How do YOU conquer quilter's block?
03-01-2011, 07:48 AM
#91
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Dig out your idea journal. Look at books or magazines. If you have some WIP's/UFO's pick up one and do one little thing on it. Sometimes it is just getting started that is the problem. Sometimes, for me, my sewing room is a mess and I can't get started until I straighten it out.
03-04-2011, 04:52 AM
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Originally Posted by jitkaau
I've not had the problem yet. However, why not look up some quilt challenges from other guilds or AQS past shows etc and set yourself the goal of making that challenge? It will get you out of your comfort zone, help you to think of new ideas and even if you don't end up with what you started out to do, it is the challenge along the way that could help you discover a new technique or style for you to use. Even if you tried to represent a poem or a quotation as your inspiration,it would be a start.
03-05-2011, 11:18 AM
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When I have a quilter's block,I go in the fabric room and look at the fabrics and run my hands over them.That alone will get me thinking about the quilt that I can make with that fabric.Or I will pick a print focus fabric out and lay it on the table,and then I start pulling out colors that will go with it.The patterns don't do it for me. The fabric will yank me out of my quilting funk every time.
03-05-2011, 11:50 AM
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I keep having to take time off for health reasons, and then I sometimes find that I've lost the impetus to quilt. What I'm doing right now is to keep the quilt I'm working on by the bed (I spend most of my day in the bedroom; go for whatever room works for you) and tell myself that I'm just going to quilt a few stitches. I usually end up doing more than that, but even if it's just a few stitches, at least it means I've picked up a needle that day.
03-11-2011, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
It's not that you "can't" get started but that you won't start. Just pick up a piece of fabric and do what you need to do to get it to BE a quilter's block. Once you make the first cut or take the first measurement or play with the first layout, you'll already be on the road. It happens to most of us at some point.
Pick something up and start going through the motions...the feelings will come.
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