This week I have been feeling inspired.  Demands on my time had kept me from reading blogs most of the past year, and I had completely gotten out of the habit.  It dawned on me early this week that I might enjoy an evening with Bloglovin, and boy did I!  I see there are not as many of us writing these days, but it's still my favorite way to connect with the quilty community.

Soon I was caught up in choosing fabrics for a new project, shopping for some fabric the project demanded and entertaining a few more along the way.

On the other hand, I've been feeling restless. 

A restless energy.  I want to do something and do it well, but what?  This improv assignment from The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters is either exactly right or a nightmare for that sentiment, depending.  Score #4 invites one to proceed without expectations, keep sewing along a train of thought until you feel like moving on, doodle, doodle.

A photo posted by Rachel Hauser (@stitchedincolor) on Jan 30, 2016 at 7:33am PST

I'm not a doodler.  When something works well, like those houses, I tend to become rather attached.  I'd be happy to make a whole quilt of houses, but that's not the assignment.  It's good sometimes to have an assignment, to commit yourself to follow and learn.

Last night while reading The Creative Habit for a second time (because it's really that good), Twyla Tharp reminded me: "Skill gets imprinted through action... Traveling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means to acquiring skill" (pg. 66). 

I'm learning.