Taexalia

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The Long and the short of it

I temporarily suspended my sock knitting adventure to concentrate on finishing the baby papoose. Although I'm a fairly new knitter, I see myself as having a Work In Progress basket always filled with a number of projects... but the baby papoose doesn't have the luxury of lounging amongst half knitted socks and the fantasy of other things I imagine creating with needles - babies grow fast and there are no guarantees this garment could be shuffled to accommodate the "next baby".

The reason I wanted to knit socks was because they are small garments with a relatively quick return rate. The papoose is thus far a long stretch of repetitive wivven fabric that's saviour is the delicious soft feel of the alpaca wool and the (possibly inappropriate) colours (I had no idea what colours to pick and don't subscribe to the pink-for-a-girl-blue-for-a-boy-yellow-for-a-maybe way of things - so I picked my favourites).

It is the first time I have bought a knitting pattern and so I'm quite pleased with myself to see that I'm about two thirds through with the end in sight.... somewhere...

WIP Baby Papoose

So some creative tasks are long-term commitments, whereas others are short sharp shocks...

Having been abused for several hours by sound effects I can only liken to a big bass drum erratically played by someone trying to keep time to a Wrestlemania 3 final, I decided to use the pent up energy that I really wanted to exert on my ceiling in a more constructive manner.

I gave myself 10 minutes to create one SoulCollage card using only images from a single folder (I now have about 30 folders of images). This is way different from my favourite way of making cards where I sift through several folders pulling images and then make a card, and I found that I really like the swift process and the lack of *thinking*...

Birthing The Castle SoulCollage Card

(The scanner isn't hooked up so I'll get a better copy later)

Not surprisingly the card contains a huge and luxurious home with snowdrops which symbolise the hope of Spring to me... The pregnant belly and the clock tower suggests to me that time is manifesting a new beginning...