A Mixed Creative Year

This year has been a very strange year for me creatively.............. Most of the year my inspiration has been dried up, ideas didn't appear and the urge to create has been an absolute minimum. This hasn't worried me a lot, as an avid reader I once went through a long period of almost non-reading............!

But it explains why I haven't blogged a lot, finished my C&G and omitted from entering the Contemporary Quilt challenge "Breaking Through" and the Quilting Arts Magazine's Calender challenge "Freshly Picked" - no quilts came into my mind, no matter how much I thought. Not a lot of sketchbooks or journals either.

And then I went on to win a major prize at the Festival of Quilts in August - no one was more surprised that I?!? Not that I complain......... But even that didn't get my creative juices flowing.

That's why this splendid book has been my Christmas reading:

Buy it here (UK) and here (US)

It consists of interviews with 14 different artists: Some blog/FB chums - Judy Coates Perez, Pam RuBert and Judy Wise - among them.

And of course it confirms what I already know - Don't wait for your muse to appear, just do it!

Now it's New Year and always a good place to start afresh and with that I wish you all a very

Happy New Year!!

"Do not wit to strike till the iron is hot,

But make it hot by striking!"

William Butler Yates