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January 3, 2012 · Filed under My first book |
Today I turned in the manuscript for the book. Huzzah! There are still some loose ends to clean up, and lots to photograph (wish me luck in this weather!) but I can’t tell you how excited I am. I wish I could share it all with you. I can’t even believe I designed so many things in one year. I think I was a little crazy when I took it all on, but I can’t tell you how anxious I am for the next steps. I had the pleasure of meeting Lily Chin at last years TNNA, and I recall saying to her “I have no idea what happens after I turn everything in, thats the part I’m most anxious about” to which she replied; “get ready Brandy, you get ready for it!!”
I’m here, and I’m ready for it.
Lace, garter stitch, top down raglan, bottom up seamless, pieced, boys, girls, other *things*. Cables, short-rows, slipped stitches, twisted stitches and LGs favorite animal. I can not wait for you to see.
November 19, 2011 · Filed under Life, My first book |
It feels like the whole country has been so divided for so long now, I do not want a political discussion because there are no winners in that, but I would like to discuss how depressing it is to have things so polarized. It’s hard to feel “together” in all this with the current climate. I’m so tired of it.
The book is due SOON, like really soon. Exciting I suppose, I won’t enjoy that excitement until it’s turned in! the manuscript itself is the part I have to turn in first, then I have to finish knitting some of the stuff and photographing them. It’s taken so long and taken over so much of my life I will be really happy to have it completed. I want to knit something again for the pure joy of knitting it. It’s been hard to enjoy the photography aspect of it because the weather is not what I really wanted to be working with, but such is life. Sorry if this is slightly depressing, I’m just a bit frustrated and want to have more work complete, faster. We’ll be visiting my family next week, which is a bad idea time-wise but it’s been a year and life is too short to not see family.
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Its a very exciting time now, and stressful too. I’ve finished all of the sketches and swatches for the book (aside from one I have to felt, ohhhhh felt! Now I’ve got you wondering huh?) Now I’m knitting all the final samples for the models to wear and I can’t tell you how exciting that is to be knee deep in that process! Once each pattern is written I’ll work on having them test knit, and the math tech edited. Then later, another tech editor will be going through everything. Very happy to know it they will be reviewed twice by two different tech editors.
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It’s been crazy over here, my husband was out of town for three entire weeks, first to Canada and then on a business trip in a closer state. I am exhausted. I totaled my car that first week he was gone (and in Canada with no way to help me). Then my computer died (my new one, hah!) and apple told me it was a bad hard drive (aka their fault) and I lost THREE MONTHS worth of photos of my kids and anything else I photographed for my online stuff. Seriously sad stuff. I had last backed up everything in February, and I did not expect a new computer to die on me. Apple is still a far superior product to windows but I am disappointed in how getting bigger has, as always started to chip away at a wonderful company. The bigger companies get, the worse they get, seems to always be pretty reliable an assumption. SOME things do get better, but quality always seems to suffer for success.
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Last week was wonderful, I had Wednesday and Friday with LG in daycare. I had no idea how it would go, I set my expectations low. When I went to drop her off on wednesday, everyone was outside so it worked to my favor that she didn’t cry when I left. Who would cry when they have a slide and swing to distract them? The report was a great day, with no cheers and she had, *gasp* fun. I had not thought she would, her few times at the YMCA had not been so great.
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My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine 
