Not unlike Lyzard’s rampaging gorilla, creativity comes roaring through my own mind unchecked and ferocious. Unfortunately the ideas arrive in packs, anxious to be tamed into a physical existence. Otherwise they sit festering, or worse, forgotten, as the momentum passes and I slide back into artistic stagnation (and exhaustion).It’s something I hope to overcome someday, to control those stampedes. Until then I try my hardest to satisfy each idea-creature, seemingly at a snail’s pace. My technique at this point is to start as many projects as I can all at once and work on each in an erratic and broken fashion, hoping that they will all be completed someday. This seems to be working for knitting projects, at least.
The last spurt came a couple of days ago when I sat down to decide what to give people this Christmas. Big surprise: it’s a long list of knitted goodies. After a trip to the store (self-restraint left at home) there are now five projects in the works. And six still running amok, but a girl’s gotta sleep sometime.
Time to fire up the coffee pot, stretch those fingers, and twist some yarn.
