My Whole Life in One Quilt? No Wonder I’m Confounded By Meg Cox I’ve been a believer in the slow stitching movement ever since Mark Lipinski started talking about it. Like most quilters, I’m usually making quilts for a deadline, not a legacy. But I do have ambitions to make bigger, more challenging quilts. I shy […]
Perfectionism, Creativity, and Slow Stitching Personality Traits That Signal Your Perfectionism is About to Spin Out of Control Your family and friends tease you about never finishing any of your creative projects. The members of your stitching groups and quilting guilds wonder why you never bring any of your work to share with the […]
I have always been, and continue to be, a great fan of American Quilt Retailer magazine. The magazine is designed for “Helping the Creative Textile Retailer Improve Business Piece by Piece.” Imagine my surprise to be leafing through the October 2014 issue to find a tip-of-the-hat to The Slow Stitching Movement in Linda Turner Griepentrog’s Snippets […]
This note comes from Sally Maxwell. Sally attended a Slow Stitching Movement lecture in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Sally wrote to me as she began her daily ‘process pages’ that she began writing. Mark, I was a part of the audience for The Slow Stitching Movement presentation in Fredericksburg VA and began the writings that you suggested this morning. As I started, […]
I am a perfectionist. It’s not just a quirk. It is something that I have grown up with, maybe learned from my parents and/or teachers, or perhaps it is just something that I was born with, something in my DNA. It doesn’t really matter though, does it? The bottom line is trying to be […]
Nothing but nothing will kill your innate and emerging creativity like perfection. The more perfect I try to be, the more it sabotages my stitching and everything else around me. So maybe this is the time to share my dirty little secret: trying to be perfect does me in every time. My never ending search […]
At long last, the much talked about, THE SLOW STITCHING MOVEMENT webinar, hosted by Mark Lipinski is now available. ON DEMAND, for downloading directly to your computer! Just click on the link and follow the download directions at fonsandporter.com. This link will take you there directly: https://www.shopfonsandporter.com/product/Mark-Lipinski-Presents-The-Slow-Stitching-Movement-Creating-Promoting-and-Sustaining-a-New-Vision-in-Quiltmaking-on-demand-webinar/On-Demand-Web-Seminars
The Slow Stitching Movement 