This has been a busy and productive week for me. I published the Capillary pattern – part of the Seven Fingerless Mittens collection – on Monday.
Then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I made numerous trips to the UPS store to ship off all my samples for my upcoming book with Cooperative Press. Obviously I’m extremely nervous about sending off these samples, as they represent many months of hard work, and should they get lost in the mail I don’t even know what I’d do. So far, 3 shawls have arrived safely to the publisher and the remaining ones should show up on Monday or Tuesday. I will sleep better when they do. 
For a while there, this is what all my hard work looked like:
Etcetera.
There were many packages like that all over my dining room table. Exciting to see. I’m sure it will be even more exciting once the official photoshoot has taken place and the pictures can be put in the book.
In other exciting news, like I mentioned the other day, a Kickstart campaign was launched on Thursday for the upcoming Fresh Design Series with Cooperative Press. The Fresh Design series is a set of 10 books with collections of patterns, like Shawls, Sweaters, Mittens, Scarves, etc. I think there are about 10 patterns in each book – so 100 brand new patterns. Two of the patterns in the series are mine, and both of them feature in the little video on the Kickstart page. It’s really nice to see so many lovely pictures. The campaign has only been running for 3 days, and has already raised $3,000+.
Aside from that, I’ve also been knitting away on the orange shawl I started last week at the café. This Friday I went back and spent a lovely morning knitting with friends and drinking tea. The shawl is getting close to done, and I might actually even bind off today, if things go as planned.
I love this colour. It almost looks like it’s glowing. It’s Krissy lace yarn from Land-O-Lace in Waconia.
The other projects were fun to look at, as usual. The entrelac swatch from last week had been finished, and an entrelac afghan was in progress. And instead of working on the lace sweater, Fiona was spinning with a drop-spindle while we were there. Spinning sure does look like a lot of fun, but I really can’t try. I just don’t have time for another addiction.
Once I finish my lace shawl, I’ll be casting on for another pair of fingerless mittens. I have the design all figured out, I just have to actually knit them. Can’t show to much yet, since I haven’t even cast on, but they will be knit in this lovely fingering weight yarn from Land-O-Lace.
