Writing a Book—a Personal Experience. What’s new

First, I’ve added “My Book” to main menu and set up the categories to keep the posts organized:

• Helpful Links (whatever links I’ll find helpful or worth remembering related to the subject)
• Entering (referring to my first venture in book publishing)
• Writing a Book (everything related to writing a book: crochet patterns, charts, title, cover copy, etc.) 
• Publishing a Book (figuring out the different publishing activities and concerns and writing about my publishing experience)

On top of that I can proudly report a bit of progress: I’ve solved my old tough problem – find a professional crochet charts software. Once I realized that this software should be vector based then it was obvious that I was looking for a subset of Adobe Illustrator’s functionality (or Corel Draw or Inkscape (free one) or similar vector graphics application). So the name of “professional crochet symbols software” is Adobe Illustrator and I really have no idea why it took me so long to figure it out and I’ve spent hours to draw my charts (just don’t ask me which application I’ve used before LOL). And once you pass first learning bumps and got comfortable with Ai tools – it really takes minutes to draw the charts like these ones.

Seriously. It took me less than 2 days to watch video lessons and create my own library of crochet symbols. I’ll post great helpful links and tips how to get started late this week.

And to celebrate this “outstanding” event :о), I’ve turned this first flower chart into Dewdrop Flower Pin free pattern, which I’ll list just in few. Stay tuned.