Just Like That
The very day that I posted about a lack of photographic evidence of the things I'm working on, I found something new to share after all. The thing I needed was right there on the dining room table, and I had been walking past it for two days without seeing it. Typical. My dining room table erupts piles of mail at an alarming rate. One day I'm gonna locate the continuum rift conducting these piles and plug it up for good. Until that happens though, my strategy will be to manage the mail-hills by ignoring them until they become mountains. Works a lot like the laundry heap, I notice: Must come from the same quantum rift.
If I had opened the front cover of the latest Knit Picks catalog, I would have noticed that I had a photo for you the other day. If I had remembered that I made a swell pattern for them due out in April, I might have visited the KP website and seen that there was a perfectly good show-and-tell opportunity right there:
This is the very same reverse-engineered pullover that I wrote about last November, finished in its proper yarn and pretty Dang Cute, if I do say so myself.
{SOAPBOX ALERT:} I especially love that Knit Picks uses real humans to model their designs (isn't she lovely?) - I can imagine this on my sister, my neighbor, or any of the beautiful ladies in my life. If you agree, let them know please - I'd love them to hear that showing designs on actual women instead of emaciated teenagers is appreciated by more than a few knitters. {END SOAPBOX}
I have to admit that I am still new enough to the design world that seeing something I dreamed up right there in the flesh is a real thrill. I hope it will always feel like that. It's not every day I get a horn of this nature to toot, so I'll just leave it like this:
Hope you like it too.