Pirtti

Diving into fall has gotten me thinking a lot about process. It can be unnerving trying to come up with a palette. It’s fun to pour over color cards and make choices, and then daunting trying to make the best matches of warp and weft. By matches, I mean the best mismatches.

My husband and I had an argument several years ago. As we were getting dressed to leave our apartment, I mentioned that I thought his green sneakers would look better with his outfit. He looked at me funny and said, “you mean my gray shoes?” “No, those are not gray, they are green.” (For the record they were a sage green gray.) What followed went on for days and then months… Me: “What color is that wall?” Him: “Gray.” Me: “Dude. That wall is blue.” Him: “Yes, it’s a gray with a lot of blue in it.” Although we still argue over the color of our couch, I have learned so much from our arguments. Mainly, there is rarely a flat color.

This fascinates me to no end and has changed how I look at everything. The more I look at the world around me, the more I see unexpected colors. Those colors are the ones that I am interested in.

I’ve had an idea in my head for months now. I’ve been really anxious to work on it – but with the move and all, it kept getting pushed aside. Now that we are settling in, it is resurfacing in my brain all the time. The problem is that it no longer feels right.

Since my studio time is very limited, most of my project planning happens in my head. I steal moments while watching my kids play, walking to and from various errands, falling asleep at night…I work my ideas through in my head over and over again until I know exactly what I want to do. When studio time becomes available I set the ideas into motion as quickly and efficiently as possible based on all that planning that has gone on in my noggin.

This idea that I have had has made it impossible to think of anything else. It doesn’t suit how I feel about living in SF, how I feel I myself might dress this spring, or in general what I want a scarf to accomplish. But it won’t leave my head. So I sat down, sketched it out with yarn, hung it on my bulletin board and got a rush of new ideas.

Process. It’s a beautiful thing. Sometimes you just have to put it out there so you can see it, touch it and move on.

Look for an early May shop update!