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Old 10-03-2007, 06:51 AM
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ritamaew
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I too need a jump start with a creative idea. Here are some tips I have been given:

1. What's on the sewing room floor? Make a collage and add to it as it speaks to you.

2. Can you doodle? Fold a piece of paper into eighths. Draw two lines across. Then open the paper and make a mirror image into a fourth then a half and then a whole. Hmm--maybe a little refinement here and there. What color would bring this part out? You get the idea.

3. Take a simple subject like a leaf. Make it into a color study. Do it in four colorways. Come on now--try those weird combinations.

4. Do a Ricky Tims convergence quilt.

5. Finally free yourself up and open up to universe. Don't be afraid to fail. There is no failure-- only learning experiences and opportunities to grow.

Try quilting flames or bubbles but use new and different threads that add to the design

Rita


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