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Sep. 17th, 2010 11:46 amI have been bemoaning the fact that I moved down here and forgot to bring markers or any other sort of art supplies. Not that I sketch much, mind you, but I just like having them around.
It just dawned on me that the colored pencils that I use to mark my cross-stitch patterns are still totally valid for other applications. Which is really sad when you consider I bought them for an art class in the first place, and that when I first grabbed them for my x-stitch, I felt a little guilty using my 'good' pencils for that purpose.
We call that 'functional fixedness' in psychology, but that's got to be a special kind of it. That's like using a shoe to prop open a door and suddenly remembering it doubles as footwear.
It just dawned on me that the colored pencils that I use to mark my cross-stitch patterns are still totally valid for other applications. Which is really sad when you consider I bought them for an art class in the first place, and that when I first grabbed them for my x-stitch, I felt a little guilty using my 'good' pencils for that purpose.
We call that 'functional fixedness' in psychology, but that's got to be a special kind of it. That's like using a shoe to prop open a door and suddenly remembering it doubles as footwear.
