The instructions for all my projects get checked, double-check, re-beaded, triple checked and even more as I hate the thought of getting something wrong and wasting any beaders time.

The project also gets beaded in different colours, sizes & shapes of beads, and even with beads from different manufacturers so I can check how it works (or doesn't work) with those.

In addition I check it myself with different needles & thread as that can make a huge difference... and then everything gets check and tested and re-beaded by someone else (or multiple people) to ensure it makes sense to others and that different people with different tensions and styles of beading can make the project too.

All of that takes time which is why projects often take many years from first idea to being released as it can't be rushed (which is why I no longer show works in progress in any photos on my blog or social media, too many times as I was going through this long process others copied my work and released their copy before I could).

The only projects which I generally fast track through that process are my Secret Beadalongs as they need to be released at exact times to give people enough time to buy the materials etc they need.

But this doesn't mean all of that testing & checking doesn't happen to them, it just means they jump the queue and get prioritised ahead of all the other things working along that pipeline (for example at the time of writing this I have 7 sets of instructions for patterns/ classes underway, at least 10 projects being actively beaded (and who knows how many waiting for me to get back to them), 2 sets of instructions undergoing testing/ editing and 3 projects having their videos made... and none of that includes anything from the 3 books I'm currently working on at the same time...).

Then I have to factor in my last minute panics about instructions before I send them out to students or launch them for sale etc., hence why today I'm sitting on the tube reading through instructions for an upcoming class for the umpteenth time before I bite the bullet and email them out.