Help! I'm not creative!

Sunny · 2006-07-20T04:20:23+00:00

I joined my local guild last fall and have mostly found it to be aconfounding mixture of close friends and the rest of us. But i got upmy courage and joined a new Round Robin for art quilts. It was juststarting and everybody was saying they were learning and exploring andit seemed like fun. Well, long story short, I've managed to make onlytwo of the four meetings so far. Now, we are meeting tomorrow night andeverybody is ordered to bring whatever "art quilt" they are working on.Eeeeeeeeek. I forgot to be creative. I'm working on putting backtogether the crazy quilt I made my friend (which with four new blockswill make two lovely lap-quilt size throws to be donated to our localhospice house). I'm finishing a baby quilt (I stole the idea for theborder from mini-mini) that is lovely but not "art". I'm in the middleof a quilt as you go that was supposed to be a throw but DH loved it sonow I'm expanding it to be a queen size. And I suddenly realize I havenot a single "artsy" bone in my body. I love making things by my ownsort of twisted mix and match way of doing. But they don't end upmaking anybody say "oooooh, how abstract" or "it makes me think offlight....or maybe the wind over Paris". And I'm no good AT ALL atthose amazing geometrics that take a pretty little flying goose and runit around into all kinds of roller coaster sorts of shapes. I havenever gotten the hang of anything geometric. Straight lines are torturefor me, so you can imagine what squished angle straight lines do to mytender psyche.So please, friends, advise me. How do I find my inner artiste? I wantto do some landscapes, but I haven't had time to explore this yet. Ilove working with commercial fabric. I want to get into painting anddyeing, but I can't see myself ever giving up those delicious fabricsthat the designers so lovingly pump out for us every season. Is thereany hope for my artistic bone? Will it develp or should I schlep overto the round robin that sews up tied quiltlets of unmatched double...

Jul 20, 2006 22 Replies

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DrQuilter 19 years ago

i almost hear the song

The ... first.. stitch .. is the hardest,

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Allison 19 years ago

I'm taking that class right now and would definitely recommend it. One of her pieces of advice (which I keep telling myself, since I don't feel very artistic either) is NOT to compare your work with what other people are doing. Everyone is at a different stage; some have much more experience than others; everyone has a different style. The more important thing is if you can see _yourself_ developing. Try things out, see what you like and don't like. Even if you don't like it - you have still learned something. (If you are interested, I think the class is being held again in October).

Allison

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Batik Freak 19 years ago

How about a ladybug in there somewhere?

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