Mood Boards

Hello, Happy Friday! And for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, happy last full day of summer. Tomorrow officially begins the fall season, and although it's supposed to be stormy here, I don't care because I look forward to fall and all it brings and where it leads us.

One of the YouTube knitting podcasts I watch kind of regularly is Wool Needles Hands. The woman who is the host - Tayler - is really engaging, and seems so excited with whatever kinds of projects she tries. Recently, she has talked about finding your knitting style, and creating mood boards to support that. I found this to be really interesting, since I have recently started to become more aware of what might be called my knitting style, and though I know what a vision board is, I'd never heard of a mood board.

Which led me to wonder - what about you? Do you have a defined knitting style, and/or a mood board (or boards, I guess)? I guess you could say that Pinterest is a mood board, but though I have a Pinterest account, I tend to only fool with it on occasion. Anyway I was intrigued about mood boards, so I poked around online and among my friends.

My niece Amanda told me that after I asked, she realized that she "unintentionally" may have been making them. 😁 She said that for each new year, she makes a board of intentions/visions/moods/ideas for the coming year, and makes it her computer's home screen. And then she makes monthly collages and uses it as her phone's home screen. (She, like me, loves lists and such, and so I am not surprised that she does this.)

A couple of friends told me that each season, they create a group of colors and some images that they use as a guide for that season. One of them said that it keeps her from adding clothes to her closet that don't go well with anything else she already owns. I can see the value in that. Another said that it keeps her from buying things - clothes or household goods - that are "fancy" regardless how much she likes them. She told me that she has realized that her style is extremely casual. So when she buys something fancy because it appeals to her somehow, she either never actually wears it, or it goes in a closet because it looks weird with other things in her house.

So I can see the advantages here. And I have to say, I'm considering trying something for a lot of the reasons above, but also just for the grounding aspect of it. I do have a tendency to see something really different, or quirky, or just plain weird and become obsessed with it, even though I know deep inside it's not gonna work. 

When I looked up "mood board" on Google and on Pinterest, a lot of the examples were for help defining your "brand" (which makes me want to gag), or for interior design purposes.

This image is useful, I think, and the link to the article about it seems pretty straightforward.

This link showed some examples based on different topics, and the image below really made me want a cup of coffee! (Which is weird because I am not much of a coffee drinker at all!)

Anyway, this has given me a whole new rabbit hole to poke around and use as food for thought. Besides my current knitting and my book, I may have to delve a bit deeper tomorrow when it's too cold and rainy to be out and about.

Because why not add yet another way to make a kind of list to my life? Clearly the 23,907 ones I already have created physically and in my brain are not enough ... 😉

Have a good weekend, regardless of how you and your brain spend it, and I'll see you next week!