Another thing I need to keep in mind about projects is: Just make the thing you want to make, even if it requires learning on your feet.
I tend to fall in a “prototype trap” a lot, where I have an idea for what I really want to make but am unsure it’ll turn out, so I make a prototype to prove that my idea could work…. and then I have no energy/motivation left to make what I really wanted to make and am stuck with a prototype that may have proven a theory but isn’t exactly what I wanted.
This is a lot like my developing theory of Unwise Sewing–I can save the tests and prototypes for things that are more serious, but I should jump straight into the really weird stuff that I won’t want to make multiple iterations of to get right…in part because there is no “right” to it, there’s just giddy giggling once it’s done, because it is so out of my usual sewing that even “it didn’t turn out exactly like I expected” is still “it turned out ridiculous” and that’s good
(via dollsahoy)
