Def: adj., characterized by or liable to sudden unpredictable changes in attitude or behavior; impulsive; fickle.
Um, yes. I have ECCD. Extremely Capricious Crafting Disorder.
Most of the time, there are multiple crafts lying about me in the evening after the kids have gone to sleep. And I am simultaneously working on all of them. I flit back and forth. For instance, I'll reach into my basket and pull out a ball of yarn and start a mitten. I'll LOVE the mitten, for a couple of minutes. Then I'm thirsty, so I go make myself some tea. mmmm. tea.
I come back to my chair and plop down. I cast about, trying to remember what I was working on a mere 10 minutes before. Ah yes! George's slippers!
I pull them out, I only have a cuff started, but it's something. I promised myself he'd get a pair of slippers, so slippers he will get! I knit 9 or 10 rows. The tea kicks in. Bathroom break...
... and I'm back. now where was I? I see my notepad lying on the coffee table, and remember I had planned to sketch out a design for a snowflake sweater. I start to doodle. I think, it would really be a better idea to do this on graph paper, so I can match up the stitches to my design. I might need some colored pencils and tracing paper too... Where is that tracing paper?
I spend 20 minutes rifling through one of my craft supply "bureaus" which to all the rest of the world, look like bureaus that a normal person would probably store their clothes in. I find 4 unfinished paint-by-numbers (yes, I have a thing for those. they're so pretty, and not at all tacky, as you may believe.), a huge pile of tissue paper, another pile of origami paper (from the great paper folding craze of 2009)... but no tracing paper.
I'm back at my seat now... should I sew a bit? Yes probably... Now it's time for bed... Tomorrow there will be new projects, old projects re-found, and more mess. It's all good.
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ReplyDeletei'm in the midst of a paper folding craze myself. i got my first order of pretty-papers-for-making-christmas-presents in the mail last night.
ReplyDeleteany chance you have some origami books you'd like to sell/trade/loan?
@David - nope, no books... but have you seen PBS's documentary Between the Folds? http://www.greenfusefilms.com/
ReplyDeleteit's on my netflix queue - thanks for reminding me, it's been there since before my latest bout of capriciousness (in favor of paper-folding over accordion-playing).
ReplyDeletePopped over to say hello from your xmas tree post on ROTH blog. Hello, fellow New Englander! I go through phases where I'm very monogamous with my knitting, then very flighty. I've been tasked to make socks for all three children, though, so I've been monogamous lately, but now I also want to make the youngest a doll and blanket for Christmas... so now I'm flighty again, because I'm sick of socks (although not done with them yet!).
ReplyDelete@amy @ kids in the studioHello! Thanks for visiting. I too am working on socks for Christmas presents for both boys. The first pair is finished. The second pair is coming along, but ever so slowly! I have never made a doll, is it difficult?
ReplyDeleteI haven't made it yet, so I don't know. It's this pattern: http://fpea.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-pattern-fridayscrappy-doll.html
ReplyDeleteI've made some other toys, though--Ysolda's bunny, and then I did it again as a dog, and then I made her elephant as a gift, and then I got sick of toys for a while. ;) They were very easy, top down, same as the f. pea one, but not felted.