#pattern hoarder

[iwillbealwaysadreamer]

Me, on Ravelry, browsing through knitting patterns: ooh, that's nice, I'll add it to my favourites so I can find it again in future... Ooh, and that one too...

My Ravelry favourites list: *is already so long I'll never, ever find anything on it ever again*

[shadoedseptmbr]

Snarling darling Sebastian is a popular lad today, gracious.  *stares at notes popping up all over*

Ended up spending the day at the knit shop listening to the chitchat.  It was actually sort of fun, though I don't think I'm going to make it a regular thing.  I almost bought another book of patterns that I do not need but gosh they were pretty.  

[chguise]

I realized something quite interesting this morning and something I should have figured out sooner.  Since I started writing years ago the consensus about learning to write is the aspiring writer must read.  Read, read, read.  Read what you like; read what you don't like; read the spectrum.  Though reading does not make a writer, it does make a writer better.

Now you ask, what is this thing you realized?  Well, I realized that following patterns others have written will allow me to eventually write patterns of my own, should I choose that direction.  Good ones or bad ones, they all teach and they all serve a purpose in forming skill sets.  So my collection of patterns is like my collection of books - just another way to build my toolbox into something spectacular. 

How's that for excusing my pattern hoarding?