fishie’s aquarium

It should go without saying that I’ve been kinda stressed the last few (many?) months. Not having a job through two entire seasons can do that to you. I got a lot of knitting done, but that’s pretty much the only good thing about it.

Fortunately, I have a job now and have finished my third week. Unfortunately, working until 6 pm every day and needing to go to bed early makes it so that I’ve gotten hardly any knitting done (I’m working on the Karma Tank from the Custom Knits book). Even more unfortunately, I don’t know if I’d be able to knit if I did have time because my right wrist has been bothering me. I went to the orthopedist, but she said I don’t have tendinitis and my x-rays showed perfectly healthy bones. I’m still getting occupational therapy for it, but it’s not comforting to know that a specialist has no idea why my wrist hurts.

I’m way behind on the designing I wanted to do while I was unemployed, but since that’s all stuff I’d be self-publishing, I’m not too worried about missing my “deadline.” Then I remembered, as I was taking a bath to relax a few minutes ago: I submitted a design proposal to a yarn company in the beginning of March. Two months have passed. I don’t know how quickly they go through submissions, but I feel a little uneasy that I haven’t been contacted yet. Typically, you find out pretty soon if you didn’t get picked. You find out later if you have. I don’t doubt that I could come up with a pattern pretty quickly… the problem is when am I going to KNIT it? Especially if my wrist isn’t better by whenever I’d need to start knitting. I’m thinking I should start on the beginning designing steps: write something like “CO 5 inches, knit in pattern A even for 3 inches, decrease to 4 inches in width over 2 inches in length” etc. I don’t know what yarn I’d be using so I can’t exactly write up stitch counts at this point. In any case, I think writing a pattern in this way is probably my best bet in the first place: it will make sizing SO MUCH EASIER. I’ve tried to use the spreadsheets people have talked about to calculate everything, but doing it that way just seems backwards to me.

Anyway.

STRESS.

I shouldn’t be NOT wanting a design submission to get rejected. I need to get myself in order and submit designs AFTER I’ve written them up and knit them.