STITCHER'S STORY
Kickstart your CREATIVITY
Lost your sew-jo and not sure how to get it back? Read on for our 10 top tips on how to build your very own creative habit for sewing success!
BY RUTH BROWN
The pandemic has taken its toll on all our lives to one degree or other. When it comes to creativity, it has had wildly differing effects; while some found the newfound quiet and lack of distraction a boon, inspiring epic sewing marathons the likes of which they had never before been able to experience, others found an overwhelming tyranny of additional duties and stresses – caring for shielding friends and family, homeschooling kids, juggling challenging working circumstancesFor some, little changed in terms of the day-to-day, and yet the desire to create ebbed and flowed.
Lockdown after lockdown has created a kind of inertia. Time moves forwards but nothing changes and so it takes on a strangely elastic form.With nowhere to go and pretty much nothing to do outside the home, what use is there for all the pretty things we usually entice ourselves to sew?