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Astounded

As is so often the case in our blog entries, we are astounded by Other People's Creativity. Not for us those blogs or books that denigrate a certain level of art or arts and crafts. We choose to never acknowledge criticism and believe there is nothing that cannot be rendered finer with a little needlework. It's all good to us, because creativity in all its forms is CREATIVE, and we are, as we said, astounded! Frequently! and joyfully!

If you would like to be astounded by Other People's Creativity, behold the following Crochet Swan Centres. What glorious mind conceived this? We (me and my dogs) bow three times in their direction. Truly divergent. And it gives us all sorts of ideas. Yesssssss.

And from Novica, in a whole 'nother direction: Neide Ambrosio's crocheted soda-pop-top purses and belts. Brilliant.

We'd like to say more on the topic of creativity; we're vaguely troubled by bloggish decrees about what should and should not be knitted/crocheted/tatted/what-have-you. But we are tired because we've been writing proposals all summer. So we'll just fill up this part of this entry with Other People's Deep Thoughts and assure you we are wishing you all kinds of happiness.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing,
but the making something out of it after it is found. --James Russell Lowell

and

Once you can accept the universe as matter
expanding into nothing that is something, wearing
stripes with plaid comes easy. -- Albert Einstein

and

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. -- Frank Zappa

Is there crochet for knitters? We (me and my dogs, remember?) dunno. But we're going to see at CrochetMe!

Meanwhile, Mikey demonstrates how fast summer is flying by. Merry Thursday! Sieze the knitting. Or crocheting.