Creator appreciation

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. From what I’ve read about this week’s challenge, it seems that this was originally aimed at giving appreciation for games developers. Well, I don’t really play games or like them, but I have a huge amount of appreciation for anyone who creates things that I do enjoy. Often I’d use this type of post to wax lyrical about DS106 and the Daily Create, but with my whole month of Blaugust being spent blogging my responses to the TDC I wanted to take this post in a different direction. As anyone who knows me will tell you, I am an avid knitter. I always have at least one pair of socks on my needles – this is my current pair (they’ll be an Xmas present for my sister, the Rev Polly): Socks flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Knitting socks like these are great for times when I just need to keep my hands busy, but they’re not challenging. So as…