Designing inspiration...

How do I come up with the designs? 

Honestly, the designs come to me in different ways.

I am currently working on a swan. The idea for him was from a picture I saw online. It was a picture of a cabinet, with what appeared to be a knick-knack of a swan on it, I drew it out on paper. After getting a closer look of the item on the cabinet, turns out it was just a ordinary vase.  So it appears I see things that aren't there. LOL!

Here is another one.. 

My hubby has a old flip phone and on this phone the front has worn off. 

I'm sure not everyone will see what I see but I see an alien.

As you can see my vision came out different but the wear on the phone is what inspired it.

And then there are moments when I draft out something like my recent gnome and all of a sudden I am on a new piece of paper drafting one after another of animals to do in a series using the same base design.

For me you just never know where the inspiration is going to come from, I thought it was this and it turned out to be that, weird shapes that look like something or a base design that multiplies itself into different animals.

Happy crocheting!