I so enjoy learning about your design process Kavitha. It's so interesting that you've found slowing down benefits your creativity in so many ways. I'm sure your test knitters are enjoying your Shirin Shawl pattern. Your Kayva Shawl speaks to my knitting heart :) Thanks so much for the shout out.
Thank you so much for your kindest words Jodie!. I am glad you are enjoying the design process bits. Thank you so much for letting me know. I was wondering how interesting this stuff is to someone else, you know?. :)
I love the reminder that creativity takes time. I can resist that reality as both a writer and a knitter.
Recently knitting has been reaching me to slow down and enjoy the process. To let things simply be as and where they are. It's been a way to practice patience creatively.
Knitting definitely is a practice of patience, as you put it. I am just beginning to see this with my writing. No point in pushing things around, they need their 'simmering time', I guess.
When the first whiff of Autumn comes my way do I dig through my WIP tubs and find some fun things to finish? Heck no! I start scrolling through Ravelry and Etsy and a few other spaces on the internet looking for new projects to start (I’ll be checking out your lovely designs as soon as I finish writing this comment). I do not look at my icloud or my Dropbox where the zillions of pattern I have purchased are stored. There’s just something about that crispness in the air that makes me itchy to knit something new.
Lol!! Absolutely. There is something so powerful and attractive about starting new. The finishing is great too. Just that no one wants the boring middle. :)) I started a sock last weekend, despite design WIPs and deadlines. 🙈 And thank you for your kind words about my patterns.
Kavitha, the Kavya shawl pattern is quietly dazzling -- the swirls of parallel lines in different directions, something very Art Deco about it!
I have learned to allow for at least one start-over when I take on a new pattern or cast on an ad-lib project (mine aren't advanced enough to be called designs) ... and it is educational, about yarn or stitch or gauge or simply how much attention I need to pay to a given pattern. Fortunately I hardly ever "knit to deadline," so unraveling several inches of work may make me wistful but rarely makes me frantic -- and by the time I know I need to do it, I'm excited to re-knit in a different (please, better!) way.
Well, I thought of Kavya as geometrical definitely, but I see what you mean by Art Deco - ish. :) Thank you so much for your kind comment. I absolutely agree - whether working from a pattern or designing from scratch, the first couple tries are purely 'educational' as you put it. We get to know a lot at this stage. Wow, I love your mindset about unraveling.
I so enjoy learning about your design process Kavitha. It's so interesting that you've found slowing down benefits your creativity in so many ways. I'm sure your test knitters are enjoying your Shirin Shawl pattern. Your Kayva Shawl speaks to my knitting heart :) Thanks so much for the shout out.
Thank you so much for your kindest words Jodie!. I am glad you are enjoying the design process bits. Thank you so much for letting me know. I was wondering how interesting this stuff is to someone else, you know?. :)
I love the reminder that creativity takes time. I can resist that reality as both a writer and a knitter.
Recently knitting has been reaching me to slow down and enjoy the process. To let things simply be as and where they are. It's been a way to practice patience creatively.
Knitting definitely is a practice of patience, as you put it. I am just beginning to see this with my writing. No point in pushing things around, they need their 'simmering time', I guess.
When the first whiff of Autumn comes my way do I dig through my WIP tubs and find some fun things to finish? Heck no! I start scrolling through Ravelry and Etsy and a few other spaces on the internet looking for new projects to start (I’ll be checking out your lovely designs as soon as I finish writing this comment). I do not look at my icloud or my Dropbox where the zillions of pattern I have purchased are stored. There’s just something about that crispness in the air that makes me itchy to knit something new.
Lol!! Absolutely. There is something so powerful and attractive about starting new. The finishing is great too. Just that no one wants the boring middle. :)) I started a sock last weekend, despite design WIPs and deadlines. 🙈 And thank you for your kind words about my patterns.
Kavitha, the Kavya shawl pattern is quietly dazzling -- the swirls of parallel lines in different directions, something very Art Deco about it!
I have learned to allow for at least one start-over when I take on a new pattern or cast on an ad-lib project (mine aren't advanced enough to be called designs) ... and it is educational, about yarn or stitch or gauge or simply how much attention I need to pay to a given pattern. Fortunately I hardly ever "knit to deadline," so unraveling several inches of work may make me wistful but rarely makes me frantic -- and by the time I know I need to do it, I'm excited to re-knit in a different (please, better!) way.
Well, I thought of Kavya as geometrical definitely, but I see what you mean by Art Deco - ish. :) Thank you so much for your kind comment. I absolutely agree - whether working from a pattern or designing from scratch, the first couple tries are purely 'educational' as you put it. We get to know a lot at this stage. Wow, I love your mindset about unraveling.