‘wordless’ taken from 8:26 of romans.
(this post is part of an ongoing series,
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on
an indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
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cey & i: down, but not out
even with 2 pencils in play
there was so much tip breaking and wearing down points
that i eventually resorted to a trusty pen.
still, it went something like this:
*write, reconsider, scratch it out; rep from * until your very last nerve is frazzled.
then wait and
…hold on!
time for a time out.
i find a break almost always helps,
or at least it gives me the perspective to cut my losses and move on.
in this case, it gave me the ‘ah ha’ moment that i’d been missing.
whew.
that one was a little too close for comfort
but, all’s well now. on to the re-swatching and the actual casting on.
‘comfort’ taken from 16:5 in job.
(this post is part of an ongoing series
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on
an indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
cey & i: ‘bossy’ is misunderstood
“i’m the boss of my knitting”.
i am, although today the knitting doesn’t seem to know it.
working on the math for the first sweater in the collection.
using a lace stitch pattern
that repeats every 4″.
this is a designing challenge,
because if it’s not adjusted in some way
the only chest circumferences available would be
28 (36, 44, 52, 60) inches around.
not gonna work for way too many shapes and sizes of knittahs.
hence,
today
finds me
currently
hunkered
down
at this
little desk
in my little
workroom,
a #2 pencil
and
a back-up
at my side
(oh, how it annoys me to have to stop mid-way thru a math equation to sharpen a tip).
i’m hacking away at
my brainstormed
list of
possible solutions.
and one of them
is going to
work.
my new pin from
lys ‘in the loop’ is here on the desktop reminding me
that “i’m the boss of my knitting”.
take that you wiley lace stitches!
‘sharpen’ taken from 27:17 of proverbs.
(this is part of an ongoing series of posts
chronicling my collaboration with classic elite yarns on an
indie collection. all posts tagged with ‘artistic differences‘ and titled ‘cey & i‘.)
cey & i: of chairs and collections
this is the chair
beside susan’s desk
as creative director,
her space fills quickly
with color cards,
various mood boards,
swatches
and nearly endless
fresh design possibilities.
to begin something new,
one morning just over a week ago
this lemony vintage chair was filled with, well, me.
we talked of ideas and angles, palettes and themes, and of course, yarns.
by the time i had to drag myself away to get the kids off the bus,
we had finalized everything down to the color choices
(ie: all the colors warming the chair above)
for an indie collection of my new ideas
that cey and i are collaborating on.
i admit,
that as the stack of colors grew,
i began to feel a bit giddy with the excitement of it all.
to be given such freedom of choice and professional support
was moving to the creative side of me in a way that i find hard to describe.
what i can say clearly, is that the practical side of me went
right home and eagerly cast on for the first sweater.
‘clearly’ taken from 6:42 in luke.
(this is to be an ongoing series of posts
chronicling the process of this collaboration from swatches to release.
to search, all post titles will include ‘cey & i:‘ and be tagged with ‘artistic differences‘.)