I really do try to be modest. I always feel weird giving myself a pat on the back or trying to promote the things I do. I don’t know if it’s because I don’t feel like what I do is anything out of the ordinary, or if it’s because I’ve been trained for critique, but I never really know when I’ve done a great job, and I have no idea how to accept compliments.
So yeah. That was the Weeping Angel pattern sometime on Tuesday evening. My most “successful” pattern to date had gained something like 300 downloads on Ravelry over the course of about 5 years. Weeping Angel had over 500 in a 24-hour span, and that was the test-knit without any kind of example pictures. That, I guess, is the power of the Whovian Fanbase. Even so, after adding a few example pictures of the first “real” sock off the needles, we’re over 800 downloads.
I really do have to thank Sherri and Jennifer, who have been my first-out-of-the-gate test knitters. Both of them found almost the same “bugs” in the pattern at the same times. Sherri, who is local, would text my phone, and at almost the same time, I would get a Ravelry message from Jennifer. It’s almost scary how in-sync those two are! They also caught quite a few things that I had missed, partially due to my text editor’s autocorrect, and partially due to having worked on the pdf so much that I was glossing over things. I believe that Chelsea is going to be casting on her testknit soon, so she’ll be able to see if there are any errors that the other two may have overlooked.
Reactions on Ravelry have, so far, been really favourable (yes, I’m prone to understatement when it comes to my work). To the point where I’m not sure how to take the praise. All I can say is “Thank you!” My own test knit pair went really quickly once I found the time to actually knit them (work has had its challenges this past week), and I have to admit that if I didn’t know the designer personally (duh) I’d be flogging them all over the interwebs as a really cool pattern that people really needed to try out and OMG the heel expansion is SO COOL.
You get the picture. The kitty, however, is unimpressed. The recent humidity and inherent furry-ness of kitties do not mix well, so she is taking advantage of today’s much cooler and overcast weather to get caught up on some sleep that does not involve snoozing directly under the ceiling fan in the living room.
In the meantime, I’ve started spinning again (more on that later) and when I’m not working on that, I’m getting more work done on that second HitchHiker scarf I cast on back in April.
And yes. I’m thinking of the next sock design. 🙂
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