For the interior item I produced a seat pad for a kitchen chair using my sister-in-law as my client and using a tile in her kitchen as my inspiration starting point.
The apple on the tile is quite simple and I wanted to find a way of making the apple remain an apple but be more abstract. After some trial and error and art making and swatch knitting I came up with a mosaic stitch pattern with "apples" on the seat pad upper and then just "leaves" underneath.
To make it City and Guilds -worthy I decided to seam it together using I-cord and also have a buttoned opening underneath to get the cushion in and out.
It passed the assessment and made my sister-in-law's chair more comfortable. So that's a double tick.
When it comes to publishing it - I don't know that it's that "commercial" a pattern. I think it might be fun knit in some non-apple colours to make it even more abstract. Or maybe even just knit the leaf pattern?
I've rejigged the pattern layout a little and have had it tech reviewed and am now trying to find test knitters through Ravelry. I haven't had any success finding a test knitter so far, which I think confirms what I thought about its commerciability - but it's interesting to figure out the process of getting a pattern published. It's been a while since I did this module so I don't feel so personally attached to this as I maybe did straight after I'd finished it, so am happy to take my time and use this to figure out how things work. If I don't find a test knitter I'll probably publish it on Ravelry anyway to see how that side of things works.
