Happy Friday! I’ve been noticing that I like to go in cycles when it comes to making things. Right now, I’m feeling a huge resurgence of love for sewing and my sketching/painting is taking a back seat. I had a brief fling with knitting and then my enthusiasm waned, but I can tell that I’ll want to go back once the sewing bug eases up a bit. Do you find that? Are you the alternating or concurrent type? I used to think I liked to dabble in a variety of crafts at the same time, but lately I want to focus more — what is it that they call it? Single-tasking, I think.
Anyway, I painted this li’l blue-grey lady a while back with some beautiful handmade Greenleaf and Blueberry watercolors (based here in Washington!).
We had a balmy, sunny, I-want-to-run-around-without-my-winter-coat kind of day yesterday and I’m hoping for some more of those.
I’m wishing you a happy weekend!
Haiku by K:
Friday is the best
No homework I need to do
I get to relax
I am kind of a single minded gal… mostly just sewing. I find my mind is too cluttered trying to remember to many things! Up here it’s raining today, not sure if it is in Seattle too. But yesterday was beautiful!!
That’s awesome that you’re so focused, Kristi! Yes, the weather’s been flip flopping here in the PNW, hasn’t it?
I like that haiku by K!
I am pretty much a one-obsession-at-a-time type of gal. That’s why I haven’t been sewing because I’ve been knitting! Now I am eyeing beading…! One of the things I am trying to do better in this year is to not get focused so much on just ONE thing. *sigh* We’ll see how successful I get with it.
Happy weekend. We had some lovely sunshine yesterday but we are back to the pitter-patter of rain as I type.
Oooh, beading sounds like fun! My mom is hugely into it, especially because my grandma (her mother) did beadwork in Japan.
Nothing wrong with one thing, I say!
I definitely oscillate between many many (“too many!” my boyfriend says) hobbies. It keeps things refreshing
but results in a few unfinished projects always lying around. And, what a coincidence that you’re using naturally-made pigment. I’m taking a class tomorrow on how to make my own!! http://www.hand-made-studio.org/classesandworkshops/2016/1/30/supernatural-paint 
So cool, Jeannie! The workshop sounds amazing and I’m so excited for you!! Let me know how it goes, so curious. P.S. I’m shipping the giveaway for you this weekend!
Yes I usually switch from one to another. But I also usually have a knitting project I can work on in the car which means I would technically be working on two at the same time.
I do love the portability of knitting! I think I’m incapable of doing just one thing so I do have things in the works all the time, but I’m hoping I can harness some laser focus on certain projects! Thanks, Em!
I’m like that too
I have a few different creative hobbies and I tend to obsess randomly over one. No logic. I’m just like “must knit all of the things” until it runs it’s course haha!
So right with you, Kathryn! I think each different type of crafting/making satisfies a different part of my brain :-).