I got a little too excited upgrading this blog when I saw little red dots in the plugins area. Right now I either loose my navigation tabs to the rest of my website in one theme, or I loose the internal navigation tabs to the blog pages on another theme.
At least I have a pretty photo up of my Sempervivum Shawl.
I’m reading through Tara Swiger’s Map Your Business with some friends. Something about the questions has made me realize a theme in the patterns I’m hoping to publish this year: I’m collaborating on the design of them to some extent with the people who will be modeling them.
I know that trying to get too many things accomplished at the same time is counter productive, but I get excited creating for people; not photoshoots. And no LYS’s are seeking to hold trunk shows of my work – the moths will have long dined on my pieces before they are needed again in pristine condition. So if I make things in the sizes that will fit people, to the shape they like regardless of my guess at fashion in a year or two, someone will be wearing the piece. We’ll see if this helps or hinders pattern sales. I’m still very much in the try and see phase, although I made my first ever profit in 2018. (After selling patterns since 2011.)
Here is a teaser swatch (though it turns out you can’t do the same trick on a cylinder that you can on a square)
