Sometimes you need to have a conversation with The Girl In Your Head and remind her to be nice to you. You know her, she’s the one who tells you things like: the points don’t match, the quilt doesn’t lie flat, that block has a mistake, you should have finished this project like <<enter date long, long ago>>, you don’t have the right fabric for this project, you have too much fabric, too many projects, you don’t know what you’re doing, you can’t quilt that yourself because you might wreck it, blah, blah, blah.
You are going to be a lot more creative in your quilting if you tell The Girl In Your Head to be nice. Be nice, or be quiet. She needs to realize her place is to be supportive in your quilty journey. If you’re not *yet* the quilter you want to be, you can get there, but only if just let yourself try. Try new techniques, new tools, new designs, new colorways. Take classes and meet other quilters. Buy or borrow a new book or pattern. Then evaluate what worked and what didn’t and learn from that and celebrate the lessons.
If she forgets and starts to bring you down, sit her down and remind The Girl In Your Head to be nice or be quiet, you have some creative work to do and she’s getting in the way.
Courageous Quilting 