Thursday, October 29, 2009

My Creative Space: a love-hate relationship...

I have been trying really hard to come up with some variety for my market stall at Mathilda's this Sunday. I'm a little nervous about a big fancy market like this, and am stressing that my humble Glebe set up just won't cut it... so in a bid to calm my nerves and add some spice to my table, I decided to make some of my 'flighty birds'... a pattern I came up with a while ago & which was really popular... After making up one bird, I was thinking to myself, why don't I do more of these... so I made up a second and it was all good. Then I decided to speed things up, I'd make some bodies, some faces, some wings, some legs and put them all together... I spent all of Tuesday working on 7 of these birds, and I mean ALL DAY... at 8pm I was finally sewing together the first bird, and feeling relieved that I would something to show for my work...



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This is it... it's still sitting where I threw it when I realised that I had sewn the back side facing out, after having double stitched and trimmed the corners. I took deep breaths and tried to unpick but in severe frustration it was abandoned...


And I was thinking about it, I do things like this all the time when I'm making these birds, and I still have about 5 in the cupboard from several months ago that are all ready for their backs and legs and they'd be completely finished, but I cringe at the thought of all the little fiddly bits and pieces, the changing of cotton colours, oh, it sounds trivial I know, but I'm getting tense just thinking about having to sew these birds! Something always goes wrong when I make them, usually because I get really frustrated and mess something simple up... which is funny (and not ha ha funny!), since some of the other toys I make are way more complicated...


And so, around my creative space right now, you'll find various birds at various stages of completion...



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Oh my goodness, some are actually finished!

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I hope your creative space has been more rewarding than mine, pop over to Kirsty's to check out everyone else's space, and don't forget to scroll down and enter my giveaway-- just need to leave a comment there.

Happy stress-free Thursday to you all!

B.

18 comments:

Kirsty said...

Oh NO! How frustrating. What's in your space looks divine if that's any consolation. x

Louise said...

One of my fondest childhood memories is of mum (a seamstress) rolling out meters of fabric for commissioned curtains (a hotel) in the living room, right before bedtime. And the tears of frustration when things weren't going right! So, probably not one of my mum's fondest memories. I'm sure you can identify.

Kate said...

Your photos are gorgeous. I do hate that feeling of realising you've sewn somethig inside out. I hope things go smoothly from here on.

beck said...

I know how you feel, I had a similar day recently. It's such a pain, especially when you could have been doing something else! But I'm sure today will be a better day and I bet the market will be excellent too. Good luck xo

Lush said...

Keep going, you"ll get there, and you'll be so glad you did! Love the birdies

Kylie said...

I know exactly what you mean... usually though it's the stress of trying to meet a deadline that does it for me. They look wonderful, if that's any help :) K

Tara (Aussie-Waffler) said...

Eek, I can only imagine your frustration but those little doll faces are absolutely adorable.

Neen said...

I totally understand that hesitation you feel towards sewing the tricky bits, we need to be like lions when we sit down with our machines. Lions I tells you.
But your birds will be beautiful, Im sure of it.

kellie said...

oh no! take a breath! all your stuff is so gorgeous, you will do great. good luck and I hope the world rights itself.

ecoMILF said...

Your entire site is a creative space. I am in love with the blinkies! Would love to see these irds you talk of.. I could only find half glimpses. I'll have to search some more. xo Meagan.

Gina said...

Oh, I hope you get over the hurdle... and save those little birdies! Good luck at Mathilda's. You'll do just great, I'm sure.

curlypops said...

Oh no I hate unpicking too so I usually just throw things into a crap pile!
Good luck with the market prep.

midge said...

make this your mantra, "no more self doubt". you will do great your work is lovely. poor little birdies, would love to see them finished

jeanamarie said...

some things are just like that aren't they? it's like early on in a project a block is developed, then every time we come back to it the slight anxiety comes back to haunt us, getting a bit bigger each time ... and has absolutely nothing to do with the skills involved - just a funny block. I know I;m also prone to making mistakes if I've been doing something repetitive for a long time and I'm tired ...or maybe that's just me ;)

sherrin said...

Good luck... I hope the rest of the process is smooth. If it's any consolation, your process, photos and space look lovely.

Nic @ yardage girl said...

Oh no - bummer when that happens. I'm sure you're over it by now!! Have a great market - with or without the birds!

kuka said...

oooooh no!! That's exactly the sort of thing i would do!
The little guys you've finished are just gorgeous though!
Good luck!

swiedebie said...

Good luck to the fair. Your little ones are very adorable!