Saturday, March 18, 2006
my own worst critic?
i suppose each of us can be of our own work. but is that a bad thing? i don't think so. i think ( don't you hate it when i do that) crocheting/knitting/crafting reflects life. not every day is so good that i want to do it over, but i still want to see what the next day has in store. not every item i make turns out the way i expect it to, yet i go on to another project, because i know some things turn out even better than i think they will and i think to myself WOW!!! i made that-i am crocheter!!!! and i am happy to wear it,carry it,gift it and feel good about it and me. i love that feeling. it's great. and to hear someone else oooohhh and aaaahhhh over it is even better. we all like to know we are good at something. appreciation, respect, envy, even jealousy of our work validates what we do and the time spent doing it............now all of this brings me to the tractor afghan i have been working on for 3 weeks. it's done and i don't like it. at all. not one thing about it.it's wider than i thought it would be ( and i swatched) the tractor is smaller than i thought it would be ( i thought the graph was kinda small) i couldn't get john deere green in a lighter weight yarn so i settled and it isn't right. it turned out more square than i thought so i added more rows,(and i swatched) now the tractor isn't centered--duh? so it's done. i will wash it, block it,give it away to the gal who requested it and be done with it. but i don't like it. i'm not proud of it, i'm not happy with it but........i hope she does. and i know amber will love it. it will be exactly what she wanted and i will get many hugs and thanks for it.but i will always know it wasn't my best work and i will always feel like i cheated her on a gift
i suppose each of us can be of our own work. but is that a bad thing? i don't think so. i think ( don't you hate it when i do that) crocheting/knitting/crafting reflects life. not every day is so good that i want to do it over, but i still want to see what the next day has in store. not every item i make turns out the way i expect it to, yet i go on to another project, because i know some things turn out even better than i think they will and i think to myself WOW!!! i made that-i am crocheter!!!! and i am happy to wear it,carry it,gift it and feel good about it and me. i love that feeling. it's great. and to hear someone else oooohhh and aaaahhhh over it is even better. we all like to know we are good at something. appreciation, respect, envy, even jealousy of our work validates what we do and the time spent doing it............now all of this brings me to the tractor afghan i have been working on for 3 weeks. it's done and i don't like it. at all. not one thing about it.it's wider than i thought it would be ( and i swatched) the tractor is smaller than i thought it would be ( i thought the graph was kinda small) i couldn't get john deere green in a lighter weight yarn so i settled and it isn't right. it turned out more square than i thought so i added more rows,(and i swatched) now the tractor isn't centered--duh? so it's done. i will wash it, block it,give it away to the gal who requested it and be done with it. but i don't like it. i'm not proud of it, i'm not happy with it but........i hope she does. and i know amber will love it. it will be exactly what she wanted and i will get many hugs and thanks for it.but i will always know it wasn't my best work and i will always feel like i cheated her on a gift
# posted by sara @ 5:12 PM 
