My advice is to let it ride it's course, take a class, go to a quilt show, go through your quilt books and magazines for inspiration, and sooner or later your urge to quilt will come back. When I get stuck, I sew simple things, pot holders, a new dress for you or a little girl; or just read a good book. You'll get your groove back.

Been there, done that. If you're having health issues, its hard to sustain the energy. BUT, a dear friend was having to finish a top for a certain occasion. I offered to help her. So, it was sort of half a project, and half a chance to visit. It worked! We got her project finished, talked, laughed, vented - it was a win-win situation for both of us. It increased my interest & enthusiasm. And the dry spell was over. Don't stress!
It's a creative outlet for most of us & sometimes your brain just haas to percolate on an endeavor. (This was said by a physics professor of all places…)

I like Tartan's response. When I can't get my quilting mojo going, which isn't very often, I clean my sewing room and do some re-organizing. Usually in the process I find some fabric that I had forgotten and that is enough to kick start me. Looking through magazines also gets me thinking of projects. Watching a video, like Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt, also gets me back in the mood for quilting. Just take some time off, it'll come back; I don't think a quilter ever quits.

I think we have all been there at one time or another. Quilting is what we do for enjoyment so I wouldn't want to force yourself to do it. Since it is the holiday season, maybe this is the time to take your sewing machine in for it's yearly servicing. Do the things that the holiday season demands of us all such as cleaning, cooking and shopping. When the new year starts, look at some of your patterns and go to your LQS, pet some of the fabric, as Paper Princess suggested and see if your inspired to start quilting.

I have times when I lose my mojo too.Fondling fabric-making possible combos in piles-touching finished items all help me get moving adain.

Walk through a quilt store, just look at the fabrics and patterns.

invite some friends over to quilt with you...

Boy can I relate! :( Just two nites ago I finally sat down & sewed together a block that was part of this boards Farmers Wife Quilt BOM in 2011. I got out my notebook to jot down the date & noted that after my DH died in May, 2011, I did sort of a catch up in late June & July, 2011 before I started teaching again, but there was nothing noted 'til 10/13 - which means I sewed that block October 13 of 2012. Then nothing til this week - & this was one that I cut out 10/13. It did feel good tho to sit at my machine in my new studio in my own sweet time. I did squeeze in teaching a Geometry class built around designing & creating a quilt at my last HS teaching job, but that is the extent of my quilting the past couple years. My life has changed dramatically in more ways than one & I have been quite busy dealing with & making those changes - that's my excuse anyway. Traveled a lot this past year w/my Dad dying last Xmas & I stayed in the midwest w/my Mom for a couple months. I did take a very old UFO Xmas quilt handquilting project w/me & discovered to my surprise that my arthritis is now in my wrists & hurt most of the rest of this year to the point of having to wear a wrist brace. Been downsizing & packing up my house in AZ & moving to central CA since August 2012. Finally sold the house September 10th & am done w/that. Been taking my time putting together my new studio, going thru everything to find it a new home in a new space. I've gone to a couple local quilt guild meetings trying to get started w/finding some new quilting buddies to get together with to jumpstart my own self - but that just takes time. Brought home some donation quilts from a Project Linus huge quilt bee to put on my Tin Lizzie to get back into my machine quilting & yes it has been on the machine since July, but have yet to take a stitch. Maybe today - but I have said that several times since putting it on the machine! Just found out a good friend of my new partner got married a couple weeks ago & my first reaction was that I want to make them a quilt. So was into the books & found a pattern we both like the looks of & have gone thru my stash to find what I have that will work & to see what I will need to buy to get started. That mojo is coming back slowly, but it has been a long hiatus that apparently was just necessary for me. When I finally get my desktop computer back (it's been down almost a year w/everything else going on), I will finally be able to share pics of my new space & get back to completing & sharing the last 5 blocks & completed quilt top w/the gals I have yet to finish from the 2011-2012 BOM club. It will turn around. Give yourself room to breathe, read a good book, let yourself evolve back into it when you are ready.

I have also been "locked out" of my sewing room since May with health issues. It's like my mojo got ripped away from me. But I have promised a quilt for a church's raffle, and they need it Friday or Saturday. The top is done, the back isn't, and then I have to quilt and bind it. So we will see, with this forced return, if the mojo also returns. I never thought I'd see the day when I did not want to finish a quilt, but here it is.

after my favorite lqs closed it took me a year to walk in to another shop. then i found i had little or no interest in quilting for a while, everything i was working on was a pain in the rear. so i stepped back, and started other things, knitting, wool felt and coloring mandalas,and zentangles... the thing that keeps me going now is the doll quilt swap. with our busy lives, having someone give me a theme, a small size to work with and a deadline is what i need. you will find something, it may be quilting or maybe it will be something else.