Enjoying The Process!

Where to start? A quick clean up and my studio is ready and set for another year. I have been dividing my studio time between my “Unfinished Finally Over” UFO’s, working on WIP’s (Works In Progress), mind-planning some new ones (also known as noodling around some ideas) and playing with some projects that are feeding my creative soul. Is anybody ever just working on one thing!!

 

This quilt was pitifully close to completion and I am at a loss as to exactly why it was languishing! It is now done! (I refrained from inserting a video of my happy dance!)

 

 

All the projects in my UFO pile are things I am still attached to and want to complete. And I am pressing forward with them because I can feel a new creative focus coming and I don’t want to go too far along that new path without finishing them for fear I will no longer be enthused by them.

 

New projects … well … a new babe arrived a wee bit early and is doing very, very well. Time to get to work on the quilt. Here are the fabrics for it:

 

 

And then there is the playing! I have a favourite fabric that I am about to cut to use in a small fun project! I know I am going to get so much visual joy looking at it in my studio every day.

 

 

Today I was working in silence in my studio. I realized I was unconsciously taking deep breaths and those breaths were reminding me about my desire this year to “sink into the process”. I was enjoying the silence as I pinned the pattern onto the fabric and was acutely aware of the sound of the scissor blades sliding against each other and the whoosh of the rotary cutter as I worked. With each deep breath I took I was feeling a depth of appreciation for things like cutting boards, rotary cutters, good lighting and my counter height work table (thank you Alex Anderson for vlogging about it a few years back). There was something else too that was working with the “sinking into the process” feeling.

 

When I was on vacation a number of years ago, I went for a walk on the beach with my mother. The wind was so strong that day, that I could stand still, then lean back and the wind would hold me up.

 

 

I realized that’s how it felt today, like I was leaning back into the process, trusting with a deep peace that my creative instincts are true for me. Excited about what I was working on and enjoying the moment. It was a slice of creative heaven!

 

How do you tap into your creative heaven?

 

Have a great week
&
Happy Stitching!