Crafty Tuesday Failure can lead to Success
Or so they say.
When I start creating something, I have an idea in my head that I want to bring out of my head and into this realm.
There are times that I can do that and there are other times that I end up changing what I was doing because it just wasn’t working.
I have a box….OK three boxes of parts that just didn’t make it. Puppets that never were finished because they were not what I was trying to make. On occasion I will go through the box and pull something that didn’t work and use that to create something new.
Some stuff does end up in the recycling bin or out in the trash because it will never work. But I have hung onto that odd eyeball or limb that I know in the back of my head will be useful down the road.
It is through my failures that I learn. My steam ripper and I can be really close when I sew things backwards or one side one way and the other side the opposite. Sometimes it is easier to just redraft the piece and start again than the time it takes to rip out the seam.
I have come up with some sewing techniques from serious errors. Especially when making dresses for puppets.
Overtime those failures become less and less because I have done something so many times that my hands move pretty much automatically through the activity. Which is why I have gotten making one puppet down to four hours including hair and simple clothes. It has taken me many years to get to this point.
I think my point is that practice does make perfect or closer to perfect than not practicing. And errors are not necessarily the end of a project.
So fail but don’t let that stop you from continuing to create. Eventually your failures to you will be successes to others.
I am grateful for my failures and what I have learned from them.
When I start creating something, I have an idea in my head that I want to bring out of my head and into this realm.
There are times that I can do that and there are other times that I end up changing what I was doing because it just wasn’t working.
I have a box….OK three boxes of parts that just didn’t make it. Puppets that never were finished because they were not what I was trying to make. On occasion I will go through the box and pull something that didn’t work and use that to create something new.
Some stuff does end up in the recycling bin or out in the trash because it will never work. But I have hung onto that odd eyeball or limb that I know in the back of my head will be useful down the road.
It is through my failures that I learn. My steam ripper and I can be really close when I sew things backwards or one side one way and the other side the opposite. Sometimes it is easier to just redraft the piece and start again than the time it takes to rip out the seam.
I have come up with some sewing techniques from serious errors. Especially when making dresses for puppets.
Overtime those failures become less and less because I have done something so many times that my hands move pretty much automatically through the activity. Which is why I have gotten making one puppet down to four hours including hair and simple clothes. It has taken me many years to get to this point.
I think my point is that practice does make perfect or closer to perfect than not practicing. And errors are not necessarily the end of a project.
So fail but don’t let that stop you from continuing to create. Eventually your failures to you will be successes to others.
I am grateful for my failures and what I have learned from them.