Recently, these words caught my eye:
“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free play with no rules, it’s easier to just submerge yourself joyfully into the process of making things. We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun.” —Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Once again the universe is telling me to enjoy the process, to cultivate the process, so that’s what I’m doing. It’s not freeform by today’s generally accepted *definition, of course, but making variations on my own Vacation Favorite pattern is at least improvisatory, and it’s definitely fun summer knitting. In my current WIP, knitting will be combined with crochet and Tunisian crochet (there’s a little band of Tunisian Simple Stitch close to the live stitches on the needle). As with the last variation, I’m using the Vacation Favorite stitch patterns (so far, there’s striped garter stitch and fairy lights, worked randomly instead of strictly by the pattern) and adding others, deciding as I go what to do next. The yarn is Merino Sock from Dark Omen, an independent dyer from Italy.
What stitches do you like to add in to your projects?
*freeform crochet has no strict definition, but most artists work with organic shapes rather than regular rows or rounds, changing yarns and textures frequently.
Freeform Yarny Things 