I find that somehow social media makes it look like artisan endavours take 30 seconds to finish. When in reality its often hundreds of hours invested from the idea to the finished project.
Don’t misunderstand me I have no qualms about being a slow artisan or that many of my creative endeavours take months for completion. I really enjoy the process. The journey and discovery from idea to completion is just a satisfying as the finished product (If I like the end result anyway).
Lately I felt a bit pressured by social media to actually produce a “reasonable” amount of finished goods. As I said one many occasions, I am a slow mo and I am fine with t. I usually work on several different creative projects – several different mediums at one time- which slows me down even more. Add to that my perfectionist streak, which makes me undo huge amounts of work, when I do something wrong or feel it’s not good enough.
So for a minute I thought, maybe I should just do one craft or work on just one thing. But quickly dismissed that idea. I am not in production and frankly if I don’t pursue excellence in what I do, I won’t enjoy the end product anyway.
Most of my creative endeavours are often connected to learning skills or exploring an idea/inspiration. And as I said I really adore the journey. It’s a form of adventure, a way of exploring and researching- my two favourite things to do- mediums and skills. A way to pursue excellence in a skill or with a medium. I find it brings me calmness and these creative endeavours make me in fact a more inspired photographer and generally a more content person.
I want to somehow share the side of my creative endeavours, so I decided to post updates of my journey as a Wednesday theme here. I shall be posting weekly or every fortnight. Different ideas, inspirations, different mediums, mishaps, explorations.. whatever I am busy with. Basically just sharing about my creative space and different facets of it.
I am starting today with knitting. Currently on my needles will be a monthly post sharing some progress photos and talking about the knit or crochet projects I am busy with, problems I encounter while knitting, things I discover as I knit…a bit like a long version of #WIPWednesday.
At the moment I am busy with two knit projects:
- Inara
The first project is a sleeveless oversize vest-dress. To be exact I am hoping that it will be a dress. I got 14balls of the main yarn and I hope that it is enough to make it midi-length.
I named it Inara – which means sparkling light- because of the sequence stripes.
So far I am happy with how its shaping up, its quite girly for me and I am a little worried that maybe its a tad too oversized. So I am thinking of doing the collar ribbing and the blocking it to see if it fits and drapes the way I am anticipating. (For more details vistit my ravelry page)
- Damla
After finishing Zephyr I am kinda obsessed with stripes and Mohair. I still got left-over bits and pieces from Zephyr so I am making a stripe as you feel shawl. Knitting it single strand on 3.5mm.
I named it Damla which means drop in turkish. As this reminds me of reflections in dew drops. (For more details vistit my ravelry page)
What is currently on your needles?