Must take a moment to do some bragging about
Paola's greatness, especially with regard to communication and excellence in pattern writing and publishing. I've emailed her twice to ask questions about patterns, once before and once after buying my patterns and both times she has responded to me kindly and especially quickly, within a few hours, I think. I ordered my patterns on Christmas day and they were in my inbox within just a few hours. Accounting for the holiday I would not have been surprised if they'd been delayed a day or two; if I have a holiday it seems like everyone should! I am very impressed by the clarity of the instructions, the abundance of project photos in progress and at different angles, and also the ease with which it is all conveyed. The pdf may be 15 or 20 pages, but I feel the photos tell me a lot that words don't and at times they reveal details about placement and shaping and other concerns that are easily overlooked in other designers' patterns. I don't think I'm explaining well.
Holy cow! I just discovered that in the pattern I'm working there's a link to a
video tutorial demonstrating how to make the loop stitch AND I think she is using a more movement economical way of rewrapping the yarn in the opposite direction. Otherwise, it was easy enough to learn this stitch just following along with the photo tutorial in the pattern.
BTW, I have memorized the lyrics to the Llama llama duck song. It amuses me for reasons I can't or shouldn't explain. If I understand correctly, the "Not a llama" image displays an alpaca, which looks a lot like a llama, but doesn't have the llama's banana ears. (You can see what I mean in the next post. Wasn't planning on it, but occasionally my thoughts fall into linear arrangements.) That's my conclusion because I've been browsing so very many llama photo rich websites to observe colors and patterns and plan future llama llama projects. At some point I read that the ears were a major distinguishing feature.
