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Designing-Writing-Editing

3/31/2019

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Designing-Writing & Editing

The world of 'I just got an idea and have to make it' has gone to a whole new level. 

When I was first introduced to the publishing concept, I couldn't believe it was right in front of me for so long. 

In all of the magazines and books I'd collected over a couple of decades, I had often wondered, 'where do all of those patterns come from?' 


After joining a Guild Group in 2010, I was encouraged to send in a simple scarf design to submissions call.  To my surprise -
It was accepted and I was forever changed.  I had been bitten by the 'designing bug'.  Considering all of the things I'd made up over the years, most of which I had never written down.  They were just one and done projects for whom or what-ever.  Had I just written them down - WOW!

Now that I've gone through this time warp - the notebooks and binders and pieces of paper are truly force to be reckoned with in my craft-room.  I am always looking at designs - on walls, on floors, in nature; texture and color.  They swirl around in my brain at a pace I can hardly control sometimes.  I can never seem to get it all on paper.  But the ideas I have captured, whether drawn or written, well, they are stacking up.  Now that I have taken the next step to open an on-line store (on Ravelry) I hope to work them up and humbly present them to the stitching world. 

Whether approved, loved or sought after or not - it doesn't really matter.... I just need to nurture these ideas and send them out there.  I DO hope they sprout as much happiness and fun in stitching - as they were fun for me to cultivate & grow.   
--- Thanks for reading and letting me share!  :-)   
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Unraveling in order to Ravel....

3/16/2019

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Well I finally got all of the pieces together and was able to open my Ravelry store this weekend.  After (literally) years of contemplation, reservation and interference - the planets have aligned, I got my act together and .... TA DA! 
I have uploaded a few of my original designs to the store (a preview on the home page of the website), and still have a notebook full of scribbles to type up and pattern test (again). 
I hope you will stop by and browse.  Perhaps you'll see the thing you want to make next. :-)
I have notebooks full of ideas and previously made or started projects.  Now I have a reason to finish and share them.  
I'll be getting the ornaments up and available by summer.  There are over 8 designs already done and a few more in progress.  There are also a couple of unique snowflakes.
Thanks for all of the support.  Please stop by and **LIKE** Cozicrafts on Facebook. 
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