Martianknits

August has been a month of rest for me. We spent a week at a lovely cottage with nothing to do but relax. I lie. I finished off my Santa and the Man in the Moon rug. Completely. The binding is on the back and it is now rolled up for its appearance at Xmas time. And completely finished Kessie's Rug. Otherwise I read a book (11/22/63 by Stephen King) and swam and kayaked and put my feet up. Since being back home  I have done little in the making end of things.  I am going through the absorb phase of my creative process.  I always feel guilty for a bit that I am just trolling Pintrest or reading  (My Cross to Bear by Greg Allman) or dreaming but it is a stage that i need to go through. I did do punch hook  "sketch" though.  I looked at several Pinterest pics of fields in winter and then went and "sketched" my impression of what I had been looking at. Winter Field I am pretty happy with it so it will go up for sale on Etsy once all the fin...

Practise. Practise is hard . Practise is a large part of being creative. It usually doesn’t feel like practise because it is the path towards a creation. A knitter knits. A musicians plays. A writer writes. Creators are drawn to create. Yet I feel that there are parts of practise that all creators find hard to do and I think it is the parts of their craft that is difficult for them. I am sure that everybody has something that they want to be good at but they avoid because they are  not perfect at it. What is it for you? That thing for me is sketching. I am never happy with how an image in my brain turns out on paper.  Because of that I rarely sketch. That is counter intuitive to what I need to do. I need to accept my  imperfect sketching and work on it but it is so hard to put self-judgement aside. Why? How does one move on past the practise issues that disrupt creative flow? For me it comes down to scheduling practise. And then bei...