One Week of Art
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Tags: Ideas & Inspiration, Video
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This is kind of inspiring. Not only because so much neat stuff was produced in just a week, but because the neat stuff was painted right on top of everything else. If I had produced some of these things, I would never ever ever paint over it! I’m squirming as we speak! And by speak, I mean blog.
Maybe the moral of this story is that we shouldn’t be so romantic about our work, treating it like it’s sacred. When I received my sweetgeorgia yarn* for example, it was so expensive that I was afraid of dropping it on the ground. But hey, come on Eve, you’re going to be wearing this stuff! It’s not like you’re going to float above the floor when you’re walking around in your socks. These clothes are meant to be worn, and when they become unfashionable or old, they’re meant to be reknit or packed away or *shudder* thrown out.
So no more. From now on, no yarn is sacred! Like smashing champagne against the hull of a ship before it takes to the sea, each of my projects will touch the floor at least once before being knit. Smash! Smash again! Floor-touch!
* namedrop!
hear, hear … I agree!
Comment by Rhonda the StitchingnutJune 27, 2007 @ 8:54 am
Oh well said! I’ll remember that the next time I have a yarn that’s “so beautiful I’ll only screw it up if I knit with it.”
Comment by ArielJune 27, 2007 @ 12:21 pm