© Kathy Cadigan
It’s odd not being utterly overwhelmed with the California Revival Knits book right now. Not that there’s not book stuff going on — there’s a lot of book-related things on which I’m working, but it’s all things like setting up a blog tour, working on my webpage, and so on.
All the patterns are up on Ravelry: you can see them here. The Wrought Cardi, Peacock Cowl & Wrought Mitts are the most popular. (That’s the Peacock Cowl on the left, modeled by Kathy’s beautiful daughter Morgan.)
The Wrought Mitts will be the first KAL; in fact, if you download the preview pdf, you’ll find a discount code for preordering the book.
But for the past couple weeks I’ve actually been able to work on other designs as well.
I’m working on a small collection of three patterns for the Malabrigo Freelance Patterns Project (MFPP). Malabrigo partners with indie designers to produce monthly ebooks; I’m Sept 2012. I can’t say a lot about it, but I do have some luscious Worsted, Rios and Sock to play with. One pattern is nearly done & will be up for testing in the next couple weeks, and I’ve been swatching for the second.
In case you were wondering…yes, there will be a book two, with a different theme/inspiration, but with the same sort of mix of techniques and patterns. I’ve started the cardigan from it. I’m not going to rush as much with this book — I want to be able to do other designs concurrently — so my goal on this is Spring 2013.
I have plans for one other small collection — probably only 3 or 4 patterns — that I may release both individually and as an ebook, timeline next 4-8 months.
I’m also going to submit some ideas to other publications.
Busy! but it’s invigorating to be working on new designs. And I hope to have more that I can share, instead of just hints of super-secret projects.