Try again....

Things aren't going to plan creatively at the moment. I seem to be making the wrong decisions at every turn, don't know what's going on really except to say that maybe things have run unusually smoothly for so long that when they don't work out it's a massive shock. Well not a massive shock but a kind of headache, the good variety I must add. It makes you look again, re-asess. I have been thinking a lot lately about design. It's a fact that I don't consider myself a very good artist with pencil or paint. My skill in that area definitely developed whilst I was at university but I haven't done any ''proper'' design work for ages, years even. Recently though I have had a hankering to draw, experiment like I used to at the start of a new brief. So what's stopping me? Time, or the perception I have of the lack of it, and probably fear too, fear that all I will come up with is a load of old rubbish. It has to happen though and this piece is a perfect illustration of why. I had a plan for this and true to my word I have changed those small scraps into something bigger but it's awful. I really don't like it, it doesn't work at all. These pictures aren't too bad, I can do wonders with a camera but honestly, in it's entirety it's truly hiddeous.The small pieces are now removed from the larger piece and I do have an idea of where I am going with this now but in the meantime, whilst agonising was going on and damp stretching was happening I started something else. And...... I kid you not....that was even worse than this and is now in the rubbish bin, yes the rubbish bin. Now I don't really do New Year celebrations, tommorrow is friday, simple, and I wish good things for everyone all the time not just on a thursday night but.........as everything is pear shaped here I may aswel join in this one time and make a decision that from friday I will set aside some time for drawing, designing. Even half an hour a day would help I am sure. I am not saying you will ever see what I come up with but hopefully the results will show in my embroidery.
I would like to wish you all a year filled with the best, brightest light.

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