Pattern writing and submission, embroidery and embroidery alternatives
Spent today writing one pattern, re-writing another. I didn’t get any of the pictures taken. Looks like Tyrone is going to help me tomorrow.
I’m looking for places to send these patterns off too. The knitty.com deadline is March 15, and so is magknits.com. I don’t know if my patterns are appropriate for either.
Tomorrow, I think I’m going to write something up for readymade.com, and another thing for instructables.com.
I’m also attracted to supernaturale.com. They have a really cool article on crafting your wedding. I think I have a bunch to add to to it, and maybe even some fun failures. I tried to make a 1930s deco bias-cut gown, but apparently in the 1930s, I have a size 6 chest and size 14 hips. The dress was also backless, so there was no way to structurally engineer a way to rectify the dress. It was a good learning process.
There is another project I’m working on where embroidery doesn’t quite cut it, so I have a nice little experiment with crewling coming up next week. Here is a bit of embroidery I did with a kit my friend Sarah gave me: 
It is from Sublime Stitching. Click on the picture to enlarge it!
Ty and I took a walk around Holmes Lake today. It is so nice and warm. I want to start cutting back grasses with the hedge trimmer already, but it is too wet.