Oh my, that might be the most “click-baitest” post title I have ever written but it is true. While there is tons of ways to improve your skill set on the techniques there is really only one way to become the best quilter you can be – Stop Quilting
Yes, I said it, stop quilting.
Get up, call a friend, see a movie, talk a walk in the woods. Go a little crazy and take up yet another hobby. In my case I have decided to get back into needle-felting and I am LOVING IT!!
Don’t get me wrong, quilting is fantastic. But I can promise you that if you take part in lots of different creative adventures you will be a better quilter.
A walk in the woods with your camera in hand will reveal to you more line and depth than you ever dreamed possible.
A walking tour in the urban jungle will bring gifts that will rest in the recesses of your mind until the very moment you need a new quilting motif for that very special project.
A night out making really bad art and drinking passable red wine {or beer} with friends will make your heart swell and rekindle friendships that being alone in your sewing room might have strained.
Dive in a river and feel the cool water against your skin and the dappled pattern of the shade on bank. See the millions of greens that only nature can put together.
Take up a sport, run or walk or ride a bike. Quilting has never been known to do much for the figure besides spread the backsides of those who sit for hours as quilts come together stitch by stitch.
For goodness sake, go have sex! Really, I can even give you 7 reasons that even your doctor will approve of!
Sing, or play an instrument, hell even play it badly… except the tuba, no one needs that.
And after you have done the things that have taken you away come back to your sewing room, you might not have gotten as much quilted as you had planned but I can promise you that without a stitch being sewn in the meantime you will have become a better quilter.
I promise.
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