A quick note and a very Happy New Year to all of you (and yours).
Many people take the new year as a time of reflection and a time to set goals for the next twelve months. I’m a big believer in doing now what can be done now, so I don’t really set myself big overarching life-goals for the next year. Instead, what I do is think about my past year in terms of creating knitting patterns, and create a yearly “to-do” list. It helps order my thoughts and lets me figure out what I want to accomplish in terms of creative crafting.
This year, one of my to-dos, is to spin for designing more. Late in 2016 is when I really got back into spinning after a very long break, and now that I have a healthy sized stash of handspun, and have gotten more comfortable spinning purposefully, this is something I really want to go at hard for 2018.
2018 for me will also be all about keeping to a schedule – a release schedule for patterns, specifically. When I started designing a few years ago and up until the end of 2017, I kind of released a pattern whenever. This resulted in radio silence for several months, followed by a flurry of releases. I’m not totally happy with that, so for 2018 expect a bit more of a regular occurrence with my pattern releases.
Which is an excellent segue (love a good segue!), for a little sneak peak of my newest pattern, Trochu, coming out this month.
I’ve had a really awesome round of testers for this knit, and I can’t wait to share this pattern with you. The name comes from a small town in Alberta, about two hours south of me. We have particularly cold, windy winters in the prairies of Alberta, and this knit is designed to help keep you warm.
Stay tuned, the pattern will be releasing in about a week!