Alright, it’s not complete yet, but my lace crochet project is coming along… Slowly. I’ve missed stitches and frogged. I’ve added too many stitches and frogged again. And I’m sure there are mistakes in there I haven’t caught yet but will notice later. But it sure is pretty, isn’t it? The pattern I’m following called…
Apparently, according to all the cool people, lace is all the rage these days! Did you know? All I know is that I’ve never crocheted lace before and so am giving it a go as part of the Stitchwell Social Club’s make along challenge this month. I also know that I’ve never learned how to…
I have a confession to make: I have been unmotivated to make making a priority. I want to want to do things, but recently I just haven’t. I’ve not been sad or stressed or too darn busy, I’ve just been choosing to do other things that don’t involve active creativity… Like reading… Or playing Block…
In an attempt at breaking out of some of the creative boxes I’ve allowed to be built around myself (either willfully or by default), I’ve decided to sign up for a few self-led art classes. The first class, called Illustrated Life Journal: A Daily Mindful Practice is described as follows: What if you could improve…
I have the faintest memories of learning a few embroidery stitches in my youth. I don’t remember who I learned them from, but I think it may have been my grandma… or my Girl Scout Troop Leader… or maybe it was my mom? Regardless, it’s been decades, so when I added “learn to embroider” to…
Is there anything quite like the excitement of beginning a new project? Of being inspired, starting fresh, and diving in? Then, there’s the tangible, visible progress of each project that greases the wheel and keeps us going! Sometimes there’s backtracking that has to be endured like ripping stitches, erasing lines, replacing collage pieces, redesigning a…
