Do something creative every day

Lyn

We'd all be a lot happier if creativity featured in our daily lives, but do you think your life is far too complicated or busy for that to happen? Ruth Lane shows how easy it is to achieve daily creativity in her post a daily dose of fiber challenge.

I'm using my lovely felt-covered diary, pictured in the last post, as a focusing tool.  Every day I decide what I'd like to achieve and I write it in the diary.  It then sits open on my desk, quietly nagging at me, and encouraging me to focus on my goal instead of faffing around. When my day doesn't go as planned (which is more often than I'd like), I don't panic, I just fit in what I can, even if it's just thinking about my project, then re-assess things the following day.  

I've always been fascinated by cobweb felt and I wanted to make a vessel solid enough to stand on its own, topped with a delicate cobweb collar.

I blended turquoise, white, blue, lilac, mauve and yellow merino wool, with a little yellow throwsters waste, and wet felted around a top open resist.  It was a bit of a struggle to work with two different kinds of felt, one at each end of the resist, and the cobweb felt tried very hard to snuggle down with the regular felt, but here it is finished and standing 27cm tall.  

I had a little blended wool left over and I couldn't resist making this decorative bowl that measures 18 cms across the top.  It's standing up well, even though it's delicate felt, but if it starts to droop, I'll either wet it and dunk it in a weak solution of CMC paste before putting it upside down over a bowl to set, or I'll firm it up with machine stitching.

So, what are your creative plans for this week and how are you going to make them happen?

Comments

[Make and Craft]

Beautiful creations as always! The daily habit is very important. I think the key is in the planning and making it easy for creativity to happen daily. Like in the link you shared, I always have a little project in a bag with everything I need so that I always have something easily to hand. I have different projects for different things on at any one time, eg a little project in my handbag for when I'm commuting and bigger projects in my work room.

[woolbrain]

I love your plan of action :) I hope to be able to do somewhat the same thing ....ever hopeful. Your vessels are lovely. I have made something similar and I used a spray starch to hold the shape.

[Annie and Lyn]

Hello Judy,

Thank you for your good wishes and kind comment.

CMC paste (Carboxymethyl Cellulose) is like wallpaper paste and you will find it easily where you would buy supplies for silk paper making. It usually comes as granules that you mix with water.
But we don't know whether it would hold twine or not.

[Ann McElroy]

It's really nic. I like the colour blend very much. It is fun to make vessels.

[Judy]

Hello Annie and Lyn,

I would like to wish you two a Very Happy and Healthy New Year.

I absolutely LOVE your new vessel. It is gorgeous. I love all the wool colors you picked. They are all perfect together.

May I ask what is CMC paste and where would you buy it. Do you think it would hold together twine?? Thanks. Hugs Judy