Dear Designer

Dear Designer,

Your cleverness and wonderful sense of style is evident with each pattern you release and place on Ravelry for all to admire. However, they demand immediate knitterly attention, which has been having a serious impact on my relationships, housework, sleep and wallet. There’s only so much knitting time in a single day. If you continue to feed my habit, I will be forced to stop sleeping, and maybe even have to quit my job. So, please Dear Designer, please! For the sake of those around me, stop designing for the next 9 – 12 months. If you do not slow down your Designer Momentum, how can I possibly maintain a loving relationship with my husband? He seriously resents your successful efforts to ensnare my attentions. And my friends? While they appreciate those pretty socks made for them from your collection, they tell me that it’s no fun talking to the socks, and they would prefer to meet up instead of receive knitwear.

Here’s what you should do Dear Designer. Release one pattern at a time. Slowly. After the length of time deemed appropriate for your fans to slot your delightful design into their knitting itineraries and whip it out, release your next delight. Which I, and many others, will most certainly covet. Just so you know, I am not just thinking of myself with respect to this issue. This would also give you time to work on all of those things in your queue. Or at least it will give you the opportunity catch up on things you clearly neglect in order to design the knits that have captured my soul.

With love and affection always,
Gale