Yarn Fails
Because nobody’s perfect. Because when you mess around with stuff and experiment, sometimes it just doesn’t work. These are the yarns I don’t post on my page! And trust me, I made a couple this last week already. It occured to me today that if I only ever show people my non-fail yarns, it might actually look like I am just always on a roll, and even now, as I write this, I am wondering if I actually am going to post pics of my total mess-up yarns. Ok there is time to decide before I finish writing. The point is, if no one ever posts their fails it can be misleading, and potentially produce feelings of inadequacy in viewers. You know, when you visit someones fiber love page and you see all the amazing things they make and you think ‘wow, I could never do that’ and you feel your creativity sink out the bottom of your thick soled Doc Martins and your inspiration takes a flying leap from the nearest water tower. All hope, at this point, seems utterly lost, because they are just so, perfect. The thing is, and I am pretty sure of this, no one can do any of this and have wonderful yarn every time. Unless they perhaps do the same thing all the time anyway. Then I guess the chances are fairly high that their stuff is always going to be amazing.. but okay, thats not what I am talking about. I mean that when you want to grow, to open the windows and let in the light, you need to take some risks and try things out. Sometimes you have this idea in your head and you are sure its going to go one way (the way you want) but when you try it out, even though the theory was great, you find that actually. No. It doesnt really do anything that you hoped and there you have it, a yarn fail. Some people might consider that there is no such thing as yarn fail. That in the world of ‘art’ yarns, there are no wrong answers. So ok, here is an example from this week. I have been playing around with different kinds of silk, previously having some fun experimenting with wrapping the fibers around a coiled yarn (in the Shelob Yarn which wasn’t a fail and ended up on the Majacraft blog), and I wanted to take this further and see what else I could do. Maybe that was the day when creativity had left the building, but it seemed that no matter what I tried it just didnt work out into anything pretty, or even useful. So I gave...
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