I think my creative process actually draws a lot on monkey mind. I appreciate that some people become monomaniacally engaged by one thing at a time, but that is just not me. As I am working on one thing, my mind is gayly tripping about swinging from one possibility to another, some of which I will later follow in some detail, others of which will simply fall back into the great pool of unrealized possibilities. I am still working along on Medea, now working on the long stretch that leads to the center motif, which has yet to be mapped out. Now there are people who design using elegant drawings and all, but that is not me. I have piles of graph paper and lines going here and there as I try to see what I can do within the space I have to do it in and in the shape I want. This is one of many attempts to see how to transition into the center. I kinda sorta think I have figured it out so tonight I will work on actually making a chart and see.
Meanwhile, other yarns and other patterns also call me.
I wearied of the high drama over the Mystery Lace KAL -- life is too short to deal with moving from group to group and emails about conspiracies. I do this to have fun. So I frogged the one and only clue and am now contemplating what I want to use this pretty yellow Yubina cashmere for --
And I have this very nice raspberry merino from Colourmart which is actually Baruffa Cashwool --
I think I like it for either Secret of Bad Nauheim or the Slow-Bee2. Don't know about the beads though -- those are clear AB and look nice on just about anything.
Finally, I have this white cashmere and linen from Colourmart that just seems to scream summer to me. I think it will be for whichever pattern I don't use the raspberry for.
Letting myself play with other yarns and other patterns makes space for issues in the Medea pattern get worked out in the back of my mind, along with the paper I am simmering back there. I know it is a way of working that wouldn't work for everyone but it seems to be good for me. That's my story ad I am sticking to it.
on edit: eh, I have looked at finished Secrets of Bad Nauheim and I am underwhelmed. Maybe something from Victorian Lace Today?