Hi there, beautiful yarns , how have i not come across you before??   I have maintained my sanity through the years since i was a little girl by being creative. I have been a big scrapbooker for about 25 years (way before the word archival free became a household craft term, smile)  i love quilting but that has falled on the back burner as of late as well as sewing.I like to build wooden dollhouses and create the items for the rooms as well. I enjoy beading, spinning and knitting. (my new fav's!) I also really enjoy refurbishing items into new lives. Old tea cups and saucers on copper posts in the garden for bird baths or feeders, etc. Without crafting to express an outlet  I seriously do not know what my sanity level would be like. It has gotten me through some rough times in life, .like yoga while i craft i can think and center my thoughts. I think most crafts feel this way. Keep up the beautiful work!! Thanks, Turtle

I find that when I am in pain or things get too much making an elemental figure or two helps tremendously. I let the muse have the lead and follow her. I make elemental figures for the 5 elements and also zodiacal ones

i love to knit, to buy yarn, to imagine how the colors will look with each other or stripe or pool - i enjoy every part of knitting, selecting the pattern, the yarn, buttons, etc.

thanks for the opportunity - your yarn looks wonderful, hmmm....i'm beginning to wonder what i could make from it, what pattern, what colors . . . hmmm

amy
amyknit40@blogspot.com

Your yarns are absolutely fab.

I love doing freeform knitting and crochet, adding new colors and textures as I go. I'm also mostly a non-pattern knitters.

I express myself creatively by, well, making up my own designs as I go along.  I really need to get around to writing them down!  Sometimes I have fun with dyeing or something other than knitting, but usually it's yarn love all the way.

Hi! I found out about your contest from WiKnit, and am now trying to find out how to reach your online shop... but first I thought I'd enter your contest!
I have many creative outlets: knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, painting...! It's most definitely an escape for me. When I hurt or don't feel well, that's always how I've taken my mind off of it, ever since I was little. I spent a lot of time in the hospital, and I have my mother and the child life therapists at the hospital to thank for getting me into crafts. :)  Now I mostly knit and crochet, since it's easy to do, and since I'm now in college. I used to get really frustrated when things didn't work out the way I wanted them to, but my mom taught me to find beauty in those mistakes, calling them "happy accidents". I know this all sounds really cheesy, but it's all very true! Now I am very much a crafter, and can almost always be found with a bag filled with yarn, needles, hooks, and patterns nearby, if not already in my hands. :)

Hi,

When I'm feeling creative, I either knit or write.  I write for articles for parenting magazines and newspapers but nothing too serious.  My wonky sense of humor always seems poke through so I keep everything light.

Hmmmm, this is really making me think.  I have always used my hands to create things, from the time I was able to hold a pencil or crayon in my hand I have been drawing and sketching.  Painting, oils, acrylics, water colors, yeah.  Have been working w/ fiber since I was about 5, learned to crochet then, and just a bit later learned to knit.  Have done just about anything and everything needlework wise, but do have my favorites.  Knitting, off~loom beadwork, and spinning my own yarn are tops in my book, just learned to spin a few years ago.  {Which definitely puts to rest the saying that you can't teach an old dog new tricks <G>}

I too love color, and love working w/ color when knitting or beading.  I love to design my own patterns and have been doing so for the longest time.  Most of the time I sort of design as I go, sometimes do draw my own graphs or charts before I knit, those are usually intarsia patterns, stranded, mosaic work, or really involved beading patterns.  If I am using a pattern not my own, I simply CANNOT leave it as it is, it's as though my hands just want to do their own thing. 

So far I have not ever felt pushed outside that comfort zone, have learned over the years that if I just let my hands alone, they will do whatever I need.  And learning new techniques or handcrafty stuff is just plain fun IMHO.  I think that handcrafts are more than my "hobby", they are my sanity, and my way to express that inner being that resides in everyone, that Goddess of Creativity that just has to come out one way or another for whatever reason.

Whoops, have gone on longer than I meant,

Huggle,

I'm a follow the rules person.  I like to follow a pattern and see what comes off the needles.  Crocheting is way outside my comfort zone.  Only one needle?  That's just crazy!

I too am a yarn dyer!  I love experimenting with colors and definitely do not follow any rules.  Some of my yarns are natured inspired, but on others I just combine colors that I think might match & then come up with a name later.

When it comes to actually knitting though, I like to follow the rules (except when it comes to gauge swatches!).  I haven't knitted long enough to deviate from a pattern, but I do love trying to design my own!

Hey, there. I found your blog via WiKnit, and when I saw what you were asking, I just had to respond. I'm an art student who loves doing just about anything with her hands. I do printmaking, papermaking, painting, sculpting, and drawing, for starters, and ever since I've started knitting I've been devoted to all things fibery. I use my artwork to work out and express ideas I'm drawn to, one way or another. I tend to sort of do my own thing and trust that the pieces will all come together the way I envision in the end, and for the most part, it works.

Congratulations on the milestones!

I am usually somewhere in between following the rules and doing whatever speaks to me - I like to use patterns for some things, but it's rare that I don't modify them a bit, and I can make things without patterns as long as I plan ahead. I push myself out of my comfort zone more often by trying a new technique than by using things I know in a different way.

I'm just now getting in touch with creativity by learning to knit in January.  I'm probably never going to be a designer and am more of a follow the rules kind of girl.  But knitting makes me feel creative and it relaxes me.  Dying yarn, interests me though.  Your colors are beautiful.  Happy Blogiversary and Happy one year shop Anniversary.