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| Skein of plied Coopworth yarn, ready to dye - or knit. |
1. I did my first successful plying of two yarns into one. I wasn't displeased with the result. When I get a few more skeins I will think about dyeing them. What would be your favorite mitten color? Bright blue? Red? A balmy green?
2. I'm about ready for fall any time now. Not found
of unrelenting heat during the days. Of course when it cools off I'll
complain then, too. So it goes.
3. I got a new poetry book and I'm excited by the possibilities. What books inspire you?
4. Still mining for diptych ideas for a woodblock
print. I've sharpened my tools, and flipped through my sketchbook.
Wavering between a traditional 'Annunciation' and plow horses at the
moment.
5. I was reading a study that said handwriting out
information may encode it in our brain better than just typing it into
the computer. Do you find this to be true? I hand write out poems 50
percent of the time, hardly ever for short stories. Would they be better
all handwritten out first and typed in later? Might be experiment
time.
6 comments:
Hey! The yarn is very cool. Turquoise blue mittens. Definitely.
Now, what was the new book? I'm reading Cooked by Michael Pollan right now and it's inspiring me to reconsider how I grill at the moment.
Handwriting does help me remember better than typing most of the time; I usually hand-write poems in the first draft. Worthy experiment....
Ha! Great minds think alike. I have some turquoise mittens with thrums in them. Very, very warm. And oh so nice to look at in the gloom of winter.
I'm reading The Crafty Poet by Diane Lockward. Lots of good poetry exercises and inspiration for writing. I wrote two poems last night off of two exercises and I am not displeased with them. I hand wrote them. Debating what incarnation they should be in before I move to computer...
The yarn looks gorgeous.
It would make sense that handwriting might be recorded differently in the brain, because it uses different motor skills compared with typing. Or perhaps something to do with handwriting being learned in childhood, whereas typing tends to be learned later - though that might be different for today's children.
I tend to draft in longhand and then type up, editing at the same time, but that's more to do with making use of odd scraps of time when I can pick up a pencil and paper but not the computer.
I think it's interesting - I can print very well but my handwriting is lousy, so writing out stuff is a chore sometimes. I'm just not sure if writing straight on to the computer inhibits the creative process or not.
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