creative reflections

Finishing up the 2nd of the pair Finished & so pretty! I worked on these socks for a very long time, getting frustrated at problem areas and putting them down, then steeling myself to work through them (with lots of help and encouragement), only to come to another halt.   I even started several other socks, encouraged by being able to start and get to a certain point without much difficulty.   I was super excited about finishing the first sock and determined to complete the second so I could wear them, and after much starting and stopping finally did complete the second.   Woot!   I was so excited, so happy, my second pair of socks finally completed, a pair for me !   And what a feeling of sweet success.   A goofy smile and good feelings burbled up.   Then I tried on the second sock only to find it wouldn’t fit--I couldn’t get my foot through a tight section on the turn of the sock, even though I had tried it on repeatedly while working on it.   I was stunned.

Picked up some light-weight red linen at some point.   It was a decent price and we like red.   Didn’t have a particular use for it, but sometimes you buy when you find and learn the use later.   So when the local Arts & Sciences evening was making Viking apron dresses to help teach some basic sewing and dress-making skills, some lonely red linen was just the thing.   Went to the A&S Night, cut the fabric, got the gist of what was needed, but then it sat and waited for a while—had to coax the fortitude to start.   Sure, I’d sewed on buttons, but making a dress, sewn all by hand, seemed a pretty big thing.   Still, start I did.   A long journey starts with one step.  Two friends who also didn’t have that much sewing experience started that night and we hoped to be finished by the end of the next A&S Night, and in time for an event.  No pressure.   I pinned it all around to be sure it fit and slipped it on c a r e f u l l y, pins and all (yup got stuck, but not too ba

Just off the loom.  Rotating this to make a bag. I have the amazing wealth of awesome people around me who are enablers.   I showed interest in weaving and weavers came out of the woodwork!   A marvelous weaver took me under her wing and started me weaving on a portable loom of hers.   I got excited about this new thing I could do and made my first real loom woven fabric.   I thought of things it could be and decided a bag would be great.   It’s been off the loom a while and not become the bag, partly because I’m not sure how to do it without ruining it and maybe partly because once it’s a bag it can’t be other things.   I WILL finish this bag.   In the meantime awesome weavers keep encouraging me.   One found a larger loom which it is now living in my living room.   Just need to get some warp on and start trying some things out…