Beads & Knitting, and Misc. Inspiration

Jacqueline Landry, a Knitwear Designer, with a blog post of 2/26/08 on knitting with beads.

The aforementioned blog post does not contain instructions for bead-knit jewelry, but I thought it a change of pace from the usual jeweler's perspective on using knitting with beads. There are all sorts of uses!

Of course, jewelry happens to be a nice one, although I haven't done any knitting with beads as of yet.

On another subject, the necklace you see below that I created with wooden beads created by my father, was inspired by the theme of Love Stories, which was the theme of some Ornament Thursday thing or some such once-a-month thing that a select group of creatives participate in and have links posted on the project blog, linking back to their regular blog, for that month's themed project.

I am so glad to have taken what I needed in the way of inspiration from stumbling upon the project blog in late January, but I no longer feel a "fit" with the place - sort of like the square peg, round hole thing. I don't need acknowledgement, or backlinks, or what--haveyou; the lack -thereof is not why I feel this . . . . misalignment. Crafting is an industry, and sometimes that . . . can just perhaps FEEL too apparent, perhaps? Maybe that's not it either. It's like they sing in the musical, "The Sound of Music", about Maria, about trying to pin something down, and then they can't even define what it is they're trying to pin down, regarding Maria.

Anyway, I wish the Ornament Thursday people success and creativity in their project and such! Perhaps a future month will resonate with me, but I'm going to try to just think about other things right now. I am easily distracted, and that's an understatement! I am easily weighed down by things, that I should just leave behind. I should quit trying to turn into a round peg.

Square pegs are just fine the way they are! And, as you'll see in the necklace below, the beady equivalent highlights- the center-point of the necklace, held away from the skin nicely by the diameter of the turquoise disks!