Spark Creativity Journey in SLC

I have a very cool new creative event to share with you today. I just learned about Spark. I can’t think of a better way to describe it than the way they do on the Spark blog: Spark is a two day creativity journey geared to energize, enthuse and SPARK your individual creative spirit and vision. Spark is for all creative women. Spark is for women who create in any way. Spark is for artists, for photographers, for musicians, for writers, for gardners, for decorators, for poets… Spark is for all types of creative women. As women we have a creative Spark within us, at Spark the Event we will cultivate, learn, share, extend, develop and be inspired to live a life creative…

*Spark*
Date: November 6 & 7th 2009
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
@ This Is The Place Venue
2601 East Sunnyside Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday: November 6th
Welcome to Spark! 12:00 p.m. ~Registration
1:30-5 p.m.~ Show & Tell:
**Spark your creativity with several artisans’ demonstrating their talents with hands-on mini class demos from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
dinner 7-8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Let the Shenanigans begin! Fun filled evening that will help you get your Spark on!
Let the party continue til midnight including our Spark Train, Get to know each other games & photo booth fun!

Saturday: November 7th
9:00 a.m.~ Amazing Keynote Speaker: Cassandra Barney.
A woman artist who speaks to our creative souls! We are sure she will Spark our creative spirits! We can’t wait!

10-6 p.m.~ 4 fabulous classes
(Including lunch and snacks)
Dinner
8:00 Show & Tell & a culminating fireside to Kindle the Spark!

Venue: This is the Place Venue
2601 East Sunnyside Ave
Salt Lake City, Utah

Cost: $300
Includes all Spark creative goodness for the 4 classes, goodie bag, all your food and snacks for both days.
(Hotel will be extra.)

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I am always a fan of stash busting projects that allow you to use all the little bits and pieces left from other projects or the balls of yarn you just aren’t sure what to do with. And if you can use a fun technique along the way, so much the better.

ChiWei Ranck’s Natural Bridges Shawl is a pattern like that. It uses a bunch of bits of fingering/sock weight yarn melded together with garter stitch intarsia.

This is a variation of a pattern called Natural Formations, which is a scarf design by Ann-Marie Baker. This design makes a mini triangular shawl, and ChiWei’s design combines two of these little shawls into a bigger project, bridging them together.

You’ll need the original Natural Formations pattern to make this project. It’s available on Ravelry, and the instructions for making the bigger version are available as a free download.

It’s so fun to me to see people take a different spin on a project or technique and make a very different looking project. I love the bigger version but the mini scarf by itself is cute, too. You could make a small one to use in spring and summer and then make a bigger one for colder weather.

Either way, you’ll be able to use lots of leftovers or mini skeins. The original scarf used six minis, and Natural Bridges uses six for each scarf half and six more for the bridge, so 18 mini skeins or leftovers from other projects can be used, which sounds pretty great to me.

I love the scrappy look of this project, and even though the original was planned to use specific mini skeins, it’s a great way to use up bits of stash or those advent calendar minis you never know what to do with. A couple of bold colors thrown in with a more muted palette is a lot of fun, or you could even do it in tonal shades if you have lots of leftovers in similar colors.

[Photo: ChiWei Ranck]

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