quilting burnout
 

Do any of you ever get it?I think I have it-I just can not get motivated to finish a mountain of part done projects.I think I lost my mojo again.I hope it doe not last long and any ideas how to break out of the funk?

I find that I work in waves. Sometimes I'll do nothing but quilt for a few months and then totally lose interest while I start sewing garments. Then I'll knit for a few weeks and then I'll do nothing but read for a few weeks more. I just go with it - keeps life interesting.

Oh my goodness! I just came out of a long funk of not sewing. Saturday I finally took a quilt class and am working on my first quilt since January. And I'm not that enthusiast about it. It's slow going. I'm also in a few BOMs and am trying, not too successfully, to catch up on all of them. I just lost my mojo one day and I'm having a hard time getting it back. It seems to be a chore to sew rather than pleasure. But I'm trying to sew every day and hoping I get the bug again.

When I didn't sew at all, I read Jennifer Chiaverini's quilting novels. That kind of brought me around to dipping my toes into quilting again. Maybe buy her first novel and read it. The first one is called 'The Quilter's Apprentice'. They are very engrossing novels. Very well written. I guarantee you love them.

Can't force it..just relaxx--it will be back!! In the meantime, what else do you enjoy as a relaxing activity?

If it isn't a paying job - and it's out of the way - why worry about if?

It seems like I have lost my mojo to FINISH stuff !!! I must have 20 different quilting projects waiting to be quilted - Christmas placemats set of 6, 3 Christmas stockings, 1 twin size quilt, 1 oversized lap quilt, a Fall wall hanging, a wall hanging for my laundry room, a large Christmas wall hanging, 2 pet placemats, and that's not even the whole list.....I spent a week with my sister - sewing new stuff of course, and resolved I would ONLY finish stuff when I got back. But NOOOOOO......I started a new pillow sham to go with the unfinished twin quilt listed above.....!!!!!!

Yes I lose my mojo. Then I feel guilty. Then out of the clear blue sky I decide to quilt about 20 hours in a weekend.

This is so where I have been since the beginning of the year! But I hope to be re-inspired after we get all packed up and moved! I seem to have an ebb and flow going right now. Hopefully I'll be over it soon!

I go through phases also. If I'm in the mood and can make a comfort quilt for charity in a weekend, but if I'm not I start a new project, and another new project, then I'll cut up my scraps into what ever I'm in the mood to play with most recently 2.5" strips. Last year it was squares. I have piles everywhere. I eventually finish everything or offer them up for adoption with my group.

It may be the wonderful spring weather keeping your quilting juices from flowing. I tend to sew more in the fall and winter.

I will burn out on quilting sometimes, but I will pull out cross stitch, a crochet hook or keep English Paper Piecing. Or sometimes I'll make cards, read 1,000 page book or something like that. I'm almost always doing something creative.