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Member since 11/21/09
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Posted on: 1/27/10 5:26 PM ET
For some reason I can not get myself into my sewing room and sew. It is like there is some kind of blockage thing going on. Yesterday I did go to my sewing room, but only looked around and walked back out. How odd is this?

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Posted on: 1/27/10 5:57 PM ET
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not odd. I am sort of in the same place. Search for the word "mojo" in the boards, a lot of people post items about losing their sewing mojo.... it will come back
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Posted on: 1/27/10 7:56 PM ET
"Slump" is another word we use for loss of mojo.

Yeah, we talk about this a lot. :)
  
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Posted on: 1/27/10 10:18 PM ET
That's me for the past couple of months. I have lots of ideas and dreams, along with fabric and patterns. Nothing is getting done and I'm complaining about not having anything new to wear.
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January 2009 to January 2010 81 yards out and 71yards in January 2010 to the present 106.7 yards out and 146.5 yards in. January 2011 to the present: 47 yards out and 69 yards in.
  
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Posted on: 1/28/10 11:59 AM ET
Maybe you're too rich.
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Posted on: 1/28/10 12:04 PM ET
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Quote:
Maybe you're too rich.


Good insight... I am eager to read the "Paradox of Choices"
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Posted on: 1/28/10 12:32 PM ET
Kathleen I think that artical is right on. I have to much, so I can never settle on just one thing. Even when I have settled on one thing (not lately) I want to be creative and nothing comes to mind so I don't do anything.

Alright, lets see what to I want? a vest.
fabric? The frayed denim (I have had this stuff for a couple of years)
Pattern? I must have something in my pattern drawer? I will go look.

I have a plan and I have the stuff. I can do this.
I'll get back to you guys on how this went.

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Posted on: 1/28/10 1:48 PM ET
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I love this article. It is so true . My creativity is coming back since I have had to quit buying so much fabric. (lack of funds) Instead of sewing I would purchase fabric. Now I sew instead of shop. If I go to the fabric store it is only for the notion I am out of, not to bring home 6 more yards of fabric. I want to see the bottom of my stash and have a few empty shelves. I have commited to the one garment at least a month. Shop the stash.
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Posted on: 1/29/10 6:13 PM ET
I read somewhere that Sandra Betzina doesn't have a stash. She buys for each project and then throws away all the scraps. Maybe for some people, having all that fabric is a distraction. For me, it's sewing books. I love them and can convince myself I'm sewing when I'm just reading about sewing.
  
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Posted on: 1/30/10 8:57 AM ET
I suffer from FoF (fear of fitting), or maybe it is FF (fitting freeze). I do a muslin but I do not complete it because I get stuck, and life gets in the way, then I cannot remember where I was. I took the bodice muslin class and never finished, because we got stuck on the sleeve, then I took the set in sleeve class, and life got in the way. I loved the bodice muslin class and learned lots of stuff.

Part of the problem is also indecision, should I adjust it according to FFRP, or Fast Fit, or Fitting Finesse. Then of course I have posted a few things on the fitting forum, and the advice is so varied.

I have the Hot Patterns Riviera Cardigan cut out and ready to sew up, hoping that a looser fitting jacket with less fitting problems will jump start the sewing process.

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--Becky
  
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