Hope you all had a wonderful Bank Holiday. For those in the US, I am so glad that hurricane Irene did not become any worse, but I am sending my prayers for those who suffered and I hope things will get back to normal soon. The world is going crazy at the moment so it is always good to be safer than sorry.
Today, I would like to talk about how you can get inspired from things that are ordinary but by looking at it from a different direction. While the weather is bad outside, why not find inspiration at home?
A standard cable swatch, but I am loving it.
Currently I am creating series of swatches for new designs. There are beautiful stitches around but I don’t usually choose an extremely difficult ones because I like my patterns to have a nice “rhythm” when one knits.
I always want to create something visually attractive yet fun to knit. To achieve this, I need to overcome minor obstacles in knitting: unlike sewing, you have to cast on-> knit -> cast off. This means you can’t just create a shape quickly – everything has to be carefully calculated.
So to make knitting look fresh and new, you have to look at things from a different direction:
It's not that I have a terrible eyesight (actually I do) but I am trying to find a secret message in this book by reading upside down.
So I try looking at things up-side-down.
What does the world look like from a cat-point-of-view?
I also try to think like something else (e.g. my cats). How do others look at things?
I may create something novel by sitting up-side down to knit.
I position myself differently. May be I see something differently too.
Do try this at home. You will find something you did not know at home. I have actually got lots of inspirations doing this (my husband was getting a bit worried LOL) and they will be in the new designs to come.
Hope you have a great week ahead!
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You are so cute, Kyoko!
But cuteness and funniness aside, you are right, there’s nothing like taking a different look at things that you see everyday! Glad to hear you got a lot of inspiration!
Hey Pili!
Hehe, Wesley was like “what on earth are you doing???” when i was taking the pics – and my cats were like “give my beds back!” LOL.
I was going through some knitting stitch patterns upside down and side ways. Then I found so many great inspirations from there.
Hope you had a great weekend! Cold in London.
x
Kyoko
hi Kyoko
how are you dear ???
lovely pictures and cute inspiration too !!!!
so, your work is always lovely and I love it so much !!
see you soon …
alex
Hello Alex,
How are you too? 
I am very well thank you
Hehe! I found inspirations everywhere when I sat up-side down LOL. Thank you so much for your lovely comment.
See you soon
x
Kyoko
Love it! You are so right Kyoko. My favourite thing to do is to look for inspiration in things that are nothing to do with knitting – buildings, photographs, food, music. Inspiration comes from the most unexpected places!
Hello Rosee!
Hehe! I totally agree. When you see something completely unrelated to knitting, your brain kinds of switch off, but then suddenly it switches on again when you see something inspiring.
Everywhere I run, I see people and different events around and I get lots of great ideas for knitting – it’s very cool (I am sure people see me as “struggling runner” (LOL) but I am actually enjoying looking at tourists, markets and stuff on Thames).
x
Kyoko
ToTally charming! It gave me a great smile. Irene WAS a pain in the neck, but at least we were not under water, fallen into a crack in the earth, or shoveling out form a blizzard. Amen.
Hello Skeindalous!
We had a massive gale today. The weather is going crazy around the earth at the moment. So glad that you are safe.
Thank you so much for the comment
x
Kyoko