April Check-in
Updates and Creative Goals check-in
In this post:
Welcome
Goals Check-in
Fibre Art
Artwork/Drawing
Social Posting
General thoughts
Sign off
What’s up??
Nearly! I’ve nearly made a post each of the past three months on the 18th! But, I’m a day of this month, oops. It’s currently the 19th of April, and I’m already wearing my beanie, fingerless gloves and oversized jumper!
Goals Check-in!
Have I made progress??… and a bit of a change up in the goals!
Experiment with Fibre art: I’m clustering crochet, knitting and embroidery goals together. Last month I mentioned the “I-cord tool” I got. Well, I still haven’t grasped how to use the thing yet haha. That and there has been no knitting as I’ve been focusing heavily on crochet, with some embroidery! Crochet I’ve had a few birthday presents to focus on recently. One is done and given, the second is still in the making and late! Oops! I’m very close though.
Oh! and there has been some embroidery, as I mentioned! I’ve been focusing on my patches again, they are very fun! Here below are 2 finished patches I made some time ago and a tooth patch in the making. I’m still very new to embroidery! But, my stitches are a mess most of the time but enjoy the slow pace of it. It’s nice to work on these again.
More abstract art: A little, but other things have been calling me lately. I feel like this goal should just be called “More art in general”. If that was the case then yes there has been a good few art moments, including me experimenting with the “Starter Pack” trend where artist draw themselves as an action figure with props. People started this trend by having AI to make them into an action figure but a lot of artists have taken it upon themselves to draw themselves instead, which I like so I joined in… here is my Starter Pack!…
Keep up with Socials & share more: I have been very “socially eh” lately. Flat maybe? Unlike last month, there has been no tiktok videos uploaded and minimal posts everywhere else. As I mentioned before, I’m even a day late making this stack post. It’s not like I don’t have the ideas for thing such as short from videos like tiktoks and shorts. It’s like I just don’t have the motivation or drive.
That being said I haven’t made any progress on that “routine” or “guide” for myself for posting on socials, and I feel this may really help. So maybe I should focus on that. But, really - I do all this art and craft and sharing it for me and my mental health. I have no pressure to post - it’s just fun.
I feel like I may need to revamp my goals somewhat to make them a bit more specific. Recently I started rehashing the principles of drawing and going back to basics. So maybe I should add something about that. I’ll see. Right now it just seems to be: Do more craft, do more art and post more to socials. I’ll have a think for next time :)
Last months post I said “Hopefully I will have another post out on or around 18th April!” and yes this post *is* around the 18th so …. win?!
Thanks for reading!
A cold but cosy Lellie - signing off xx