excerpts from "Time and Talent" by Nancy Breland:
I need bigger blocks of time to sew. To make these, I must be as parsimonious with my time as I am with my most precious fabric. Each day is begun with a plan, and I try to stick to it to earn a little time at the end to sew. Junk mail, junk phone calls, and junk TV are junked.
It is false to think that talent is something that one either has or doesn't have. Skill and aesthetic judgment need to be learned, and experience is a grand teacher. Take a class or read a book, but follow through by actually making what you have learned to make. Repeat what pleases you and abandon what doesn't. Reflect. Create new problems and solve them. Practice your craft and you'll be delighted to find that your achievements have grown into a well-developed talent.
March is the month of serendipity, of luck, of looking over four-leaf clovers, of being delighted to find that we have some "achievements growing into talent" when we least expect it! We may have a project turn out well even when our confidence was not so high, or pull out an idea for rescuing an abandoned project and happily saying, "I meant to do that!"
Speaking of UnFinished Objects, have you cataloged yours lately? Do you really KNOW what is in those containers, bags and baskets of waiting creativity? Or are you missing some fun? If you dare , make an inventory. List them here if you'd like, but do let us know your plan for working through them. If any are just not inspiring to you any more, donate and move on to projects that truly interest you.