Desigining On The Needles

I NEVER (okay -- rarely ever) design on the needles. It goes against my grain in so many ways. I am a PLANNER always have been a planner, planning is good. Predicting an outcome and then verifying the prediction seems so much more efficient as the "writing" work is already done! Also, although I will always rip out if required, I STRONGLY work to avoid that process whenever possible. All of this adds up to rarely designing on the needles. If I do feel the need to design with needles in hand, I usually work on a minature version of the idea -- no need to get too far ahead of myself.

So this past Friday Bev and I met to review quarterly finances and plan the Fall line. We each had several ideas to present and when all was done had worked up a concept together for a poncho done out of extra bulky yarn. So what do I do, cast on and start knitting!! How hard can a poncho be, right?!? Well, now I have a problem -- the edges are turning out straight instead of pointy!! So now I need to go back to paper, determine how much, if any, needs to be ripped out and actually create a design before knitting the thing. So much for designing on the needles!!