Problems=Added Interest and Fun Challenges

So it is Jessica again. Today I had the whole day to work on stuff and I spent it going back and forth between creating a knitted pattern for the one outfit I am in charge of and coloring in sketches.

Now I am not sure how much detail anyone wants to read but I had a frustrating problem with both projects. It somehow skipped my mind that the paper you use for drawing is very important based on what media you want to use. Now usually I just use basic printer paper for my sketches and I use prisma color markers to color things in and occasionally I will use colored pencils as well to add texture. This time I thought that I should class up my paper selection so I grabbed an old sketch book and set to work. Now when the time came to finally color in the sketches I was supper excited until I started to work. The paper was made for pencil and charcoal sketching and markers reacted badly on the paper bleeding all over. Now although at first it felt like the end of the world because I had put so much time into each sketch I was able to make them look pretty decent with some colored pencil details and a finishing marker. I definitely have to cut them all out and remount them before we show the finished ones to anyone.

So when I hit that problem I switched to the knitting project which was fun for awhile until I remembered that I have the bad habit of pushing down on the needle every time I take a stitch off. I had developed a callous before but it has been awhile since I have really knitted for a long uninterrupted stretch so the tip of my finger is quite sore at the moment.

Even though this post seems like I'm complaining I would like to say that today was still an awesome day. The problems added another layer of interest to the projects I was working on and the sense of accomplishment on fixing the drawing after almost ruining it was pretty awesome. The sore finger just adds a challenge to keep knitting and work up that callous again. (And who knows maybe the unconscious sucking of my sore finger will appear sexy to people. :) j/k)

Well I need to head to bed back to my other job tomorrow.