{"id":236,"date":"2013-02-01T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=236"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:26:18","slug":"but-i-must-make-all-the-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"But I must make ALL the samples"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work best to a deadline.\u00a0 I\u2019m not the world\u2019s worst procrastinator, though I would probably rank in the top 10, but nothing focuses my mind like knowing I\u00a0have<\/em> to get something finished by a set date.\u00a0 I was one of those kids in school who did the homework when it was set so I didn\u2019t have to write a 2,000 word essay the night before it was due in.<\/p>\n

I am also one of those people who thinks about all<\/strong> about the details.\u00a0 I tend to want to share *everything* I know, all at once.\u00a0 If I know 50 ways to cast on, and you ask me how to cast on, I find it very difficult to not tell you all 50 ways right then and there \u2013 even though I know that can be more than a little overwhelming for any student of mine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not wanting me to show off, its how my brain works and how I like to learn \u2013 once I\u2019ve heard of something I can file it away and retrieve it at a later date.\u00a0 I prefer going on courses where I come away feeling that not only have I learnt something right now, but that I also have more I can go and find out myself<\/em>.\u00a0 Now, that\u2019s true of any course \u2013 but having the right key words to start my searches really helps.\u00a0 Practising my basic techniques\/new knowledge for a couple of months and then thinking \u201cah yes, the teacher said something about twisted rib\u201d means I might know nothing about twisted rib right now \u2013 but I do have the key phrase to help me Google it.\u00a0 I\u2019d much rather work like this than master my basic skills and think \u2018now what?\u2019 and have to trawl through hours and hours of internet to work out what the next step is.<\/p>\n

Now that the drugs are working I\u2019ve been able to commit to several teaching dates (yay!), but this means that I want to produce a warehouse full of samples and swatches and patterns.<\/p>\n

My problem is that I think of a technique I want to share, and my brain more or less implodes.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take crochet cables as an example.\u00a0 I know that I want to have at least one finished project that is some form of useable item.\u00a0 Easily done.\u00a0 I also know that I own about 65 individual different cable patterns and the small, mad, uberlord-of-the-universe part of me wants to make a sample of each one as a demonstration swatch.\u00a0 Which is just insane right?<\/p>\n

Cables would be part of a larger course.\u00a0 One that included texture stitches (now I know I have a couple hundred different stitch patterns for that), lace work (another couple hundred) and colour-work (joining colours \u2013 there\u2019s at least 5 ways right there, vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, bias stripes, tapestry work, over embroidery and cross stitch, carrying the yarn, not carrying the yarn\u2026 and this is just me thinking off the top of my head).<\/p>\n

Suddenly my 1 day texture course has at least 5 finished projects and over 500 swatches.\u00a0 Obviously the sensible thing to do is group these samples into over-reaching categories and make some swatches do multiple jobs (vertical stripes with carried yarn for example).\u00a0 Lots of these skills are the same across the principle \u2013 once you\u2019ve done a 3 stitch cable it\u2019s the same technique for a 4 stitch cable.\u00a0 My difficultly lies in deciding *which* stitch patterns to use and which to leave out!<\/p>\n

Of course, my own personal headache (and I do understand that this is a monkey entirely of my own creation) is compounded by the fact that I am not preparing for just one course.\u00a0 Oh, no.\u00a0 I have to go for four different courses, in four different techniques that need completely different sets of swatches and samples.<\/p>\n

I am aware that each of these has its own deadline, that sensibly I have to finish the swatches I need for the first of the courses first.\u00a0 However that doesn\u2019t stop my brain being distracted from \u201cI\u00a0need<\/em> to finish that lace swatch\u201d to \u201cbut I could demonstrate cable techniques by crocheting a knee-length Arran sweater\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ah, yes.\u00a0 That\u2019s the other issue.\u00a0 For some reason my crafting brain seems to believe there is no time between *imagining* a project and it being in existence.\u00a0 Therefore my brain things it\u2019s perfectly reasonable to suggest crocheting a cable sampler queen sized blanket as a demonstration piece.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even\u00a0want<\/strong> a queen sized blanket!\u00a0 But it would be a cool demonstration piece wouldn\u2019t it?!<\/p>\n

Must focus on the smaller projects \u2013 I can see me having to design some hard-working, multiple technique garments in the near future!<\/p>\n

Right now I’m going to block a project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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