Time Management

Yesterday we went to the cinema to see Maleficent. It was fantastic and as we sat there, my brain started to fizz with ideas and patterns.

The previous evening we’d been at a BBQ at my friend Lucy’s house. She’s a fellow knitter and she was showing me yarn combinations exclaiming she didn’t know what to knit with them. Would she like me to design something for her? Her eyes lit up as we discussed what she wanted and stitch ideas. There’s a definite idea which is very exciting.

Then there’s the shawl idea that’s been living in my head and on paper for the last 8 months, waiting for me to get to it.

And let’s not forget about sweater designs, sample knitting, sock wrangling, patterns on needles and all the other things that require my attention.

The point is not “Poor me, I have so much to do” more, “How will I ever get to all these things?” because I want to do all of them. And for the most part, I am the only one who can do them. The fledgling ideas are in my head waiting for me to give them wings. The WIPs are on my needles waiting for me to work out and fine tune the details. I know being in the studio helps. There are less distractions and I get through an amazing amount of work but each stitch takes time.

When you consider the work of Michaelangelo and Raphael, it can make you dizzy. Then you remember they had teams of people doing all the colouring in for them. They had the ideas and then passed them on to others to complete. I don’t have that luxury and nor would I want it, but I do need to find away of working through my ideas and developing things to a finished object in a way that makes me feel at my most productive.

Maybe I’m already there and this is just how designer/makers feel. Maybe my system just needs a tweak to make it run at it’s optimum. If anyone knows the answer please feel free to share their thoughts.

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