I realize that I am not able to promise daily blog posts or new creative project a week type of blogging. What I'm imaging is a space where I can share my progress, my moments of "stuck", excitement, and creativity. I am hoping to find community, feedback, and friends.
I have been thinking about creating lately A LOT. Thinking about what to create, while my head is bursting with ideas, inspirations from Pinterest boards, other blogs. I feel overwhelmed. I ask myself almost daily - What should I make? ... a quilt, a bag, little cute mushroom piece? ... Ooh, I should make that skirt for myself? Confused I should say, not inspired. That's how I feel.
I am going to spent the evenings and the next weekend on figuring out my creative routine. Seems like an oxymoron, but it turns out that all most of creative people have established routines that work for them.
What is your routine to get into the mood of making?
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Break Free, Go Bold!
It has been exactly 1042 days since my last post...
There is no possible way that I will bore you with everything that has happened in my life since, but I'd rather start fresh and with whole new blog as my clean slate.
So why now? I have been thinking about blogging again, but always felt like it would become just another "thing" and I won't find the time. Deep down I knew I would start again, but I needed that last push..
That last push happened this past weekend. I drove up to Crystal Lake to see what the Crystal Lake Modern Quilt Guild was about (Mainly what the quilt guild was about, since I have never before joined or visited any other guild.), but more importantly the speaker for the month was Jacquie Gering form Tallgrass Prairie Studio.
I met Jacquie back in 2008 through blogging. Especially when she worked on the quilt with her mom and asked for ideas for the layout. I love to sketch out ideas and play with different layouts whether they are quilts, vegetables in my garden, trees and perennials in my or my clients yards. I sent Jacquie scanned image of my idea for her quilt layout and she liked it! You can read about that here and here. So this is where Jacquie and I met.
Well, since then Jacquie quilted and designed and quilted some more and today she is internationally known quilter/ artist/ designer/ teacher. She and Katie Pedersen published a book! I guess, you all can see how excited I was to meet her in person.
Jacquie's quilts are unique, modern and definitely edgy. She has a story that comes with each quilt, some simple, some funny and others very deep. Inspired by mid centure design and most vintage (No surprised I love her work.) she pushes the modern quilting to another level.
It was meeting and talking to Jacquie that pushed me to this first of many posts. I realized how much it means to me to have that quilting community of women that share, teach and inspire each other. Being a reader is not enough for me, I miss the interaction.
So here is to blogging world and to Jacquie Gering!
There is no possible way that I will bore you with everything that has happened in my life since, but I'd rather start fresh and with whole new blog as my clean slate.
So why now? I have been thinking about blogging again, but always felt like it would become just another "thing" and I won't find the time. Deep down I knew I would start again, but I needed that last push..
That last push happened this past weekend. I drove up to Crystal Lake to see what the Crystal Lake Modern Quilt Guild was about (Mainly what the quilt guild was about, since I have never before joined or visited any other guild.), but more importantly the speaker for the month was Jacquie Gering form Tallgrass Prairie Studio.
I met Jacquie back in 2008 through blogging. Especially when she worked on the quilt with her mom and asked for ideas for the layout. I love to sketch out ideas and play with different layouts whether they are quilts, vegetables in my garden, trees and perennials in my or my clients yards. I sent Jacquie scanned image of my idea for her quilt layout and she liked it! You can read about that here and here. So this is where Jacquie and I met.
Well, since then Jacquie quilted and designed and quilted some more and today she is internationally known quilter/ artist/ designer/ teacher. She and Katie Pedersen published a book! I guess, you all can see how excited I was to meet her in person.
Jacquie's quilts are unique, modern and definitely edgy. She has a story that comes with each quilt, some simple, some funny and others very deep. Inspired by mid centure design and most vintage (No surprised I love her work.) she pushes the modern quilting to another level.
It was meeting and talking to Jacquie that pushed me to this first of many posts. I realized how much it means to me to have that quilting community of women that share, teach and inspire each other. Being a reader is not enough for me, I miss the interaction.
So here is to blogging world and to Jacquie Gering!
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