Trouble continues in creative land
Creating has been hellish: I can’t seem to do anything that doesn’t turn out looking awful.
I continue to struggle with the magnets—have I suddenly become anal-retentive, agonizing over every excess dot of glue, or am I just not able to make them like I used to? I am still having trouble putting the right amount of silicone sealer to the marbles: too much and it globs all over and looks juvenile; too little and you can see it under the marble. It’s enough to make me scream, especially since this is that prize that is so overdue that I have to send an apology card and throw in an extra gift too I think.
A friend of mine, knowing my love all things crafty, sent me a picture from Cosmo magazine of a knit slouchy beret that she is in love with. It’s the “it thing” right now, as you can see from this clipping, which shows a number of young popular stars wearing the very cute berets in a number of ways. This is not our grandmother’s beret, that’s for sure:
(Image courtesy of Accessories Studio)
I would love to make one for her, because this friend has been nothing but kind for me, but the pattern I found (a very popular knit pattern that’s going around right now is Wendy Bernard’s Le Slouch) uses double pointed knitting needles and Jummy has never had the pleasure of fumbling about with dpns (as the cool kids call them). I’m sure I can direct my questions to Barbara over at Knitting Passion and I may have to, but in the meantime I better get some dpns!
February 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I think it’s great that you are prepared to try using needles you aren’t familiar with in order to do something for a friend!!
As for why your magnets aren’t turning out the way you want?? Maybe trying too hard to be “perfect” on them. I’ve recently discovered that when I just “do” and don’t worry about being absolutely precise, things I make look much better to me in the final product!
February 28th, 2008 at 8:04 am
[...] to the rescue by Jummy Good news: the marble magnets were sent to the lucky winner the very next day! It felt great to shove that off the old to do [...]
March 11th, 2008 at 1:22 am
wow - that is a very cool looking beret! You’ll do fine with the dpns - it just takes a bit of getting used to - if **I** can do it, so can ANYONE/YOU!