This
bitty blog post is a "step further" of a blog post “Spinning Yarns”
http://yaoutsidethelines.blogspot.com/
by a dear friend, Tracy Barrett. She is an accomplished young adult author who is also a knitting enthusiast. Her blog post lists some
of the similarities between writing and knitting. After reading it, I
thought I might carry it a step further, and list a few of my
thoughts on similarities between illustrating, writing and the needle
arts many of us love.
No
matter the discipline, (illustrating, writing, knitting, crocheting
etc) anyone that engages in such pursuits is creating something that
did not exist before.
Whether
it is spinning yarn out of sheep's wool,
or
writing a manuscript that I can illustrate,
we are
creating something from our own imagination......
Little Knittin' KItteh
or
“knitting an idea into being”.
Whether
we use simile: “Her imagination came to life.......just like she
was really there “
or
color/setting consistency (like this series of book covers)
or a
knitting pattern repeat,
we are
saying that this is like that, and" that" makes a pattern, and tells
part of a story.
I've
always thought that writing, illustrating, knitting et al, are all
parts of a story of creating.....no matter the medium you work
in,........no matter the discipline that you follow, it's all making
something!
