This post could be subtitled, Adventures In Hypocrisy.  I've been thinking about releasing this pattern and then releasing subsequent upgrades as I get feedback from you, and I thought, "Hey, why not do a beta release?"

Well, you should hear what I've said about websites that open up in beta and make the users catch all their bugs.  That rant is just about as vociferous as my rant, circa 2001, about how retarded people-who-blog are.  Ha!

I am so totally a hypocrite*.  Totally.

I don't plan on releasing a buggy crochet pattern, though.  I just know that once I start letting you download it, that I'll get a ton of great feedback that is going to prompt me to add all sorts of great tips and hints that I didn't think to add the first time.

But before I can even make the beta release available, I want to have a closed alpha release where a handful of you test my pattern and give me feedback.  Alpha testers need to be able to crochet a handbag, and email me their questions and feedback within the next three weeks.  Interested?  Leave a comment!  The first five commenter-volunteers will be emailed the pattern.

And don't feel like you need to volunteer just to get a free copy of the pattern, because I plan on adding the pattern to my free downloads page.  Everyone is going to get a copy!  That makes up for me being a stinky hypocrite, right?

* There isn't a whole lot in the world that makes me as red hot angry as a hypocrite, which is pretty funny when I think about how often I, myself, am a hypocrite.  I'm even a hypocrite about being a hypocrite.  How ridiculous is that?!