When I started knitting I was worried that I would always follow a pattern and never really create something that was all my own. That has totally changed and I am proud of myself.
I had been looking at doing some prayer/meditation shawls and was very intimidated on how beautiful they were and I would never figure out what to do to create my own niche in the knitting world. After taking a basic designing class I started working on my first peice. I went with a trapezoid type shape and then used a program that will take a picture of a symbol and turn it into a knitting graph. I am not a fan of graphs but now that I am using one in the manner of designing I love it. I decided to do a triple moon goddess symbol and I wanted to bead her.
Working on a shawl when you are a slow knitter & designing as you go proves to be a long work in progress. But today I started the beadwork and I have a renewed sense of excitement for my shawl.
Isn’t that adorable? And I love how the dark blue is like a night sky and the silver beads are like stars. I am a nighttime of gal and this is perfect for what I had envisioned. Now I am thrilled and have about 50 million ideas flowing through the brain.
So if you have considered designing but are intimidated by the idea of taking on that task…..it really isn’t that hard. Give it a go, the worst that will happen is something doesn’t work and you figure out how to put your vision into the fiber.
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