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

[seryn]

I have the same table problems (though I do have a separate desk and no official homework). I keep small projects in dishpans so I can swap between them and errant items are easy to toss back in. But the biggest improvement was realizing we'd much rather eat in front of the TV with our feet on the coffee table. Heh. Totally not a viable solution for most people.

You know that you might find people who have done those flowers if you posted about them. Especially if you could show a picture of the common failure types. It seems like the kind of thing that would be helped distributed experience--- people providing pointers. I was kind of surprised that one could possibly make fabric flowers without a glue gun, so I'm clearly not the right person!

Good luck with the quilting.

I had to look up bread cover and Katamari Damacy. But that would be awesomely cool if it turned out!

[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.