The pieces I'm hoping to submit for an exhibition are about 80 percent done but I've still got a bit to do before I hand them in on Monday. I feel like I've been working so long on it, but not a lot to show because I keep pulling things apart and reworking them. I put a lot of pressure on my days in the studio too, which doesn't help.
I watched a great doco on Leonard Cohen the other day and he said, if what you do is creative, you have to be prepared to go to work every day, and accept that it (the inspiration) is not going to come to you every day. I think I've made my peace with that idea and rather than fighting the 'knitter's block', I change focus for awhile and don't feel guilty about it.
This is one of the pieces I made when I needed some light relief. I made it up as I went along and worked on it whenever I didn't feel like doing the other project. I ended up dyeing it too because I didn't like the mid purple it was originally. I used black dye to dirty down the colour.
