Taking a Quilting Break
Have you ever had just no ambition to quilt? It does not hit me very often, but when it does – my sewing room remains behind closed doors to the point that I don’t even want to look at it or anything that’s on the other side of the door. I feel like the coach who asks for a timeout when a player’s head isn’t in the game.
This week has been one of those weeks. I am home without adult supervision as my husband, son and daughter are off camping in two different locations. I only have the two older girls at home and they are pretty self-sufficient. They are even old enough to tell me if they are bored or that they want to do something with me. For instance, after my nap yesterday, the girls both came into my bedroom and plopped onto my bed and just visited with me. No place to go, no place to be – just a nice quiet discussion without drama. Those moments in our days always leave my heart soaring.
Normally, I can’t wait to get into my sewing room and get creative. I have plans! I have ideas! I have way more to say through quilting!
NOT this week, though.
I have original designs and patterns printed out, just waiting for me. And waiting. Waiting.
Sometimes, I find it’s good to step back and take stock of myself, my family, my husband, my children, even my quilting – and above all else, my relationship with God.
This week has been that week for me. I cannot predict when this lack of quilted love will strike me, but when it does, it hits me in full force – I don’t even pick up a pin that may have dropped on the floor. I want nothing to do with any type of quilting or sewing. NOTHING!
Of course, this week would have been PERFECT for me to have quilted. Without two of our four kids at home, I had all the time in the late afternoons and evenings to quilt to my heart’s content – if only my heart were into it.
I will force myself to at least put together the next “Pendleton Inspired” block of the month block this evening – but, will leave my other options for quilting on the table, just to see if I have the gumption to do anything further. I’m hoping the mood for quilting comes back soon as I feel like a special part of me is missing.
Do you ever feel like taking a break from quilting? If so, what do you do?
I have had that feeling hit me before, mine lasted over a year. During that time I worked with my polymer clay or made jewelry. I have been back into the quilting thing for the past 2+ years and haven’t touched the jewelry making supplies and barely the clay.
Breaks allow us to look at things with new eyes when we come back to them (even if it makes us think “Why did I buy that ugly fabric?”. (Or beads, clay, etc.)