Lost the urge
11-12-2013, 07:46 AM
#32
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I think we all have times like that. I have lots of hobbies that I enjoy like quilting, cross stitch, crochet, reading, and playing golf. It helps me to alternate from one to another instead of doing the same thing all the time. I don't know, maybe I have ADHD. It is turning cold here in Kentucky, so we just finished our golfing season. I am excited to get back to quilting. Maybe you need to learn something new for a hobby so you can do that for a while. I have heard that it is good for the brain to learn new things. Good luck on getting your mojo back.
11-12-2013, 08:13 AM
#33
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This always seems to help me too. I find a quilting show or youtube videos get me in the mood.
11-12-2013, 08:17 AM
#34
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sometimes I just set a small goal for myself to get started. Then amazingly, I don't want to quit. I go in spurts. Right now my crocheting is taking over. Don't worry about it. It will come back.
11-12-2013, 10:18 AM
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It happens. For me, it's a time to reorganize my sewing room, ending with the fabric itself. Something will usually click in there somewhere and get me started again but I think most of us have had a similar experience. Relax. The urge will return.
11-12-2013, 10:51 AM
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I am in the same rutt, I have so many things I want to do but just can't seem to find the will to start them. Yesterday I went in my sewing room for a while and put some things away but that's as far as it got.
11-12-2013, 11:10 AM
#38
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Thanks everyone for the support. I have cleaned, straightened fabric, looked through patterns, and gnerally forced myself to just start moving again. I started making some Christmas tissue box covers, and that really helped. By the time I knew it, I had 4 of them, then just filled them all with Christmas chocolates, and mailed them out. Don't know why really, but it got me moving again. Today am working on a new quilt for a niece with Cancer....thinking I forgot just how lucky I have been.
11-12-2013, 11:20 AM
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11-12-2013, 11:20 AM
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Check out google images or yahoo images, using variations on the word quilt, red quilt, square quilt, round quilt, tow color quilt, Christmas quilt, etc. for inspiration?
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