I have seen it dozens, if not hundreds of times. Someone will come into the shop seeking
inspiration. Whether they are beginning
quilters looking for a simple project to get them started, or they have been
quilting for years and are just looking for their next project, it starts out
the same. They wander around the store
looking for something to grab their interest, some spark that will set the
fires of enthusiasm alight. Sometimes
it’s a pattern and sometimes it’s a fabric, either way that moment is
unmistakable. They go from lost and
confused to excited and ready to get started in an instant.
I had a similar thing happen to me as the year began. There I was on the first of January wondering
what I was going to do with the New Year.
The year spread out before me like a blank page waiting for an author’s
pen, and I found it a bit daunting.
There was much that I wanted to do but I hadn’t yet found that spark,
that moment of excitement when the need to do something overwhelms me and i can’t
get started soon enough. Yet all it took
was one thought, one inspiration to bring me back to life. The thrill of a new adventure, a new journey,
a new project, was calling to me.
If I can wish anything for you this year it is this: that
you find something to get excited about.
