My mom says I’m burning myself out and that I should stop testing as many patterns but I don’t want to disappoint the people I promised I’d test for.
I’m really sorry if I’m one of your testers. I feel really bad about this because I’m letting you down
. Both the Halloween patterns give me enough time to finish without stressing myself out more. I just didn’t take into account school starting and my family getting sick. If you look at my makes I am able to get things done and most of the projects were being worked on at the same time, but that was during the summer and now school has started.
you don’t need to worry about finishing ny test if it’s too much for you, i know back to school knocked out a bunch of us for testing, myself included. so don’t worry about it, if you finish it, great! and if not, it’s not a big deal at all <3
Thanks so much I still really want to try to finish it for you. It is such a cute pattern and I already have both feet done
aw i appreciate it, but if something important happens, don’t worry about it, honestly!
Thank you so much!! I’m really trying to be better about managing my time.
i definitely get that, i can’t make anything for me right now cause i jave like 6 orders to make 
I understand that kids at school really want me to make them things. I’ve got to go to bed now but thank you so much and have a nice night/day
you have a lovely evening as well <3
I work at a school and had to back off as well which was disappointing. Then I messed up my wrist at work and it is finally starting to heal. I felt horrible having to back out of 2 tests because I could not crochet because of it.
People will understand, school is important and we all want to avoid burnout. Make sure you message them and tell them the situation. Usually people just get upset when they are given no notice and are ghosted.
As a designer all anyone wants is honest communication. Life happens for everyone, just choose the one or two you can manage with ease and message the other designers asap and let them know you can’t do them. Must people will just be grateful you were up front and let them know in advance if the deadline. The worst is being ghosted by testers so don’t worry. That way you get stress relief and they have time to recruit more testers or adjust their launch plan. If you get a hard time then you don’t want to test for them anyway. And I would suggest do one test finish it, pick another as a way forward . That way you won’t get overwhelmed. There’s always cool patterns to test on here… you won’t miss out on great patterns and testing ops by allowing b down a bit. Lookn after yourself and good luck x
Deb @Hookanory
You got this!! If you can’t finish, DON’T ABORT WITHOUT TELLING THE DESIGNER. I’m sure they’ll understand, just explain the problem to them
