You! Yes, you! The person wondering whether I'm talking to you. I AM!
Wait! Please! This is a matter of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE! Voting!
You know, the process where you make your voice heard? Your wishes known? I truly believe right now is the BEST time to be a crocheter, knitter or fiber artist! The Crochet Liberation Front's 2nd Annual Flamie Awards need to hear what YOU have to say!
I must say the entries are quite impressive and it took me a LONG time to make up my mind! I haven't been fortunate enough to have worked on a pattern from every entrant so I chose the ones that make me feel all verklempt. I wouldn't joke about something as amazing as fiber, yarn and threadwork. Seriously! Just looking at the work shown in reference to each nominee shows we are so lucky to have people who think out of the box.
(Like I said in my last post, I can't wait until my "creative side" kicks in!)
So, if you haven't voted, WHY NOT!?!
Head on over to the Crochet Liberation Front's website where you can make your choice today! Voting closes tomorrow, March 30, 2011, so you have a few hours! Even if you can only vote in a few categories, your input is important!
Then on April 18, 2011, in Georgetown, Texas, there will be LIVE Flamie Award ceremonies and YOU can attend! I've heard there will be goodies for those lucky enough to be there! If you, like me, cannot make the festivities, Mary Beth Temple from Getting Loopy will have it all live on her podcast!
My regards to all the nominees - you are most worthy of the admiration shown by the fiber arts community! I look forward to a long and fruitful relationship between your creativity and my yarncraft!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
In the beginning...
I was looking through some images on Google the other day and I realized I started crocheting when I was a child. I used to take metal hangers (no Mommy Dearest jokes here,) some yarn or cotton thread and sometimes a crochet hook and I would cover the hanger so my clothes wouldn't slip off the hanger. I am recalling a purple and white one I did - it may still be in my closet at my mom's! Kayren from Everything's Coming Up Daisies did this one that is much more festive than the ones I did, as I was usually relegated to a single color.
Sometimes I wouldn't even use a hook, just weave yarn on my fingers to make hammocks for my Barbie dolls. As I have found in raising my children and playing with my grandsons, humans seem to be much more creative when children!
Now that I am getting older (as opposed to being 6, or even 26,) I long for more creativity in my life. The ability to think of something original and make it in yarn (or draw it on paper or even sculpt it in cake!) To realize an original design would probably make me the happiest person on earth!
To realize I had an original THOUGHT would thrill me to no end, too! Wow - my life seems pretty pathetic when I read that. Let me give you an example of when this might come in handy.
It's frustrating to be stuck in a pattern, wondering aloud, "Is this right? It doesn't feel right..." I then go back to the row I'm on and almost sound the instructions out loud, as one might sound when they are asking someone who doesn't speak English, "WHERE IS THE BATHROOM?" When I get to the point I'm at and find I am doing okay and the pattern IS being followed I usually feel pretty inferior.
In that moment I lament my inability to free-form crochet. Maybe I could get to that point where I'm 'stuck in a pattern' and say, "This doesn't feel right, but that's cool - I'll just do this.... and that..... and.... HEY! This is nifty!" To be able to adapt something that isn't working would be freeing! Maybe it started as sleeve but I can close up the end and make a REALLY long mitten! Hey! An OPERA MITTEN! Well... it was a thought...
There must be something blocking that creative vein. I need to find the right explosive to blow away the obstruction. So I created a bomb. A literal yarn-bomb. The design was shamelessly taken from someone else but I am hoping this is the beginning of the unleashing my bottled-up creativity! Here is my version of Woowork's Yarn Bomb.
If you have any ideas on how to jump-start this part of my life, PLEASE leave me a comment! And I'll share my works-in-progress with you, my ideas and aspirations, and post some photos of things about which I'm proud or happy (and yes, this might include my grandsons!)
But now I need to start another Carnation Bouquet Afghan Square (shameless plug for The Crochet Dude, Drew Emborsky,) to go with this one:
Until next time, keep hooking and needling!
Sometimes I wouldn't even use a hook, just weave yarn on my fingers to make hammocks for my Barbie dolls. As I have found in raising my children and playing with my grandsons, humans seem to be much more creative when children!
Now that I am getting older (as opposed to being 6, or even 26,) I long for more creativity in my life. The ability to think of something original and make it in yarn (or draw it on paper or even sculpt it in cake!) To realize an original design would probably make me the happiest person on earth!
To realize I had an original THOUGHT would thrill me to no end, too! Wow - my life seems pretty pathetic when I read that. Let me give you an example of when this might come in handy.
It's frustrating to be stuck in a pattern, wondering aloud, "Is this right? It doesn't feel right..." I then go back to the row I'm on and almost sound the instructions out loud, as one might sound when they are asking someone who doesn't speak English, "WHERE IS THE BATHROOM?" When I get to the point I'm at and find I am doing okay and the pattern IS being followed I usually feel pretty inferior.
In that moment I lament my inability to free-form crochet. Maybe I could get to that point where I'm 'stuck in a pattern' and say, "This doesn't feel right, but that's cool - I'll just do this.... and that..... and.... HEY! This is nifty!" To be able to adapt something that isn't working would be freeing! Maybe it started as sleeve but I can close up the end and make a REALLY long mitten! Hey! An OPERA MITTEN! Well... it was a thought...
There must be something blocking that creative vein. I need to find the right explosive to blow away the obstruction. So I created a bomb. A literal yarn-bomb. The design was shamelessly taken from someone else but I am hoping this is the beginning of the unleashing my bottled-up creativity! Here is my version of Woowork's Yarn Bomb.
If you have any ideas on how to jump-start this part of my life, PLEASE leave me a comment! And I'll share my works-in-progress with you, my ideas and aspirations, and post some photos of things about which I'm proud or happy (and yes, this might include my grandsons!)
But now I need to start another Carnation Bouquet Afghan Square (shameless plug for The Crochet Dude, Drew Emborsky,) to go with this one:
Until next time, keep hooking and needling!
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