{"id":10530,"date":"2013-09-12T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:52:38","slug":"commissions-review-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/commissions-review-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissions Review: 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve now been running my commissions model<\/a> for 18 months. Thanks to your pledges, I’ve designed 10 lovely new animal patterns so far:<\/p>\n

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…and everything’s going swimmingly! Or, it would be, if I hadn’t unexpectedly been offered a crochet book deal I couldn’t refuse, a couple of months ago…<\/p>\n

My process, whether for writing a new book or developing a new design, is always thorough and meticulous. Everything I do goes through research, planning, testing, refining and editing until I’m satisfied that it’s exactly the way I want it to be, and the best end product I can create. That’s just how I work – it’s time-intensive, and there’s nothing I can do to change that. And while, in an ideal world, I’d take a year or longer to write my book in leisure while continuing PlanetJune business as usual, the reality is that the book has to be completed before the end of 2013.<\/p>\n

I can’t not<\/strong> put my best effort into this book (just as I can’t not put my best effort into anything else I do), so I’ve made the difficult decision to suspend the commissions process until January 2014<\/strong>. If you’re paying for a commissioned design, you want 100% June effort going into that design, not whatever dregs of energy I can muster in rare moments when I’m not concentrating on the book! And dregs are all I could offer for the remainder of this year. I’m not willing to do that, and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want me to either…<\/p>\n

The Plan<\/h2>\n