Crocheting

So I haven't been posting the last couple of nights.  I needed to do something busy and creative in a different way.  I've been crocheting.  I've started a blanket for my bed, queen size, so it'll take awhile.  At this point, I've got about 7 inches done (queen length).

But, it's kind of tedious, so then I switched to making another one of my hats.  In my favorite pattern.  I should have enough of the yarn to make the matching fingerless gloves and a scarf.  AND I started a scarf for my niece.  It's in a fun, fuzzy, yarn.  I'm kind of all over the place right now.  

I also, finally, got to watch the last season of Downton Abbey.  Such a good show.

There's just too much going on in my head right now.  A friend the other day gave me some good advice. He said, "Don't just keep busy, live your life."  I'm working on that, but at least I'll have something to show for my downtime.

Never underestimate the power of making things.  No matter what it is you make. From fiber crafts, to drawing or sewing.  Maybe it's to create a world in my Animal Crossing 3DS game.  All of them make me feel better.

I Tried To Draw A Comic Strip...Once

For those of you that don't know, I fancy myself an artist at times.  Currently, most of my art consists of crocheted items, mostly hats and fingerless mitts.  I love it because it's faster than knitting and I am CREATING something.  Hats...I really like making hats, especially this pattern.

3rd version

Very 1st time

I was a graphic design then sculpture major before I just went for the Liberal Arts degree.  I love 2-D work best.  My profile pic for this blog is one of my designs for Red Riding Hood.  It was the final product created by cutting Color-aid paper with an X-acto knife and utilizing rubber cement to build the work.  My whole idea with the images were to create them only with basic shapes: square, circle, rectangle, triangle.  I wanted children to see them and once they realized only those shapes were used, they may feel like they, too, could create art.  So many times people are scared to try creating because they feel they need 'talent', but we can all make art.  It's as simple as putting a circle on a triangle and two rectangles to compose a girl in a hood. Here are a couple of images from the process before cutting began.

First sketch

How about a little color?

But one of my all time favorites was when I decided to try my hand at a comic strip.  I only finished three, but someday I hope to get back to Shoddy Odditors.  Enjoy!

True story.

ANOTHER true story.

Yeah, I'm wierd.

I'm writing this in advance of day 3...so no updates on eating or shopping.