Monday, 13 June 2011

Conquering the beast

a day and half and eight bodies later, I think I might be getting somewhere.
I always knew the giraffe was going to be hard, but perhaps just not this hard.
It's been a while since I've been so completely stumped by a project.
Even when I wasn't "making it" so to speak, I was plagued by giraffe body thoughts.
Saturday night late I was ready to throw in the towel and resign to making a separate body and not a conjoined one like I wanted to.


But then at 1am 4 more brilliant ideas came to me, and Sunday morning arrived, and starting up again, my perfectionistic obsessive side kicked in- I would not be beaten by this body.
It may take me a while to regain my love of giraffe's however.
(the second image is my first and hopefully last handwritten crochet chart , it may make no sense what so ever to you- but I am immensely proud of it.)
hope you're having a great long weekend ( and normal weekend to those who don't have it)

8 comments:

m.e (Cathie) said...

you are sooo clever!! you WILL conquer the body I am sure.

that drawing looks like space invaders to me, very cool ♥

Tania said...

Are you kidding me? That crochet chart is ART!

Plushpussycat said...

I can feel it--you're going to do it! Your crochet chart is awesome, BTW!
Jennifer

Jennie said...

Oh wow - you are so clever to be able to do this Jess. Well done for pushing through the frustration. Do you feel like you're getting to the other side now? (both images are brilliant!)xx

Wendy said...

I think you can, I think you can...
xo,
w

Kate said...

holy crap, that chart is amazing!!
can you read it?
thanks for taking us along on this colab journey, it's super fun.

Kylie said...

I love your crochet chart Jess!! It really is art. Good on you for sticking with your giraffe - it's looking fabulous. Kx

Mare said...

You GO Jess! I know you can do it! (I cannot read those charts for all the tea in China!)