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Your Quilting Clock
After what seemed like the winter of my childhood revisited, I was inordinately happy to see the snowdrops and the tips of the daffodil leaves poking through the sodden ground. I don’t mind winter weather, in the winter, but I am sure glad to see the seasons beginning to change.
Everything in nature is a cycle, and I think this is so in our quilting lives. I know very few people who are equally creative or productive throughout the whole year or even throughout a single day. For some people, their most productive or creative season or depart (to use an advertising term) is fall, or winter or morning; for others it is spring or summer or evening. I think quilters have timing preferences related to certain tasks; for example, I prefer to cut, doodle, or think about ideas in the morning and piece or do handwork in the evening. I am most creative in the spring and summer, when nature inspires me. This doesn’t mean that I don’t switch if necessary, or that I don’t have creative thoughts in the fall and winter. The most successful artists I’ve met seem to know when their peak periods are, as well as the slow ones, and they have figured out a way to take advantage of both.
Try not to beat yourself over the head if you are falling behind
in your projects. Instead, the next time you have had a super-productive day,
try to write down detailed notes: Day, date; time you started and stopped
sewing. Try to remember, hour-by-hour, what tasks you did: cutting, sewing,
design, handwork. Were there lots of interruptions, or were you able to sew
continuously? Did you take breaks? What did you eat? Were you sewing by
yourself, or with a group? Try to see if you can replicate the schedule you had
on that incredibly productive day; you may find out that you too have an
internal quilting clock, and you can make the most of it.
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