Out of Juice

I've got several wonderful projects sitting, ready to go. One is even halfway cut out and is the easiest little lap quilt on earth. But I can't seem to make anything happen. My beading and embroidery project is just sitting staring at me. I'm trying to get ready for this "Girls night out" I'm giving for the LQS, but they've been pretty rude about the whole thing and I'm already sick of that.

I think I'm not going to try to sew anything, cut anything, stitch or.....(gasp!!) even buy anything for a while. I'm truly out of creative juice. Or even uncreative juice. I can't seem to find any enthusiasm for quilting or stitching or the like. I'm about to go stack stuff in neat little stacks in my sewing room and then maybe find a good book to read for the next week or so. My muse has flown off to Argentina -- think she said something about meeting a politician down there. (snark -- couldn't help it)

I'm gonna keep on expecting the rest of you to post gorgeous photos of your inspired work. But I'm not going to try to be quilty for a while.

Prayers and happy dances, of course, will continue. No creativity needed for either of those happy activities.

Hugs, Sunny

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Sunny
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I lost my muse at Xmas and to be honest, haven't really done a creative thing since. I've done stuff, but stuff that didn't require any particular spark. Happened once beforew when Mom died and it came back then. So I'm assuming it will come back again. I try to 'finish' things just to keep moving forward. And I've got stacks of fabric and patterns sitting around, just waiting for the green light. I've learned to surrender and just go with the flow on this. It's alright. Don't beat yourself up. joan

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joan8904

This happens to us all (most) I think. It is your northern summer too. I find in our southern summer, I have a rest from creative stuff, just enjoy the swimming and a hit of tennis and long outdoor lunches. Read novels without the guilt feeling! Enjoy! Hugs back at ya Bronnie

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Bronnie

Ah, Sunny.... after not being able to quilt at all for about 3 years, I started again at the beginning of this year. I was on a roll and then suddenly went pfffftttt. So frustrating. I have tons of fabric, lots and lots of magazine clippings for ideas, batting, everything-- including two days free. l But it took me more than four hours of concentrated searching to find something--anything!-- to start on. I'm committed to having a Quilt of Valor in progress, so *finally found one I thought I could handle. (I couldn't even bring myself to put any of four tops and backing ready for quilting on the frame). I don't feel at all inspired, but hoping to get more enthusiastic as it goes along. Feels like having writer's block! Since I've been whining to DH about not getting enough practice time on the frame, he encouraged me to get a baby panel or some fabric I didn't adore on there and play, but even that sounded unappealing.

So. I decided I would do a Carpenter's Wheel as a QOV and am putting it together. I seem to get inspired more when I'm working on something else and can't possibly start on it.

We'll see how it goes.

Hugs to you, too.

--Heidi

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heidi (was rabbit2b)

Been there, done that. I usually sew something that goes quick, like a coil bowl, if I feel like sewing at all. That way I don't have much time into it and it's no big deal.

Trixie

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Trixie

Billy Graham has nothing to fear from me; I'm not going to preach. However, I can surely testify to this - when I am absent any creative inspiration, when I look at everything and think " I don't want to" and nothing calls to me, I plod on. To my delight, God blesses even more the gifts I stitch when I am in a funk. Last Saturday, I sailed together a simple Minkee pillowcase for a sweetheart of a little girl who was off to St Jude's with leukemia. Little did she know that I wasn't very happy to be inside vacuuming up Minkee droppings while everybody else was outside getting ready for a fishing trip. Truth is, I was not motivated and close to downright cranky. She sent me a precious note that it was so nice to have something that didn't hurt her head. Shame on me. Plodding on. Polly

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Polly Esther

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Susan Laity Price

Sunny, I have been out of creative juices since my beloved DH passed in November...and just when I get a touch of excitement about anything sewing/quilting related...ppfffft right out the window in a split second. I was supposed to sew up a quilt for a raffle benefiting a scholarship fund my DH's classmates were putting together...guess what...it ain't gettin done this year! At the moment I am busy doing things around my house, such as rebuilding my deck, getting ready for a yard sale and maintaining my garden...but I've also thrown in a little bit of fun using my new to me vintage travel trailer....took my ds and three furry butt k-9's camping this past weekend.

As much as I am sad, I just can't wrap my mind and heart into quilting for the time being, but I'm cutting myself a break about it because I know I'll get back to it eventually.

Enjoy your book! Launie, in Oregon

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simpleseven

I felt the same way after my husband died in March of this year. Couldn't think about crocheting for indigent school kids, couldn't look at my stash, couldn't finish quilt tops.

Then I realized that I had made quilts for only 3 of my 4 adult children, that life can be snuffed out in minutes, and decided I needed to make a quilt for my son that didn't have one yet before I die myself.

I felt the need to make sure something of me survived for each of my children, something I had made by hand, something they would cherish, something from my heart. It will be reversible, tied not quilted, and be put together as a quilt as you go.

I've told him I'm making it so there is no turning back. It took me 3 months to reach that point so give yourself time, enjoy what you enjoy, and your desire to be creative will return.

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Phyllis Nilsson

Thank you all for the good thoughts and advice. Polly, you're the best, ever. Someday I hope to nominate you for something...... maybe the Nobel Prize for Incredibly Inspiring Women. I'm just doing what I can do and trying hard not to harbor expectation or requirements. Times are tough around my house. Economy is scary...... August 1 looms as another Day Of Doom and if we survive that day, then maybe we'll have another few months to breathe. So I'm going to just hunker and maybe keep sewing baby quilts a bit here and there as I can.

Everybody give yourselves a hug, Sunny

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onetexsun

Thank you Sunny but I wasn't going for awards, just wanted to assure you that we all get in a funk now and then. Some of them are really awful. So. Yes. Keeping sewing the baby quilts. Babies are not critical and will love their quilts to pieces. Polly

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Polly Esther

I think we all go thru that at some point or other. Take a break for sure, and relax. Read a novel, see a movie or two, pull a few weeds if you can, enjoy the sunshine and rest. I went so far as to aquire a swing, you know, the ones that look like a couch on a frame? I thoroughly enjoy it! Bring a book, magazine and a glass of iced tea...ahhh. Almost as relaxing as a hammock, and more comfortable than a lawn chair!

Sunny, it's not the end of the world to lose your muse...it will return, they are fickle creatures who sometimes need to be ignored.

amy in CNY

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amy in CNY

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