best laid plans and all…

To those of you waiting for the Felted Kicks pattern that is advertised in the Interweave Knits magazine, I apologize.

Despite my best intentions, that pattern is not quite ready. It will be another 2 weeks before it is up on the website.

I am to blame. I remember the exact moment, when I decided to run that ad. I went and looked at the pattern and photos and decided I had plenty of time to get it ready to roll.

And then you know what happened?  I did not put it on my list.  I know blasphemy. So, it took a detour way past my very full memory bank, right into a big black hole. Not to be thought of again until I was leafing through said magazine. Imagine my surprise.

I made up some new words!

To make sure this does not happen again I am programming in a back up with Cassie and Tim, the wonderfully talented graphic designers I work with. Back up is always good!

Most of the time I do learn from my mistakes.
(You can stop laughing now.)

So sorry!

I will not be at the Seattle Stitch’n Pitch this evening or Tricoter today. I have gotten hit by some awful bronchial plague and have not been able to will it away.
Denying that this was kicking me to the sidelines has not worked either.
So I give. Not even going to worry about color selection today. Going back to bed.

So many colors.

So little time…
I feel a little bit like the white rabbit in Alice. Franticly running about and chanting I am late, I am late for a very important date. In fact I am not late, just having a hard time making color decisions. So my chant is “ I can’t decide,I can’t decide” added into the frantic pacing.
There are colors that have to go back because it is that time of year. There are the lovely fall colors from the “color vault” that need to see the light of day again.  There is the absolute MASSIVE amount that has been pouring out of me for the past two months.  New colors that I am in love with and want to add to the wall of color here. and share with you all.
Oh and let’s not forget the “Spirits”,who are all on my kitchen table quietly whispering and reminding me of their presence every single time I walk by. Yikes, color haunting.
Because we have limited space and time, there are only so many that we can offer at one given time. This is one of the several reasons we rotate colors. Sometimes I find it extremely frustrating and a wee bit constricting. This is certainly one of those times.  Which is why I feel slightly white rabbitish.  Although this fellow that I ran into this weekend embodies some of the more edgy feelings I have been working with in relation to my color choosing angst.

Holding onto new colorways whether they are still in my head or on yarn is one of the hardest parts of what I do now.  There is truth to the saying, “there is a time and season for everything” in relationship to color.  However, I am enough of a child at heart that I want to share and say, “Ohh look!  Isn’t this wonderful and wouldn’t it be great here and here and yes, even here in this yarn, with this stitch and ...  look what this color does when it meets and mingles with this one.” I do have my close yarny friends I share this with and it helps a lot. 
Ultimately though, it is sharing it with you that is fulfilling.  Seeing what everyone does with it. Who likes what and why. Who does not like what and why.  Like, I still do not understand why there are not more who are head over heels for Highway 30. Don’t get it, I love this colorway. Maybe it is that season thing. Could be that this color mixture has just not hit its prime-time.
Anyway, I am finalizing this next rotation today so I get the photos done and ready for the techies to put on the site on the 18th.
Seems really soon doesn’t it?