How does creativity work for you? Is it fresh and ready each time you choose a pattern or fabrics? Or do you have to work at finding the spark again when you're starting a new project or you've been working on a quilt for a while?
Often, a spark is all it takes to reset our brains.
Does your creative process include procrastination? Why is it so hard to get re-started after a project’s completion or when circumstances change? I'm thinking about creativity and my creative process.
I'm sure you love going to quilt shops. But, when you open the door and step over the threshold, are you overwhelmed by all the fabrics? There are too many possibilities! Come have a look at some ways to Prep before you head off to the quilt shop, and a Perspective to use when you arrive.
Creativity takes many forms, from designing your own quilts to choosing your own fabrics for someone else's pattern, to painting or sculpting or writing. We don't have to see color and fabric in the same way in order to create amazing quilts.
It all starts with the fabric. While on vacation in Northern Ireland I learned a bit about the linen industry there. For a couple of hundred years, ending around the mid 1900’s, Northern Ireland was the perfect combination of climate to grow high quality flax and people to work all stages of the linen-making process.
