Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Got the order for Unicorn ready for UPS to pick up sometime tomorrow.

Son arrived home today for the Thanksgiving holiday, and we spent many hours talking about politics, quantum physics, black holes, the string theory and other brain-twisting things! No conversation with my son is ever about anything small, mundane or trivial! He's a delight. It's so stimulating to talk with someone whose brain is always *on* and up on topics most people don't read, nor talk, about.

But now I need to get back to work! I printed initial copies of 2 patterns I'm working on, for proofing, but - and this seems to happen alot lately - I name the design, then if I think the design idea warrants a series of designs, I give it a "collection" name as well. So, a design now has 2 versions, which fit some collection or series theme.

But, I have that new Lily Chin book, about beading. Just bought it Saturday. So, I'm jotting notes and fine-tuning my thoughts on the theme and the idea hits for a 3rd variation on the theme. Then, it's like a mix of "oh no" and "oh yes" as it hits me. Oh yes, as the idea is great and oh, no, as it means more samples to knit before I can publish the design!

Then I'm thinking that that really great collection name I had given it no longer fits (darn) and I need to expand it to be inclusive of this 3rd idea.

But that's OK - in the end, it will be a better pattern for offering so much more than it was going to offer, when it began. But this is what's it's like to have many more ideas than time!