{"id":43715,"date":"2018-10-12T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=43715"},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:00:52","slug":"creative-spark-30-trust-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/creative-spark-30-trust-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Spark #30: Trust Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last spark of the book and it is incredibly short. Carrie Blooms ton writes &#8220;Now that you have read this book, let me tell you one last thing to take with you on your adventure:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NOTHING YOU NEED<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">TO KNOW IS IN THIS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BOOK OR ANY OTHER.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing you need is in a class or at the museum or at the art supply store. Everything you need is within you&#8221; (pg.124).<\/p>\n<p>This is hard for me. I always think that if I get a better machine, or that new fabric, or a variety of zippers, my work will be better. I have to learn that my work is good enough with what I have and if I keep striving as discussed last week, then I will move towards perfection.<\/p>\n<p>The author ends with &#8220;Trust yourself and you will awaken to the potential inside you. You already have everything you need (pg.124).<\/p>\n<p>You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/creative-spark-29-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the last post<\/a> on this topic from last week.<\/p>\n<p>Nota bene: we are working through Carrie Bloomston\u2019s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1607059606\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=artquiltmaker-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1607059606&amp;linkId=c1208208167f2ca0da0dc49c0e646520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Little Spark<\/a>. Buy it. Support the artist. Play along. There is much more to each spark than what I am writing. The original chapters will help you. Go buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carriebloomston.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrie Bloomston<\/a>\u2019s book, so you get the full benefit of her fabulousness! You can see my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/book-review-the-little-spark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book review<\/a>, which is what started this flight of fancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last spark of the book and it is incredibly short. Carrie Blooms ton writes &#8220;Now that you have read this book, let me tell you one last thing to take with you on your adventure: NOTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW IS IN THIS BOOK OR ANY OTHER. Nothing you need is in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/creative-spark-30-trust-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Spark #30: Trust Yourself&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[311,72,319],"class_list":["post-43715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-creativity","tag-group-project","tag-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}