the thing about having magazines publish your patterns
is that so much of it becomes out of my control as a designer.
in most cases,
they choose the colors,
they rename the pattern, they take the photos, and they rewrite the pattern.
that leaves me, the designer, with the original idea
and the actual knitting.
no more, no less.
this is not all bad stuff
(unless you’re a bit of a control freak).
i mean,
i’ve knit with colors that i’ve loved
and never would have chosen.
i’ve read my patterns after rewrites and found ways to improve future patterns
that i most likely never would have thought of myself.
i’ve also learned to be stretched by
the look of other people’s interpretations
and to remain open to allowing myself to grow
during the process.
still, i usually have the feeling that there’s stuff i either
wanted the pattern to say or wanted to say about the pattern
that doesn’t get said when it’s published.
that’s what a blog is for, right?
so, here are the myriad of ways that i’d wear the #27 fringed scarf
which you didn’t see in the latest issue of noro magazine:
it’s really pretty versatile, isn’t it?
can you tell that i get easily bored and like lots of options?
true fact.
#27 fringed scarf