Got Style?

This is our Tuesday Tip from The Welcome Mat today.

Got Style?

Want to have a recognizable style unique to you?

When you throw down your hooked rug we will all know it's yours immediately.

This is easier to achieve than you think.

It takes action:

Sit down at your frame every day, show up.

Hook just as you please. No apologies for your winsome ways.

Do small studies and sketches.

Critique each day. Is it as beautiful as you imagined?

Correct it

Repeat.

After about a month of two of this steady work you will see some important movement towards your style.

You will also have gorgeous studies you can develop into larger works whenever you like.

Avoidance:

Things you probably shouldn't do during this period:

take your work to be gazed upon and commented on by other hookers unless you are thick skinned

ask for a critique

take hooking classes

use somebody else's pattern

look a lot at others rugs, it doesn't matter what they've made.

Nurturing

Things you can do during this period:

Observe closely that which you think about with pleasure and kindles your heart

Take in inspirational things that create vivid spark in your soul

Have plenty of experiences and love flowing in and out

Free yourself from your beliefs that impede what you want, cut ties, burn bridges, stand erect and alone if you must

Go towards the people and places that support you

Have kindness and acceptance for the style in you and how it emerges

Remind yourself of your incredible potential every 1/4 of the day - Morning, Noon, Evening, Night

Have perseverance, even the ugliest of things we make work towards our beautiful

Accept, respond lovingly, continue to work EVERY DAY

What will be possible?

Terrifyingly exciting isn't it?

But oh so welcome.

What do you think? Yay or nay?

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