I had a flash today of feeling like a real designer today. I was starting to type my pattern into the final format that it will be published in and it really started to sink in that this is real and I will have a published pattern soon!
Adding to the 'real deal' moment was last week, when my yarn support arrived. I had been waiting on this package, and when I finally got to open it and see what color the sample will be made in, it was awesome. A very cool feeling to have someone send you yarn to make a sample of your pattern.
I am really happy that soon all of the secrecy will be over and I can show the gazillion pictures I have of the various stages of this process.