A smidge of knitting, a dash of Italy and a truckload of photos.

I follow instructions.

Recipes, sewing patterns, knitting instructions;
heck, even for Ikea cupboards...

I work better given formulas and specific amounts.

"Winging it" or "making it up as I go along" in not really in my nature.

I am not sure if this is because I studied the science subjects at school

or why I studied science at school.

But I suspect the need for structure came with my personality.

(I do remember, however, having to make it up as I went along in Italy

when, as navigator to hubby's chauffeur, 

I was presented with the dilemma of a red light with a "green straight ahead" arrow

right next to it.

I can't remember what we did at the time

but my memory of driving in Italy is that you drive how you want but with excessive confidence

and she'll be right, mate)



As a creative person,
I am frustrated by my inability to fulfill that part of the creative process.

It isn't that I don't want break out and rebel.
Heck, I have even ditched a couple of sewing pattern instructions recently,
thinking that I could do it a bit better.

And I can boil an egg without a recipe. Promise.

But me making things up would appear to be a (wait for it) recipe for disaster
(Oh, c'mon- you just can't beat a good pun)

It is just the way my brain works.
But I really do envy those people with the confidence and the talent
to create patterns and make up recipes.

But I guess they need customers, don't they?

Squishy Love- Amanda Keeys
modified (yes, modified) by the highly technical method
of using bulkier wool and bigger needles.