How to finish craft projects:
1. Wait for a rainy day.
2. Find some good binge t.v. show to watch (I watched and recommend The Bletchley Circle on Netflix. It’s a murder-mystery starring a group of women who met as WWII Code Breakers at Bletchley Park. A+ for character development and historical value!).
3. Make, make, make.
4. Take some pics.
The blanket isn’t done yet, but closer! The stripey circle pillow has been half done for over a year. Now it has a similar, but slightly different stripey pattern on the back and is all sewn up. It’s a little wonky, or should I say, wabi-sabi (the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection).
Embracing wabi-sabi is my m.o. these days. I have let go of trying to make things perfect. Small, spare, bent, broken, wonky–these are qualities to embrace. Even watching too much binge t.v. can be embraced occasionally.
I am hoping to give some homemade gifts this Christmas, but I’m a little stuck as to what to make for people. I’m hoping that I’ll get inspired by finishing up some of these other projects.
Are you doing handmade Holidays? What are you making for people?
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Awesome swarm of stitches. I crochet, too and it never occurred to me to use them this way – how clever of you!!
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Thank you!
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Wabi-sabi is now an integral part of my new philosophical approach to life — the intangible things, how I make choices — or is that also what it means? Is it an aesthetic or a philosophy? Thank you for sharing this! Your pillows are gorgeous! xo
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Thanks! Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic philosophy. Here’s a good article about it: http://www.wholeliving.com/133628/wabi-sabi-your-life-6-strategies-embracing-imperfection.
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superb !! you are so talented 🙂
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Thank you!
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I used to crochet a lot, but haven’t in a while. You are inspiring me! Do you have any quick easy patterns for crochet caps?
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Are you on revelry.com? It’s free and you can search there for an easy crochet hat pattern. I am not so good at following patterns myself. lol.
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it’s ravelry.com–sorry it was autocorrected on my phone:-)
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