Weekly Ideas Post

[seryn]

It looks like everyone is in the same boat I am, where nothing I do feels creative. Even the food I have made this week has been the same kinds of dishes I always make. Seriously, the sum of my creativity for the week was adding a rubber stamp to a thank you card.

With that in mind, I think we should all challenge ourselves to come up with a creative project. What would you like to make or build? What questions do you have? Are there design issues you would like to address through discussion or do you tend to "wing it"? Feel free to make a whole post or to comment here (which I plan to do).

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Comments

[reishka]

I'll get around to posting about the flowers eventually... Probably the next time I get around to attempting them. The last time I tried I just tossed them all because they ended up unsalvageable!

I'm pretty adept at making the flowers themselvs without any sort of glue, but they're fussy. The new method I've been trying is supposedly easier, but so far I've had no luck. :)

I did head out to Target and got a cute little tower-storage-cubby-thing to hold some of my crafts-in-progress instead of having them strewn about the living room or taking them back and forth... we'll see how it goes.

[seryn]

Just recently I've personally experienced how "easier" needed to have a caveat about people being different. I found the "easier" method to be frustrating and impossible.

I had purchased my dishpans so I could wash skeins of newly spun yarn without cleaning my kitchen sink. But they work really well for holding whole projects. I have a closed bin for projects that have gone into a longer idle phase. I'm supposed to be limiting my projects to the number of dishpans. Ha. Instead I go in a completely different direction. "If I can't start spinning a new yarn, I'll take the chair apart instead!"

[undyedyarnpire]

I had so many problems with the "easier" method of warping my rigid heddle loom that I re-invented the old method.

You have my sympathy on your flowers.