At this time of the year I always seem to have a creativity low point and at one time it used to really bother me. I know now that it is just the time of the year and all will be well again eventually. I don't think it is unusual to have these times and I am sure that my brain is just quietly mulling over new projects during the darker months.
My way of dealing with it is a two way plan often doing the two things at the same time! Clearing and tidying the workroom is good as it gives me the chance of sorting stuff out properly and in the process it turns up all sorts of odds and ends that had been lost/put away for later and such like.
The other thing I do is what I think of as "mindless sewing" -----sort of sewing just for the sake of it! Into this category are the new kitchen curtains, a few things that needed turning up, altering or hemmed. It is also better for the sewing machine to be used regularly.
The picture above is sort of "mindless" sewing as all I had to do was to load the design files into the machine and babysit the stitchout but unlike curtains this has my ideas flowing again. :o)
The files are here at the Bernina USA site. They are the stitches available as outline stitches in the Bernina Cutwork software. Actually they are only the first 200 or so so options as I thought they were enough to be going on with. I was going to make a little book of them but thought a roll would be more useful. As well as showing the stitches better the relative size of the stitches shows too. As you can see some are much wider than others. The stitches can all be altered (width and length) in the software but I think this will be very useful as a start point.
