5,4,3,2,1 About Me
KatieI'll be posting the play food carving tutorial later today, it's for a wooden knife and cutting board. Meanwhile, Craftzine blog is doing a series of interviews exploring the creative lives of crafters and I'm jumping on the bandwagon. Answering these questions was tougher than I expected, which made me even more glad that I took the time to answer them.
One Project You Are Particularly Proud Of
1. I'm on the cusp of a new big project, the biggest I've done, and I'm very proud to be working on it. I just can't talk about it yet. (How obnoxiously coy, I know, but it's true!)
Two Mistakes You've Made in the Past
2. Assuming that the success of others leaves no room for my success.
3. Wating too long to buy a decent camera. I love my Canon T1i.
Three Things That Make Your Work Unique
4. I mostly design knitting patterns for small, felted projects. I'm not really interested in making garments. I love the technical aspect of constructing the shaping so a knitted object felts perfectly to shape during felting. The alchemical aspect of felting never gets old.
5. I don't pigeonhole the creative work I do: knitting, construction, leatherwork, wood carving, it's all fair game.
6. My work is all about the challenge of figuring out something new, then moving on to another problem to solve, one more puzzle to work out. Sometimes I want to change this part of me, but mostly I appreciate the curiousity and drive.
Four Tools You Love to Use
7. My imac.
8. My carving knife.
9. My Brittany size 10 1/2 double pointed knitting needles.
10. My bike.
11. My jigsaw.
Five Inspirations
12. My family's farm.
13. My small town.
14. My clever, talented friends, sisters and mom.
15. Time to myself.
16. Thrift shop visits.
How about you? Are you participating in this series? I'm really enjoying reading these bits of information about other creative people.
Reader Comments (6)
It was so fun to read about you! Thanks for sharing the link!
This was nice to read. I found this inspiring:
. Thanks for sharing!Thanks Melina, it's a lesson I am still working to absorb!
I love your rainbow shawl--gorgeous work and a lovely post. I'm a big fan of this Craft series and answered the questions on my own blog. It was fun to think about the questions.
thank you for your inspiring post! I pinned it to my I LIKE IT board, I love that you're true to what inspires you, and you're making a go of it, in what looks like a very successful way.
it warmed my heart to hear about your 2 past mistakes. those are the mistakes i'm experiencing right now. thank you for sharing your experience. very inspirational.