Creativity and creation…

Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World

I love the blog written by a  verypurpleperson – and this is reviewing a book with a subject dear to my heart. I haven’t blogged hugely about my quilting, knitting, sewing etc because- well, i haven’t. That may change, my blog is about what is happening when i am in front of the computer right NOW – and often when i am creating, as i was today, i am not necessarily computing. Ok, this varies, as i use mockup tools, and design software like EQuilter 6 (7 on way yay!). Suspect beloved iPad will change things too;)

Yet they are important to me, and Facebook admittedly had a gallery of the collective efforts of my beloved sisters of making, and i. This may – WILL – have to have a new page and life here. The quilts i made for my two youngest, myself (the very first, now the guest quilt here), my father, my beloved ex (no, not that one;) ), the ones i make for friends, the six or seven i have on the go at any point for other offspring, for my new bedroom, for friends – the objects i make as gifts, such as the bags i make, or the things i make from the scraps, the various bits and pieces made –  from clothes to small fripperies, keep me sane. It is a giving of oneself on a deep level, of the thing we all seem poorest of, time. I often recycle material, either as patches, or as .5″ strips for knitting (with or without wool, amazingly lovely possibilities). I LOVE it when people ask me for help in fixing something, or if i could make something. As a collective, three of us have bought much material – but are using every last scrap, all the way down now to the merest strips to fill pet beds to donate to Animal Welfare. One project i love the sound of is memory quilts, when someone dies, clothing and special fabrics of that person’s life are made into a keepsake. I will do that, (but hopefully not for a while, not needed at least) when asked:)

Here is a small project, made collectively over a day, for a magic butterfly girl born a year ago….a play snuggle rug, a small gesture of love in a hurry, as she was…

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