{"id":1529,"date":"2013-11-25T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2014-03-06T23:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T23:09:34","slug":"interview-with-jessica-k-larson-of-goosebear-knits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/interview-with-jessica-k-larson-of-goosebear-knits\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Jessica K. Larson of GooseBear Knits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica may be found on Ravelry as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/people\/omarsyarn\">omarsyarn<\/a> and on her Ravelry Discussion Group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/goosebear-knits\">GooseBear Knits<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is your design process?<\/p>\n<p>My design process generally starts with an idea, a ball of yarn and some<br \/>\nneedles.\u00a0 I typically let the design evolve organically from there.<\/p>\n<p>When I designed my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lakewood\">Lakewood shawl<\/a>, my idea was &#8220;a top-down, triangular<br \/>\nshawl with cables&#8221;.\u00a0 I took this idea, a ball of yarn, some needles on the<br \/>\nplane with me during a business trip.\u00a0 The resulting items was a shawl, but<br \/>\nthe top-down, triangular and cables got thrown out along the way.\u00a0 Some day<br \/>\na\u00a0 top-down, triangular shawl with cables\u00a0 might turn up in my pattern<br \/>\nstore.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1532\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1532\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eagleswingscoop.org\/christineguestdesigns\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lakewood-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What influences your style?<\/p>\n<p>My style is influenced by the things and people around me&#8230;nature,<br \/>\narchitecture, shapes, and people.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This year for gift knitting, I asked my family members to tell me what<br \/>\ntype of item they wanted, along with a few desirable attributes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeen a fun way to get them involved in my design process.\u00a0 This is how is<br \/>\nmy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/drexmore\">Drexmore hat pattern<\/a> came to life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1533\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eagleswingscoop.org\/christineguestdesigns\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Drexmore_Hat-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Drexmore_Hat\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What about designing and producing patterns are you most adept at, what<br \/>\nparts are you most fond of, and what parts are challenging? (Pattern<br \/>\nGrading, the last week of editing, coming up with a name for a project,<br \/>\nself promotion?)<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the process is when a new design evolves.\u00a0 It gives me<br \/>\na sense of accomplishment that can be hard to come by in my day job.\u00a0 I<br \/>\nalso really enjoy working with test knitters.\u00a0 I run tests in my Ravelry<br \/>\ngroup (GooseBear Knits) and am really lucky to work with some fabulous<br \/>\ntesters.\u00a0 They do a good job of keeping me in line.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up with names and photography are the two aspects I find the most<br \/>\nchallenging.\u00a0 I know we can&#8217;t all be Jared Flood, but I wish it was a<br \/>\nlittle bit easier \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You as a Giftalong designer:<br \/>\nWhere you surprised at how big the giftalong became?<\/p>\n<p>Yes and no.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I was surprised by how we went from cool idea to big huge Ravelry event<br \/>\nin a mere week.\u00a0 The organizing crew was incredible and accomplished way<br \/>\nmore than i was expecting:\u00a0\u00a0 fun games, advertising graphics, ginormous<br \/>\npile of prizes, unbelievable pinterest boards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised by the number and enthusiasm of the participants.<br \/>\nKAL\/CALs are very popular and who doesn&#8217;t need a little help getting their<br \/>\nholiday knitting list under control!?\u00a0 The big sale didn&#8217;t hurt either \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Where you skeptical of the \u201cabundance\u201d ideas, or did they seem just right?<\/p>\n<p>For me, they seemed just right.\u00a0 The veteran designers in this group have<br \/>\nalways been incredibly willing to help out newer designers in their field.<br \/>\nIt felt right to join forces with them and my fellow newbie designers.<\/p>\n<p>What have you learned from the promotion?<\/p>\n<p>The indie designers I&#8217;ve joined forces with are incredible people as well<br \/>\nas talented designers and supportive mentors. I just can&#8217;t say enough about<br \/>\nall of them.\u00a0 I can honestly say that this group of people has restored my<br \/>\nfaith in humanity&#8217;s ability to work together for the common good.<\/p>\n<p>Some less profound things I&#8217;ve learned:<br \/>\nPinterest can be used for marketing, how to use twitter, Pixlr is<br \/>\nfantastic, who to ask for graphics help, who to ask when I have questions<br \/>\nabout all things cotton,\u00a0 I need to learn how to use google docs, Google<br \/>\nforms?! &#8211; need to learn those too, there are crocheted designs out there I<br \/>\nwant to make &#8212; something else to learn how to do.<\/p>\n<p>You as someone who likes to make things questions:<br \/>\nWhat is your usual process on a fiber project, for instance, do you start<br \/>\nwith a yarn, a cute pattern, a need you\u2019ve noticed, something exciting you<br \/>\nsaw in a movie you want to copy, or a technique you want to learn \u2013 then<br \/>\nwhat do you do next and then what?<\/p>\n<p>Every project is a little different&#8230;there&#8217;s no shortage of<br \/>\nexcuses\/reasons to start a new project!