Pivot: Allowing Ideas to Rise to the Top

“When life takes a turn and throws you a loop, sometimes you just have to react and go with the flow! This project I’ve been working on for the last couple months - designing a twelve month blanket to coincide for the Jimmy Beans Wool “Blanket Club” with Urth Yarns Monokrom Worsted, including some EXCLUSIVE colorways, hit a turning point when I realized that it just wasn’t right for the format.

OH RATS!

So, as you do in life, you pivot… you change direction and move forward.

While I still LOVE the previous idea and will come back to it later on, my new plans for the CLUB are more in line with expectations AND really a great exploration into some areas of knitting that I have not played with for a while. What is interesting to me, is that while I regret stopping the last process and putting a design I admire aside, I am also loving the new idea. The design looks great and I think it fulfills the need & will match expectations of club members participating in Jimmy Beans Wool’s Blanket Club 2022.

The JBW exclusive is available here:
https://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/JimmyBeansWool/2022UrthYarnsBlanketClub.asp?showLarge=true&specPCVID=104539

I will regain rights for this pattern in 2023 and it will be available here and on Ravelry at that time. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/urth-strata

Maybe the lesson, if we want to look for one, is that compromise (or a pivot, or a change) can be hard and feel bad at first; while in the long run feeling better and better as we progress into it.

My bonus, NOW, is that I have 2 great ideas in the works, instead of only one.”

…time passes… a few months in fact…

I started this blog post when I was STUCK trying to make the BLANKET CLUB better… then I promptly forgot about it. Is it IRONIC that I have now completed BOTH ideas into finished projects and patterns? I’m not sure. But, I am very happy to say that both of these pieces are stunning and exciting. Both of these pieces are completely different.

The second one will launch SOON, both here and on Ravelry. It’s called Quinn’s Quilt and I am working on a matching pillow (pillow cover/ pillowcase) Quinn’s Pillow. That was the original idea in this post. I am not sure which one I like better as they are both so different. These Quinn projects both will launch later this month. The Quilt in conjunction with a new (domestically sourced and produced) yarn with a great story from Jimmy Bean’s Wool. The pillow using another domestically grown and produced yarn from Morehouse Merino.

I feel like I WON in this round of rampant ideas … even though they were not linear to what I needed.