Everyone is creative
Yes...even you
Everyone is creative…yes even you at the back shaking your head. I see you.
I have just seen a post on another platform talking about how only a select few have a ‘crafty spirit’ and honestly I couldn’t disagree more.
I firmly believe everyone has the potential to be creative, whether they realise it or not. I see so many knitters dismiss their creative skills because they are ‘just following a pattern’. But every item you make has your own stamp of creativity on it.
Yes, you might have bought the pattern and followed it but you carefully selected the yarn, the buttons, the modifications along the way. All of the tiny decisions thatcombine to make that handmade item truly yours, truly unique.
If that isn’t the very definition of creativity I don’t know what is.
A true story for you
I spent years thinking I couldn’t be creative because an art teacher told me how rubbish I was at art when I was about 12. I made a very bad papier mache cow that still haunts my dreams to this day.
I couldn’t wait to drop art and revelled in being a science girl all the way. No creativity for me, thank you very much. I was far too busy doing science and being important.
But now, fast forward to the present day and I make a living by selling knitting patterns and writing about it - with over 100 patterns published to my name, a blog that goes back 10 years and coming up on 3 years of Substack posts.
I still can’t draw to save my life and don’t ask me to make an animal out of plasticine - but I can take needles and wool and create something brand new and beautiful.
And I believe that anyone else can do that too - sometimes you just need a little push.
I created a 45-page e-book to help people get in touch with their creative side, or to give it a bit of a boost for those flat-feeling times. It sells for £10 but if you use the code CREATIVE25 at checkout you’ll get 20% off the purchase price.
Paid subscribers get it for free, so if you’d like to subscribe and get this along with all the other benefits of membership you would be very welcome indeed. Just tap the button below for all the details.
I truly believe that if you can say "I wonder what happens if ..." then you can consider yourself creative. I'm currently knitting a sock from a pattern that has 40,000+ projects on Ravelry. And I can guarantee that mine is unique.
I’ve always thought that there are different ways to be creative. I feel like there is a space for creativity in everything. Science and the natural world is just as creative as the world of painting and drawing. I’ve been seeing someone doing fractal crochet on facebook and it’s very cool!