Invite To Colors

Bright colors are big inspirations in my creative work. Here is some of it knitted.

I was invited by Dorien to join a blog hop. The fact that it is all about creating made me join it. Thank you for inviting me Dorien.

So here we go - I am suppose to answer four questions about my creative work. Lets get moving.

What am I working on

From left: Nearly finished a new Viajante (and a polymer clay bird), a big shawl on my needles and the butterfly scarf.

The biggest fun in the creating process is starting something new and getting it finished. I love working on my projects but those two elements are the ones that makes me get most of what I start finished. My sixth Viajante is soon finished. 

The big shawl in the middle is a long term project I will be working on for some time and the butterfly scarf should be finished. But all things comes in waves and I knit what I like at the moment. 

Also, I make some jewelry and birds in polymer clay too. Not a lot - but enough to keep the clay feeling in my hands. I wish I could do more of just claying.

How does my work differ from others in the genre

Simple bracelets in polymer clay to fit any garment and brightens up a cold winters day.

Well, that is really hard for me to say something clever about. If I should base it on the comments I get here and on Ravelry it must be the color use and the "out of the box" way of creating. And that I am not afraid of wearing colors. But then again - a lot of creative people think the same way.

From this time of the year and until May there are mostly gray, brown and black colors all over. I wear the colors that makes me look better - and really do not bother about what others may think of just that. Does this makes sense? Or have you seen something else here? 

Why do I create what I do

I love experimenting with colors. Colorful Thirties holds 30 colors.

I simply love it. It hits a string in me that is not playable in any other way.

I express myself in my creating and the fact that I can wear both my knitted garments and my jewelry makes me feel happy.

It makes me feel free in a way that is impossible to explain. And I want to hit a nerve in the conformity we are living under - Norway is the most conform country in Europe. And start fighting that is never ever too late.  

How does my creative process work

My first cardigan in bright colors, Jacket of Colors.

I get inspired all over. From books, other people, online activity and from bright colors. Or even the lack of colors - if I se a whole shop full of gray clothes a design can hit my brain.

That is what happened when I designed my scarf Dot The I. And when flipping trough an autumn catalog from Rauma some years ago I came up with my first stranded project in bright colors, Heartwarming scarf,  without using gray, white or black.

Polymer clay earrings in bright colors.

Or I simply has to try out different color combinations. I do not like swatch knitting - I knit a large scarf instead. 

That is how one of my favorite scarves came to life. I used stash yarn and 16 colors to create my first Lifelines - and the colors went on changing regarding what other color it was put beside.

Yes, sounds crazy but it gives me a lot of fun scarves to wear. 

I have knitted a lot of shawls and scarves to test out the colors. They work in such different ways when they are put together. 

The knowledge of that learn me to put colors together in garments like sweaters and cardigans like my Sheepomania. And also makes a difference how I create in polymer clay. To be creative is like breathing - one simply has to do it to live.

Bird bracelet in rainbow colors on left. Polymer clay disk bracelet and scarf with rings on right.

 Knitting and making jewelry in polymer clay are my creative joy in life.

Polymer clay bracelets on left. And my knitted cat cardigan on right.