I wanted to share this story the day that it happened, but couldn’t, because it would have given things away for Classic Elite, and they like their surprises. But now that the design is out, I can tell you about it.
I wrote the Newport design nearly ten months ago. By October, I had put the design out of my mind, and was working on other things. I got an email from Classic Elite; they needed me to resend my pattern and, by the way, here’s some of the pictures from the photoshoot for the sample.
The pictures, which you can see on Ravelry, or in the previous pictures in my blog, were stunning. I could hardly contain myself. I went to call my mother, after forwarding her the email (probably against the rules, as I’m not supposed to make public the details of my design until they publish it, but I thought my mother could be… mum. heh.) I’d forgotten that my mother and my two grandmothers had taken a trip that weekend TO Newport.
You can’t see it so clearly in any of the pictures used for Newport, but in Bondi, pictured at right, you can see some of the resort/hotels/condos that are typical of the Newport Beaches. While I didn’t know for certain, I mentioned to my mother and grandmothers that I *thought* they had done the photoshoot in Newport.
I should have known that was dangerous. Before I could say more, my grandmothers had declared that they were going to look and see if they could find the stretch of beach where the pictures were taken.
My poor mother knows not to protest when my grandmothers go off on a tear.
Me? I could hardly contain my laughter. Mostly because had I been with them, I would have been searching the beaches too.
