Design Tips
Tip #1 would be - Do not insult an editor if you intend to submit a design.
Okay, it seems self evident, one would think. However, I had an amazingly vitriolic email from a woman writing about the 2006 calendar - and then she ends by saying she wants to submit to the 2007 calendar. WHA??
I told her I had enough designs (not really, but who needs to deal with that kind of anger?) and she wrote back
Apparently she was upset because yarn substitions were made in the calendar. It was - in most cases - necessary due to yarn availability, or to replace a discontinued color from a different yarn line. You can imagine what a headache this was to keep up with - especially with sketchy yarn info on some patterns - so in some cases I chose to go with a yarn I knew to be more widely available across the country. Also, for the record, I had been asked to take over the project from the previous editor in late November. That left me a big NINE weeks to compile the whole thing, so - yes - I did use a lot of my own designs. I had to - there just wasn't time to get as many submissions as I would have liked. NOT a problem this year!
Oh, well... What are folks thinking? After a week away - and some REALLY lovely classes - it's rough to come home to such an angry email. But on the positive side, I have been receiving so many submissions that my head is spinning, which is tremendous - keep them coming! But if you yell at me I probably won't use your design - just a heads up. I'm funny that way.
8 Hours in South Orange
After teaching in Connecticut, Northhampton, MA and Boston I'm back home for a few hours until I leave tomorrow for LA. I will be staying with - ta da - Laurie, and I've heard that there are some wild things doing chez Aunt Purl. If I were a little less exhausted I'd be WAAAAY excited (as it is, I'm waaay excited) and I fully intend to sleep on the plane. Woo. hoo. wo.
Okay, it seems self evident, one would think. However, I had an amazingly vitriolic email from a woman writing about the 2006 calendar - and then she ends by saying she wants to submit to the 2007 calendar. WHA??
I told her I had enough designs (not really, but who needs to deal with that kind of anger?) and she wrote back
Too bad I won't be on board, as many will not know through this calendar my designing capabilities. I guess if you would have used more of the patterns submitted verses your own, you would have room for more submissions. I am real [sic] disappointed in this publication. It was not biased was it?
Apparently she was upset because yarn substitions were made in the calendar. It was - in most cases - necessary due to yarn availability, or to replace a discontinued color from a different yarn line. You can imagine what a headache this was to keep up with - especially with sketchy yarn info on some patterns - so in some cases I chose to go with a yarn I knew to be more widely available across the country. Also, for the record, I had been asked to take over the project from the previous editor in late November. That left me a big NINE weeks to compile the whole thing, so - yes - I did use a lot of my own designs. I had to - there just wasn't time to get as many submissions as I would have liked. NOT a problem this year!
Oh, well... What are folks thinking? After a week away - and some REALLY lovely classes - it's rough to come home to such an angry email. But on the positive side, I have been receiving so many submissions that my head is spinning, which is tremendous - keep them coming! But if you yell at me I probably won't use your design - just a heads up. I'm funny that way.
8 Hours in South Orange
After teaching in Connecticut, Northhampton, MA and Boston I'm back home for a few hours until I leave tomorrow for LA. I will be staying with - ta da - Laurie, and I've heard that there are some wild things doing chez Aunt Purl. If I were a little less exhausted I'd be WAAAAY excited (as it is, I'm waaay excited) and I fully intend to sleep on the plane. Woo. hoo. wo.
posted by Annie at
Thursday, October 20, 2005
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