seablanket

Seablanket is complete.  Three months of slow crochet.  

 My intention was to use the colour palette of the coast, just a short walk from here.  This blanket is how I see the seaside.  Blue skies // grey skies // darker grey skies // green seaweed // blue sea // green sea // brown pebbles // beige sand.

I am surprised by how much blue there is now that it is finished - that wasn't my intention. I claim to dislike blue but I'm not sure that's true anymore.

quiet january + seaside crochet

I wanted this space to be an honest document of my creativity – I didn't ever want to post something for the sake of it.  And in real life, sometimes there are periods when not a lot of making or artfulness is happening. 

And that's OK.  There hasn't been much studio time, so there hasn't been much to show.  I'm hoping that will change soon but until then I've been slowly working on a blanket.  It's the perfect project to pick up and crochet little bits here and there.  I'm calling it Seablanket and it is inspired by the colours of a grey day at the seaside.

december, suddenly

This space has been too quiet recently.  Not much to share, for now.   

slowly cutting up fabric and stitching it back together again

slow stitches

a blanket :: mended

Back to the blanket.

I put it away for a while with a faint whiff of failure and a large dollop of despondency.  But this month I got it out and I began the very slow process of mending the blanket. And just like that I remembered that I love slow processes, and I love mending. And it became an almost meditative process – the putting the blanket back together, slowly, and making it stronger than it was. 

 Next winter I will sit under it as I work on something else slowly and I will remember to stop and savour the process. Every part of the process.