This week has been dedicated to writing the instructions for the magazine piece. This is a very labour intensive part of the process and usually involves a lot of frustration as diagrams are very hard to do. Whenever you use a pattern please do not underestimate quite how much work goes into the instructions. In these days of rampant copyright fraud sweeping the industry it's somewhat demoralising to put so much work into a piece to know that it stands a high chance of being stolen and distributed for free before you've had the chance to breathe. Designers are not rich, there is very little money in it and yes it's hard for everyone right now but how would you feel if you'd put in months of work and not got paid for it. Anyway, rant over - I've still got a lot of work to do on this set of instructions as it's a complex piece. I am distracted every now and then by my daughter's demands for a Victorian costume for school though.
The tidying/DIY has not happened this week - when I haven't been creating diagrams/instructions or costumes I've continued sewing on Crystal. It's starting to take shape now, there's still quite a lot to go though so I have to be disciplined and make sure that I get a bit done every night.
Oh well - it's progress of a kind
Vicki
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