Different colored ‘hat’ spoolknitters….
September 11, 2007 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, spool knitter & spoolknitter, spool knitting and spoolknitting
Many years ago, I was inspired and moved by the books of Edward de Bono.
He invented the concept of ‘lateral thinking’.
I loved his book: Six Thinking Hats, but had forgotten about it, until today.
Lately, I have been making a lot of spool knitters that represent different colored hats.
Today, as I was painting the studio robin’s egg blue, I was thinking about how healing I find this shade of blue to be.
And, because I was rolling paint on walls, my mind was free to amble around.
I started mulling over a new spool knitter that I have been working on for a few days. I know that it is another ‘hat’ spool knitter, and have been feeling that it may well be a green or blue hat.
I have been feeling really overwhelmed lately about dealing with lots of stuff about moving and getting the house ready to sell and work and on and on…..
I felt compelled to sit down and start drawing on the new spool knitter.
As I was drawing, it struck me that I needed to just lighten up. That I was coming from a place of being really limited and small.
I needed to remind myself that we are all made up of the dust of the stars and that we all breathe the same air as the greatest (and least) of all humans and other co-inhabinants that have ever graced (or not) this beautiful blue planet.
So, to believe in being stuck and stumped is just not logical. Believing in the vastness of the human spirit makes soooooooooo much more sense!
That made me decide to include the sun and the moon and a few stars on her hat, and that her hat will be blue…. in fact, I’ll paint her hat with the studio wall paint.
And, that’s when I remembered Edward de Bono’s work.
Tell me. What color hat are you wearing today?
hugs all round,
Noreen
Well hats don’t suit me…but I know that isn’t what you are asking, let me put my thinking cap on….which is the hat that makes you think outside the square, that is what I want to do at the moment….when I made my spoolies, I know that I limited myself to their shape – and that is not what I think you do, Noreen – you start with a palette not a shape, is that right?
Hi Marion,
) Blessings and hugs
It’s not about hats at all…. the hats are a metaphor for living with consciousness and awareness, paying attention to the process of thinking. It’s all about looking at HOW we think, WHAT we think, WHY we think it, and then assessing whether or not all those thought systems are working for us. If not, what needs to change. If they are, then how can they be heightened.
So, my making a blue hat spoolie is not about me wearing a blue hat, it’s about thinking in a way that is spacious as the sky.
Noreen
I am wearing my happy hat now when I had started the day wearing the worry hat. I went to the endocrinologist today and put a lot of fears I had to rest. Also some things he said made so less fearful to hear the results of my CT scan on Friday. Me worrying about it won’t change what already is so I should just be happy in the moment and snatch those joys when I can!
hugs Karen
Oh, sometimes my hat is so black it is a mourning hat. But with spoolknitting and now knitting, (yes, I can do this and do it well, but more importantly it is so THERAPUTIC!!!), that my hat is sometimes, not always, but more and more, a lovely shade of violet with little pink rosebuds on it. And the sun is shinnning even sometimes!!
Thank you, again, dear, dear Noreen, for being such a big part of my creativity doors opening! Hugs and blessings and much love, Marianne
My thinking hat would be brown, green & yellow–a tree in the summer growing straight and tall in the sunlight–bringing shade and comfort and a home for birds and squirrels. (And the stray cats and the neighbors moocher cats that we feed.) My dreaming hat is as dark as the sky in the winter, when you can see Orion’s belt in the stars at night.
Wendy
Wow…. I am so touched by the poetic and heartfelt responses…. thank you thank you thank you!
I am responding privately to these comments….
hugs
Noreen