I simply like to make things …
Sometimes with an end in mind, as with this bit of Inktense block doodling that is destined to be torn apart …
for collage …
But mostly I just love getting lost in the making …
for its own sake.
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I love how you plurk (play + work word invented by my friend Tilly in The Netherlands) with such beautiful intent!
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Ha … I almost titled this post “play-full” … as this word-play certainly is!
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Oh to be lost in the bevy of thread. I need to travel on a thread. Somehow, I can’t find the portal point.
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Sue – these cloth squares began with the Tierney Barden dyed cloth you gave me … just patches when my mind couldn’t focus … now becoming …
so maybe this: just go …
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This is what we as preschool teachers always say…it’s about the process! This is just how I feel too, it’s the making that matters. Perhaps that is why I drag my feet (as I’ve been doing lately) when making a Christmas Stocking, for then it is about product just as much or more.
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Children understand the “work” of play … how we best learn by doing … and get lost in the wonder of it all
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I’m afraid I always have an end in mind when I’m stitching, knitting or quilting. I wish I could let go more like you Liz. You are always an inspiration to me. The only time I allow myself to play is during clay demonstrations with my students. Past tense of course. 😦 And I enjoy that the most cuz I never know where I’ll end up.
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These days my making is far more about the journey rather than the destination … I credit the Kindred Spirits for encouraging this new way of going
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Love seeing that little tip of so many scraps married together. Seems you and gel medium are plurking together quite nicely.
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True for now, but I’m looking forward to more refined collage techniques in the near future … my YES paste awaits
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LA – getting lost in the making is what feeds our souls. Keep getting lost and creating. Go well. B
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B – I quite agree
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Oh Liz I came back to scope out your use of inktense inkblocks as I am thinking of adding them to my holiday gift from Jim art splurge. It would be nothing *but* splurge since I have the pencils. But I’d like them all the same. Meanwhile I kept scrolling down to see your creative space and then visualize what you described of the Making Blizzard superimposed. Noticed something else first – another random yet significant commonality we share. We have the same sewing machine!
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A 1980-ish Kenmore … only serviced once, I’m embarrassed to admit … about five years ago
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