Today’s task? Completing the holiday goodies I’ve been working on. There’s something that’s just not quite working for me that I can’t put my finger on, so it’s time to just sit down with hook and thread and doodle until it *does* work.
You should have seen the expression on my face when the husband mentioned that Thanksgiving is next week. NEXT WEEK? How the hell did THAT happen? For the love of love, where does the time go?
My experiment with what Laurie calls “those dangerous pointy sticks” (:D) is going fine. Of course, even *I* can’t screw up a log cabin square in a nice, sturdy acrylic. LOL. Seriously, it’s a freeing thing for me to discover that I can knit even minimally. I struggled trying to learn it as a kid and I feel all accomplished now.
One of the things that I’ve found interesting about this experimental bicraftuality is the way that the contrast with knitting has made me more aware and appreciative of crochet’s unique properties. I’d love to give you an example but it’s more an overall feeling than a direct observation. I’m having a tough time summing it up.
I’m a little weirded out by the way I find myself regarding this as art; I haven’t really shared some of the things I’ve been experimenting with, because (being experiments) progress is slow and I want to find my own way for the moment. It’s a weirdly solitary thing, even as I get drawn deeper into the online crochet universe. (Can I say how freaking wonderful it is to be able to be among people who do this? Even when I lurk I feel more like the quiet one in a gathering of friends than an outsider looking in.) But in addition to my love for the sorts of useful little things that mostly populate my etsy shop, I’m developing a love of the less-directly-useful-but-insanely-beautiful, more-traditionally-art-like stuff, which surprises the hell out of me, quite frankly.
Just goes to show you never can tell where life’ll lead ya. 😉
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