Random Realizations
Nov. 30th, 2012 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteI never thought of it in these terms, but when I was writing about game-editing a few days ago I had a realization - when it comes to hobbies and crafts, I far prefer projects that involve creating to projects that involve changing.
I like spinning and crocheting - making yarn, making the fabric of an item, worlds more than I like sewing - cutting a fabric that already exists and turning it into something else. I like cooking, but I like baking much, much more - it feels more like creating when I'm transforming random things like flour and sugar into a cake than it does when I'm just turning raw meat into cooked meat. I've tried my hand at things like altered books, but I've never felt entirely comfortable with the process as a craft.
It's an interesting way to categorize projects, and I'm kind of curious about the why. I think it mostly comes down to the fact that when I'm changing something, I always have the niggling worry that I might just wind up making things worse. That the finished product won't be as good as someone else could have made from the original material, or that it just won't be as good as the original material itself. When I'm creating something completely new, whether it's good or not, there's no original item to compare it to.
I have no idea where I'm going with, or what the point of it is, but it just occurred to me as a curious observation and something to keep in mind as I inevitably hunt down future hobbies....
I like spinning and crocheting - making yarn, making the fabric of an item, worlds more than I like sewing - cutting a fabric that already exists and turning it into something else. I like cooking, but I like baking much, much more - it feels more like creating when I'm transforming random things like flour and sugar into a cake than it does when I'm just turning raw meat into cooked meat. I've tried my hand at things like altered books, but I've never felt entirely comfortable with the process as a craft.
It's an interesting way to categorize projects, and I'm kind of curious about the why. I think it mostly comes down to the fact that when I'm changing something, I always have the niggling worry that I might just wind up making things worse. That the finished product won't be as good as someone else could have made from the original material, or that it just won't be as good as the original material itself. When I'm creating something completely new, whether it's good or not, there's no original item to compare it to.
I have no idea where I'm going with, or what the point of it is, but it just occurred to me as a curious observation and something to keep in mind as I inevitably hunt down future hobbies....
