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Why Quilt on Off the Wall Friday
The last 10 months my life has been consumed by a new job which while not earth shattering has been super fun. And my studio has sat empty. I work all day creatively problem solving my way through customer service. And my studio sits empty. I wake up in the morning, thinking of ways to be more productive at my desk. And my studio still sits empty.
It's been very fulfilling, and a pleasure and the months have flown by. The work week is filled with one challenge after another. The weekends are time for sleep and recharging. It actually gave me pause when I glanced in my empty studio (all clean btw), to think do I really want to keep quilting? It's been a nice 30 year run - shrug -I could just give it up.
Then, I stopped myself and had a real Moonstruck Cher Moment
This year while amazing can't be sustained. Soon...and it's already starting to happen...I'll get things so together at work that it will start being...ya know...work.
Quilting isn't like that. Art isn't like that. Every piece whether a masterpiece or dog is a new bit of you. There is always something new to learn - to touch - to express. Quilting is a challenge, a lesson in perseverance as well as many moments of quiet. It makes old things new and ties us to many generations of needles and thread. Quilts will last.
I am always very thankful that I got to start when I was 26 and could weather these cycles of creativity. I've learn to give myself grace when I spend months away from my sewing machine. But this grace is starting to turn into season of inertia. It needs to stop.
I'm writing this all, not only to journal it for the future Nina, but for anybody else going through it. I'm hoping this spring will renew my energy and revitalize my passion. It's still there. And so is my studio.
So enough about me....What Have You've Been Up to Creatively?
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