a small square doily), write up the pattern, get good ol’ Deb to test it for me, and then it’ll be ready to use for teaching and to put in my pattern store. That makes three patterns I now have to get ready for self-publishing. Woot. And only one of them was partially written in my sleep.
I have to thank this course I’m taking for my pattern writing these days. It’s not easy to find patterns out there that don’t have a “don’t print more than once nor use for personal gain” clause on them, so I’m writing my own to use for teaching, as well as to share. It works out grand, really, since I’m teaching a pattern I actually wrote and definitely know how it should be worked.
It’s going to be a busy crochet weekend since I’m trying to finish this pattern, working on the breast cancer awareness blanket our local crochet guild is donating to the cause, working on my class, and testing a pattern for my partner in crime pattern testing.
The crochet life is good.
Tags: pattern writing
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August 23, 2008 10:31 am
