the freeform 365 project continues. for weeks, i went it alone, which i found interesting enough. however, with the participation of others, new challenges, and new rewards, present themselves!
currently we have two other active members who are managing to upload their single scan or photo of daily progress on their piece. we also have three waiting in the wings. it's hard to take the initial plunge. actually, one of our in-the-wings people had been actively participating until her camera died; i lent her a digital camera so she could start again, and she soon reported that in learning to use it she had found ten to twenty minutes of digital video of flannery that i hadn't even remembered existed. so that's one indirect perk of freeform - the lost flanny tapes.
having made a quick trip to manhattan yesterday, bumming around with rose while ben was a young lion down at the world trade center complex, i discovered another great thing about freeform - it's an awesome excuse to buy teeny little remainder bags of stuff that otherwise wouldn't be enough to do anything at all with. and, at habu textiles , there happens to be a whole section of floor in the front of their studio/showroom dedicated to heaps and baskets of just such little baggies. they'd have held appeal, but no purpose, for me without freeform - but with freeform, they made perfect sense, and so i bought a lot of them.
i also bought some very pretty red bamboo yarn and some of the stainless steel core, wool-wrapped stuff. and - when it rains it pours - just two days ago a friend gifted me with some shiny black pineapple fiber yarn from habu, that she had gotten at stitches. so i am feeling extraordinarily flush!
as for the freeform 365 project, it's funny how each of us gets in an "i like both of yours more than i like my own" rut every few days. it's also interesting to see in action one of the truisms i had always heard about writing; even when you THINK you are blatantly copying what another artist is doing, if you are a creative person yourself, it won't be at all obvious that you are doing so. after all, you never really know what someone else is "seeing" when they say "i love what you did there."
all very enjoyable, and motivating, so far.