hooking from suzen green on Vimeo.
See, the thing about hooking a mat is that it appeals to my obsessive side. It’s a lot like eating those free baskets of homemade potato chips at the Hotel lounge on Rue de la Montagne off Ste. Catherine: the saltiness and creepy onion taste makes you want to drink more which in turn makes you want to eat more chips. A vicious and highly dehydrating cycle that won’t stop until some outside/uncontrollable force makes it stop. In the case of those hotel lounge chips, usually the end of Happy Hour means no more chips and no more cheap drinks so everyone heads home. When it comes to hooking a mat, the only thing that has been forcing me to stop are my hands as they kink up over the stress of holding a rug hook for five hours straight.
Needless to say, I think I am becoming a hooker. Ahem. Everything about this process has been so exciting for me because it’s coming to me as easily as knitting (but with a much shorter learning curve, thank goodness!). I’ve always been able to produce exactly what I want with knitting. I get an idea, do a little sketch, and start knitting. When everything is done, it looks pretty much exactly the way I was expecting. For me, knitting is a given. What really excites me is that mat hooking is going along that same path. I think I have found another way to work (and another way to totally destroy my hands with repetitive stress injuries…sigh).
Anyway. Even though I’m so excited about hooking a mat, I’ve decided to step away from it for just a little while. I have a lot of other things to do and mat hooking has become a pretty good diversion from more pressing matters. Like working on a presentation/paper about Liza Lou and Janet Morton. One of the easy things about this presentation topic is that I did a lot of research/writing about these ladies in undergrad, I just have to come up with a more critical approach to reading the work (my biggest struggle). The fun part with that is I’m crocheting cookies for the potluck part of the presentation, continuing my pattern of bringing in food that people can’t eat. Heh.
4 Responses to “Listening to music about AB while hooking a mat about NL.”
It’s pretty cool to watch the evolution of your work through the blog. I’m enjoying it!
This is so neat. Thanks for giving me virtual tendonitis, too!
My hands would die, but I love it that you’re soldiering on with this!
Hey, found you I think by way of the Radio3 blog, that is if you are ‘sharkseason’? I am of course “tb3″.
At any rate, you do really cool stuff!
Haha thanks!