Simple ways to make daily creating easier
Here’s some easy ways to get back into your creative making in the small moments of time. Let’s all make and create more!
how to create a daily stitching practice
When you’re feeling like you’ve lost your making mojo, starting a project can be hard but satisfying. 100 day project is a great idea, but here’s some tips for starting smaller and turning routine into ritual
finishing projects & deciding what’s not worth finishing
I’m working through my WIPS, my UFOs and the emotions of the finishing vs not finishing things. I always save every little scrap of fabric and half-made thing just in case I ‘need’ it again. Throwing things away that could become something is hard.
to weave the intricate tapestry of one’s life
“To weave the intricate tapestry of one’s own life, it is well to take a thread from many harmonious skeins - and to realise that there must be harmony. Not necessary to grow the sheep, comb the wool, colour and brand it - but joyfully take all that is ready, and with that saved time, go a great way further”.
The daily shifts we barely notice
In my garden the sun is changing it's shifting light. We live under a mountain (well a sort of hill with lots of tall rainforest trees), which means that in Winter our sunshine comes later in the morning and leaves earlier in the afternoon. We become a little like hibernating animals, snuggled by the fire and scuttling about the garden seeking patches of sun.