\u00a0 New yarn, old yarn jumping off the<br \/>\nshelf at me, new technique, old technique that needs perfecting, new design<br \/>\nidea in my head, new twist on and old design idea in my head that wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\nquite right the first time, a new baby is on the way, my grandma&#8217;s birthday<br \/>\nis around the corner&#8230;you get the idea \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Does anything intimidate you in knitting or crochet?<\/p>\n<p>Steeking!\u00a0 Need I say more?<\/p>\n<p>When you want to learn something, do you look it up in a book, on U-tube,<br \/>\nor seek a real person to teach you?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m impatient, when I want to learn, I want to learn it now.\u00a0 Google is my<br \/>\nbest friend.<\/p>\n<p>Any repetitive motion disorders due to knitting or crochet? How do you deal<br \/>\nwith them?<\/p>\n<p>My repetitive motion issues are due to computer use at work. Giving up my<br \/>\npaycheck doesn&#8217;t seem like a practical solution&#8230; My cats go ballistic<br \/>\nwhen they see the bottom of the food bowl. One of them even pushes the food<br \/>\nall to the sides until the bottom of the bowl is visible, then comes<br \/>\ncrying to mommy because he&#8217;s starving!\u00a0 Any belt tightening at our house<br \/>\nwould not be without serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was doing so much computer work, I had to put my knitting aside for<br \/>\n4 months.\u00a0 I took up pottery as a substitute.\u00a0 I really enjoyed it, but<br \/>\nsomething about wet hunks of clay and a bulky potter&#8217;s wheel made it a bit<br \/>\nless portable that a lace shawl project.<\/p>\n<p>Do you frequent a particular yarn store?<\/p>\n<p>YES! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivercolors.com\/\">River Colors Studio in Lakewood, Ohio<\/a>. It&#8217;s practically my second<br \/>\nhome.\u00a0 When life cooperates, I can be found there three days a week.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s only because we haven&#8217;t convinced the shop owner to stay open late<br \/>\nmore than one weeknight.\u00a0 That&#8217;s OK though because she is extremely<br \/>\nsupportive of me as a local designer.<\/p>\n<p>People are always welcome to sit an knit at one of the project tables any<br \/>\ntime.\u00a0 I like to sit there and enable customers into buying more yarn than<br \/>\nthey had planned..hee hee.<\/p>\n<p>The yarn selection is fabulous&#8230;there&#8217;s even a Malabrigo room! Yes &#8211; a<br \/>\nwhole room for Malabrigo, but when a new shipment comes in, the room is<br \/>\nusually too small.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, I seem to have been side-tracked by Malabrigo&#8230;that shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nsurprise anyone who knows me.<\/p>\n<p>Do you usually finish things? If not, does it bother you?<\/p>\n<p>I usually finish things&#8230;it may take a few years.\u00a0 Sweaters are probably<br \/>\nmy biggest downfall.\u00a0 It&#8217;s those stinkin&#8217; sleeves.\u00a0 I think vests are my<br \/>\nnew favorite garment!<\/p>\n<p>If I stumble across a UFO and can&#8217;t remember why I was originally excited<br \/>\nby it, then I probably didn&#8217;t do a good job of listening to the yarn when<br \/>\nit told me what it wanted to be.\u00a0 I frog and promise the yarn I&#8217;ll listen<br \/>\nbetter the next time.\u00a0 Sometimes the yarn has to smack me in the head a few<br \/>\ntimes before I really do listen though.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get to do any \u201cselfish knitting?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I self-publish my designs, which gives me the flexibility to design around<br \/>\nmy day job.\u00a0 It also allows me to knit what I want to knit.\u00a0 Most of the<br \/>\ntime, that means stuff for me and sometimes it means a gift for my<br \/>\nknit-worthy friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>When I wanted to make myself a skirt with some sort of cable around the<br \/>\nbottom, I was surprised that I couldn&#8217;t find any patterns in the<br \/>\nRavelry database.\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/rosendale-skirt\">Rosendale pattern<\/a> filled that hole and I got a<br \/>\nfabulous new skirt \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christineguestdesigns.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=1534\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1534\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eagleswingscoop.org\/christineguestdesigns\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Rosendale-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rosendale\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is knitting a seasonal activity for you?<\/p>\n<p>Only if &#8220;every waking moment of free time&#8221; can be called a season \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 On<br \/>\nthe rare occasion when life gets in the way of my knitting, my husband<br \/>\nresorts to an intervention by day three.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not pretty!<\/p>\n<p>What makes you buy a pattern (lovely photo, the story of the project, it<br \/>\nlooks do-able, it looks slightly challenging\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an engineer, so the way I interact with the world is by looking at<br \/>\nthings and asking &#8220;How does that work?&#8221;.\u00a0 The patterns I&#8217;m most likely to<br \/>\nbuy are the ones that have me asking that question and not finding an<br \/>\nanswer.<\/p>\n<p>What gives you the feeling that you got your money\u2019s worth out of a pattern?<\/p>\n<p>If a pattern allows me to make something I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to do on<br \/>\nmy own, it&#8217;s worth it.\u00a0 Sometimes I&#8217;ll buy just to get a feel for how other<br \/>\ndesigners write patterns. In this case, I&#8217;ve learned something, so I got my<br \/>\nmoney&#8217;s worth, even if I never get around to knitting the item.<\/p>\n<p>What do you most enjoy about knitting or crochet?<\/p>\n<p>It keeps me sane&#8230;we&#8217;ll, if you don&#8217;t count my yarn obsession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica may be found on Ravelry as omarsyarn and on her Ravelry Discussion Group GooseBear Knits What is your design process? My design process generally starts with an idea, a ball of yarn and some needles.\u00a0 I typically let the design evolve organically from there. 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