I am working on the second pair of baby booties, blue for a boy this time. I could just whip up another pair just like the pink ones, but if I am going to give these as a gift I want this baby to having something original and unique just as with the pink ones for the first baby.

I have started and frogged the blue bootie at least ten times already. I work out a design idea in my mind, knit it up, don't like it, and tear it back apart again. At one point I was very near completion on the first bootie when I decided that I didn't like it and ripped it apart. I have once again started yet another incarnation of this blue bootie.

Starting with a basic idea for a design and then working through it, making adjustments here and there, and ultimately coming up with a finished product that I can call my own can be an exercise in creativity, joy, anger, and frustration. I do enjoy the process een though there are times that I get so frustrated with a project that I just have to set it down and walk away from it for a little while.

Even when I step away from it I am still working through it in some dark little corner of my alleged mind. Sometimes an idea just suddenly pops into the fore of my thought with an "Aha! That's it!" and I'll go back at it again. Sometimes I just have to go back to it with a methodical and mathematical approach combined with what very tiny amount of artistic vision I possess.

Despite it all, everything I have just written is exactly what makes it fun.