Toeing the water

I finally took the plunge and contributed my mostly-tested pattern to Ravelry and then foolishly misnamed my 'store'. Arrrgh! How embarassing. Edit: Oh thank goodness, the Ravelry powers-that-be fixed it for me already. Whew.

I'm really looking forward to posting Flowertot. Got some really terrific feedback from testers.

I wrote up the pattern for Flowertot (LGT Rav) and with a few tweaks, was really proud of it. And it looks like a coherent pattern! To make it a really useful pattern though, I have to grade (size) it to be knittable for bigger babies. I kind of fluked through it the first time, so I hit a "math snag" while working on the grading. I can't think how to write out the section clearly - I settled for letting the knitter know how many stitches to increase over how many total stitches, and I hope that's good enough.

All this grading/math has left me feeling pretty inadequate about my math/pattern writing skills. I can only imagine someone a little more limber with numbers looking at it and figuring it out right away. Like knitting, I hope that pattern writing (and associated math) gets easier with practice.

get the lead out

Wow, I abandoned this blog almost as quickly as I created it. I'm considering letting my other, regular blog lapse as I haven't even posted in 2010 and shouldn't be paying to host some old ramblings. I usually post all knitting-related drivel right onto my Ravelry project notes, but I'm starting to design more stuff and gave more thought to using this page. So I'm dusting it off.