Category: Creative process
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A frogging we will go!
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Oh Harbinger of Autumn, how you vex me! I had such dreams of the perfection I would create only to have those visions smashed by the reality of my own shortcomings! I have been frogging and reworking and frogging and getting very frustrated. I think…
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A wrap takes form
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I continued the story but departed the text! No simple stripes! No neat fade! Nope. Not for me. I’m doing my own thing inspired by Paul Klee’s work entitled The Harbinger of Autumn. I like the different shades of purple and blue and the bright…
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Too much time to plan is a dangerous thing
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes I have to make a wrap and make it fast. Because I am a fussy little princess about yarn, I have to wait for the yarn to come in the mail, taking up precious time, so I’m planning while I wait. What I know is…
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The Met Gala!
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes I love watching the Met Gala! It is so much fun to see what people wear-from the fabulously fashionable to the fantastically fabulous. I watch every year and come away inspired and amused and happy. This year was no different. I loved the various interpretations…
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The Book of Circles: Inspiration in Graphs
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes Estimated creative inspiration: Incalculable I have a lot of crochet stitch dictionaries. I really like collecting them because they are fun to look at and very educational for me. What they are not, always, is inspirational. I can look through and think I would like…
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A counting we will go! 2 lazy daisy patterns with endless counting
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Sometimes, I run across a stitch pattern that seems beautiful but is, in fact, evil to work. Often this means I never touch it again, but sometimes it continues to run around in my brain, and I end up pulling it out again and again.…