I’ve been writing my own patterns ever since I started knitting-instead of looking up how to do something, I typically just make up a pattern on the fly. Lately, people have been asking me a lot if I would write down some of the patterns, so they can make it too. It’s one of my favorite things about spending time at the local yarn store each week-getting to compare patterns and see what everyone is making-only typically no one ever can make the same thing as me, since I haven’t bothered to write down what I did. So, I am starting to actually write patterns, rather than just make them up. I need to figure out test knitters better, but I took the plunge, wrote up a pattern, and put it on Ravelry. My first pattern! It’s the leaf shawl one, that I made two of back in the spring, in green and rainbow.
I’m still figuring out exactly how all that works, so while I thought I was only putting it up so test knitters could reference, I seem to have published it for all to see. I was going to wait until at least one test knitter had the shawl done, and posted a project on Ravelry, so that there would be pictures and proof that more people had made it than just me. Ah well, the test knitters are working away right now. I think they’re far enough along that there shouldn’t be any major changes at this point. Hopefully. Also, this pattern will be included as a pattern option when buying yarn from Seven SIster’s Farm, along with my mum’s little anklet socks and a hat pattern from Mellisa of Knitting the Stash.