It is cold! Winter appears to be LONG this year. And COLD!
When I recently started updating my BLANKETS and WEARABLES pages, I noticed a trend in the photos I took of my crochet creations. I have not been able to blog regularly because of other commitments. That is okay. I have various things pulling on my time and consciousness, mostly for educational and personal development reasons. It’s all good. I am still able to crochet, please do not worry. Just that I am doing it less frequently, because my mind is otherwise engaged. And so are my hands – typing mostly…
So when I crochet, at the moment, I make easy things I do not have to spend as much mental power on, projects I can genuinely do without thinking. Rainbow has returned to me, as it keeps me cheerful. Marvelling at brightly coloured yarn is still a favourite pastime of mine.
So, worry not; I am still and always woolly! At the least, I am wool adjacent 🙂 !
I have made a few things to commission and for family. And what I have noticed, is how much more interesting the story of each crochet piece is when enmeshed in the photos with the wearer…
Honest truth: I entirely forgot to take a picture of the finished blanket in the first photo. And of another one I made to order. The making has become much more important part of the process than the displaying it online afterwards. Totally forgot that part. And then I realised: “But I want to record and show what I have made, that I have made it!! So the below photo will have to do.
And it did its job! It moved my thinking onto what happens to the pieces I make after they are gifted/ find their righteous owner. They are used, they get washed and folded, and used again, and washed again, and on and on like this it goes. Sometimes, when I visit the houses of friends and see an old piece of mine, I think – did I really make that? Sometimes a memory comes up on social media of a piece, and I think: “Who was that one for?”
So I suppose I am getting a little nostalgic and grateful about how the piece of crochet work, once it finishes its journey in my house, it takes on a whole new adventure. And also how flat, void of emotion, presentable photos of my work are missing something. They are missing the human body who envelops themselves in it! They are missing their core fleshy being. Maybe, I shall change the way I capture the liveliness and nurture of these necessities. Of the woolly wonders in their full usage, by beings.
Kind of like coming full circles, when I explored exactly this quality of crochet for my art degree show, all those years ago HERE and in another blog post with my video work HERE.
Feel free to sent me photos of items made by me in use, it will be great to see them live on, nurtured.
Thanks for reading!
