Creativity

I am trying to take a look at my creative process with this blog. I find I am often very happy because I think happy thoughts about planning out my projects, things I want to see and do and make. I love to create while I’m working but I find I spend far more time sitting and thinking and planning than I do working. I have the drive to create and I really want to work on translating and transforming my ideas into tangible form.

This week I have started playing around with leaf patterns and stitching leaves for my idea of a cascade of fall colored leaves. I started out wanting to make a maple leaf shape but now I think I may move toward oak as I have an idea of stitching beaded acorn caps for beads. I may even work on a beaded bead to go under an acorn cap.

First Leaf

 I have been working on blue teardrops for some time, looking for ways to stitch a waterfall cascade as part of a bib style necklace. I just need to work out the asymmetric base of it. I am a symmetric kind of girl and I want to branch out and work on something asymmetric and yet balanced.

I have also been working on simple crochet necklaces working my way up to trying a beaded tube of crochet for earrings. I love crocheting hats and scarves and I want to bring crochet together with my beads. 

   

I started working on a flat peyote stitch bracelet , in red, for my daughter, to learn the fast peyote technique. It is somewhat faster, though less rhythmic and meditative. I like working it in the single color, as I only need to pick up 6 red beads and sew. I am not sure how easy it would be to follow a complex pattern this way though, and if you make a mistake (color or 5 beads instead of 6), it is much harder to go back and fix.

One skill I found that I will need to develop in photography so I can capture the beauty of my beads and designs to share. Many of my pieces have been hard to capture on film.