Today's a day that I'm trying to get some things done. Well, sort of.
This morning I got up, ate a toasted bread heel with homemade grape jelly, and opened the County Barn, threw down my ground blanket, rolled out my yoga mat, and started doing Son Salutations, then went into a whole self-created, whatever-I-could-come-up-with, spur-of-the-moment routine that lasted about a half hour or so. I'd been thinking for quite some time now that the county barn, with its cool air and doors wide-open to the morning sun, would be a great place to do some morning yoga. And I was right. Until the fire awareness meeting started and a half dozen of my coworkers were all standing outside at the barn's fire hydrant, watching me.
I finished knitting a tank top a couple weeks ago now, but I had a bit more yarn leftover than I expected, and I wanted to try and take the top apart and lengthen it a bit. But if you know me, you know how much I detest frogging (or tinking, as the case may be) - even if it means that I will like the end product more for my efforts. Well, in putting this off, I started looking at other shirt patterns on Ravelry, and then suddenly I was inspired to do something that I'd meant to do quite some time ago: I listed my own, self-designed pattern - dubbed the "Whitefish Headband" - for sale on ravelry. The pattern costs $3.50 and it's all ready to be downloaded by eager knitters. We'll see if I get any bites... lol.
In doing that, I was suddenly inspired to create another pattern. So I've now ordered more yarn not for a pattern I found but for a pattern that is working itself out in my head and on the sketchpad for a sort of tunic tank top. When I finish it, not only will I (hopefully) have a nice new shirt to wear, but I will have a pattern that others might be interested in which I could sell on Ravelry to make a few extra bucks. I've decided to call my store "Nomadic Knitwear" and I'm going to design patterns inspired by the different places that I've been. Let the entrepreneuriality begin.
Can you post a picture of your knitted tank top? I'd like to see it! :)
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