Oh wow, thank you for sharing your story with me 😊🥰🫂

❤️ thank you for sharing your feedback with me! If you would like to continue the conversation about creativity, please feel free to join my group on Facebook, Spin, Dye, and Create with Alanna Wilcox facebook.com/groups/spindyeandcreate/

Oh wonderful!!! How excellent to have that space and time to explore your creativity. Please join my Facebook group to come and share what you've created, I would love to see it 💕

I feel you. Just looking at your material can be overwhelming. I used to ask myself: and now what. But my teacher said: take a few pieces, and just start. Baby steps, baby steps. All the best with ur new adventure

Starting is no problem for me but finishing things is. Can we get together and meet in the middle somehow. 😂❤❤

🥰 most welcome, would love to see what you create!

Try to pick projects that are not outcome oriented but more process oriented. For example I like to weave with black warp and challenge myself to explore texture, color, an emotion etc in the space between where the weaving ended and the next segment. Offering up your creative time to playing can be very liberating. Feel free to report back if you try!

Glad you enjoyed it! Would love to see what types of projects you create :) You can post them in my Facebook group or send me an email to keep me posted!

There's a thing that's real called choice overwhelm and it can really stiffle us. You're more than welcome to join my Facebook group, "Spin, Dye, and Create with Alanna Wilcox" if you'd like to belong to a no pressure, encouraging, creative community of fiber artists and crafters on Facebook 😊

My ideas are often way beyond my skill level. An example is I wanted to embroider butterflies and got friggen fsilk floss and made a huge frustrating tangle and gave up. I just went to a market and was delighted to see a lady has made them on her digital embroidery machine which she programmed the butterflies to actually be like rela species of butterflies with back and front of the wings done to reality ..unfortunately she didn't use silk thread which would hsve been perfection itself... it took me years to even get a machine that would tske the width of the floss without breaking snd I couldn't afford a digital or even embroidery machine I just got sewing machines...sigh...its a lot to make all that happen to just make a butterfly. But I'm glad she didn't give up and had the money to invest in it. Maybe I'll try again some day. But what I cannot actually do ohsyically often disappoints me so much it just makes me sad. I have these ideas but don't hsve the money or space to do the things. I've been getting scraps of blankets and made a rug it took me four months instead of four hours like my friend who made one. So that also made me feel quite disabled... its hard to feel good when we also get to see so many amsxing people. Like I might be the best at something in my village but knowing somone already does it better in a factory in India for cheaper than it would cost me to even get basic tools or materials...thats also disheartening.

Most welcome! I have other lectures on my website about how to approach working with color too and lots of other fun conversations about fiber and creativity during the fiberside chats that were uploaded on my yt channel too! 😁 would love to hear what it inspires you to create!

Cheers😁 you should join my Facebook group so you can share the stuff you like to make. It's called Spin, Dye, and Create with Alanna Wilcox and all are welcome!

@@spinnybuns Thanks, I’ll check it out! I’ll also subscribe to your channel.

Cheers! 🥰🥰

Most welcome! Let me know if you use one for a future project!

🥰 thanks! We discuss a lot of creative ideas in my Facebook group, Spin, Dye, and Create with Alanna Wilcox if you'd like to join us you're most welcome to! If you're not a FB fan, I'd still love to hear how your projects turn out after considering these points 😁

What do you hope to do with fiber? I would say to take classes so you know what you need vs don't and what's good for one end use may be different than for another.

I get all of my fibers from yard sales, second hand stores and the outgoing donation boxes of friends. Material can be sewn, torn, cut into free fibers or twisted strands can be spun into ropes and strings. The sky is the limit when it comes to the creative possibilities. Don’t get too hung up on the perfect ingredients. Just make something! Have fun

The beauty of making art is that it really doesn't matter what other people think ;)