I go in crafting phases....I might obsessively cross-stitch everything in reach for eight months, then be done with that for a couple years. This year has been an all-knitting kind of year, with a sudden resistance to sewing. I thought at first it was just a matter of the Hobby Wheel having turned again, but working on the simple dresses for my niece's doll lately, the problem has become clear:
I don't want to make anything because I don't want to make any of the patterns I have! I want to make "something else!"
This should have been obvious, as I've been tending more towards trying to make my own knitting patterns for Emily (and Nora, when she was here). So once the birthday present sewing is done, I'm going to sit down and work out patterns for a couple things I'd like to make for Emily.
Suddenly, sewing is exciting again! I've been happily thumbing through The Dressmaker's Technique Bible and sketching out outfits.
Even though, with making up a new pattern of my own, the end result is far from guaranteed.... LOL
Now to see if I can finish up the Birthday Present sewing this weekend!
I can relate to this because I'm the same...I think it is natures way of preventing us from becoming bored! I'm really wanting to sew at the moment, but like you, I want to sew 'something else'...but there's the rub. I have lots of patterns, I've made lots of patterns for other dolls, but I've not yet made lots of patterns for Sasha, and she is who I want to sew for. But I'm being lazy and want someone else to have done the hard work for me...ie the drafting out of the patterns. But, looking at what is available already, none of them are what I'm looking for, so it looks like I'll be doing the drafting after all!
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing what you come up with...see I told you you should get a Sasha, then you could draft and I could sew!!! ;)
That's a good, sound logic! (It sounds much better than being fickle about crafts! LOL)
DeleteI'm looking forward to seeing what you create for Sasha, though I agree, it's much less work when someone else makes the pattern for us! And in my case, so, so much faster... ;)
I get it. I get totally sucked into the new thing, learn/practice the skill enough until I get to about intermediate level, then... usually find something else to do, lol! But it all comes around again so I keep my tools and stashes.
ReplyDeleteSewing has been hard for me lately too. I think it's because I'm inherently lazy. I look back at things I did when my kid was a tiny baby -- Japanese craft bk baby clothes and self drafting -- and I'm awed... I don't think I have it in me now. It took passion and I don't feel that anymore.
Problem is, I'm not finding the next new craft thing either. I'm limping along with the sewing and knitting. BJDs are the new money hog...
Eh, maybe when the kid goes back to school, I'll get bored enough to try something new...
LOL Getting to the intermediate level and promptly losing interest is pretty much it. I keep all the tools and stuff too, because you can bet as soon as I toss the supplies I will suddenly become interested again! Of course, whenever I go back to a craft, I have to re-learn half of what I knew before.
DeleteMaybe the next craft will be something to do with the BJDs! I love the blog Craft Gossip for seeing different craft ideas...