Being Creative - in 15 minute bursts

I love being creative, either with yarns, fabrics or art materials.  However it does seem to be a struggle to fit this into my life at the moment.  Although I try to spend a couple of days a week at my knitting machine, this is often producing garments that I've already worked out the patterns for, or doing admin tasks that so easily absorb all your time.    Even though I have a reminder on my computer that the last Friday afternoon of the month is 'Creative Afternoon' I still seem not to be able to just let go and play and get new ideas.


So I welcomed being included in a Facebook group, organized by Myfanwy Hart, called Be Creative, alongside her blog createaday2014.wordpress.com

This built on her idea that you can be creative in 15 minute bursts, rather than thinking you have to devote hours, and consisted of Prompts throughout last weekend, some arty, some involving thinking, and even one involving cooking.  You could pick and choose as to the ones that appealed to you, and post the results on the facebook page.

I was really surprised and happy that I managed to do a number of the prompts on Friday, in amongst knitting a couple of pieces.  Saturday was taken up by housework and a visit to the RHS Garden at Hyde Hall, but then I managed to do more on Sunday.  It was great to get so much instant feedback (like being back at college which I just miss), and see how everybody interpreted the prompts differently.

It also proved to me that my art materials are in a mess, and if I tided them up it would be easy to do 15 minutes a day.

Haven't done so much this week, but I did manage this morning to translate one of the samples onto a knitted piece, which has potential I think for developing into a finished garment.

The idea is that this could happen once a month throughout the year, and I feel it has been a great way to get my creative mojo back.