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Pigwidgeon Cowl PUBLISHED!!

Much excitement my friends! My first, actually completed and tech edited pattern is finally for sale!! It’s a simple, fluffy, super warm cowl. You can get it at <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/purchase/elizabeth-kramer-designs/499773">buy now</a>

It really brought home to me how very complicated a polished, published pattern is. Although the pattern itself is only about 4 lines long, the amount of information I had to include made it hard to fit on a single page!

I may have to revamp the way I write patterns. I’ve been so focused on getting the stitches in the right order and the charts correct before I do anything else. Right now it’s a very organic, disorganized and rather sloppy methodology that takes a lot of time to clean up. I know there has to be a better way, I just don’t know what way works best for me. As many books as I’ve read about process, and they still say, “it depends on the person.” Why can’t it be like math, and have an established procedure that works all the time?! Arg.

I have plenty of other patterns in the pipeline, stay tuned for more details!

Happy stitching!

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