The Creative Mind

Here is a peek at how my mind gets away from me. I've been working with Alcohol inks that I made from sharpies. I made a TON of them. (I had a 24 pack I bought years ago and never used)I've had so much fun with them, I keep seeing out more stuff to do. Ha! One of the first things I did were 2 mini stemless wineglasses.  I alcohol inked them in some awesome colors and then cut some vinyl decals with my Cricut. One says design and the other, create. I always wished I had a 3rd that said imagine to properly begin the cycle - imagine, design, create. So, when I wound up with a regular stemless wineglass that I decorated with some used tape from a watercolor I had done and realized it had the perfect spot for a creatively inspirational word. I choose Imagine, of course. I can't find a font I like, so I google it for ideas. Turns out, my head can't follow directions so when I stumble upon things for the Lennon song (I LOVE that song) I realize my cup had other plans for itself. I give in to the cup and wind up with a Lennon imagine decal on my cup. I love it. But, during that quick Google Search, I found oodles of images and now I wanna make like 7 different Lennon shirts. Ha!

Loom Knitting

My daughter recently was given a loom knitting kit for Christmas.  She used it a little but quickly got bored as anything that requires sitting still tends to bore her relatively quick.  lol.  So, I basically, I got a Loom knitting kit for Christmas.  I gotta say, I kinda love it.  I even got a couple more looms to go with it.  lol.  I've made 1 hat, 1 headband, 1 scarf and 2 flowers.  I found some resources on youtube and instagram which I haven't really looked into but I have them and that's the first step.  lol.  So, fingers crossed I do that soon.  I'm struggling with my yarning, as of late.  I unintentionally took off a year or more from yarning with the exception of VERY VERY SLOWLY picking away at a baby blanket.  Once I realized what had happened and that it had been so very long since I'd completed any kind of yarn project, I decided I needed to fix that.  SO I started back up and made a few things.  This also happened to coincide with the loom knitting kit so it worked out well. I was doing good.  Then I got a cricut and now I'm distracted.  HA!  I will get back to it, though.  I will say, there may be a bit of cricut chat that oozes into this blog, too, now.  It's a heap of fun.  If you can get one, do it.  DO IT.  lol.  

Hello!

Hi!  I'm Lisa.  I'm bistitual - I knit AND crochet.   Currently, I seem to be leaning towards the crochet side of things as I'm learning how much fun there is in things like slippers, baby booties and hats!  I just finished my first pair of women's slippers and I LOVE them.  Next up is a fun pair for a 5 yr old girl. I have an online knitting group that occasionally meets in real life too - it's a place of sanity for a few of my very favorite people.  (Yarnies really ARE a wonderful breed)  I'm a little goofy, a little geeky and I'm aiming to grow every day.  I've been on a journey to make me a better person inside and out and being more consistent with my knitting is a BIG part of it for me.   I have a little etsy shop - F.I. knits and things.  You can also find me on Facebook
and Instagram Thank you for coming to check me out.  :)  I'm not entirely sure what I'll be posting - I'll sort of figure that out as I go.  I hope you enjoy the ramblings of a girl and her adventures in profitable hobbying.  Oh, and I AM yarned but I'm not REALLY dangerous.  ;0)