7 Useful Tips How to Develop a Creative Habit
It is okay to feel uninspired time to time and feel like creativity just does not want to come! You found yourself keep postponing to pick up the beginner steps on sewing fashion, learning clothing diy hacks for updating your old clothes with smart clothing tricks or making some trendy DIY accessories to refresh your wardrobe. This post shows you practical tips how you can put yourself into the mood of making and creating.
The amazing thing is creativity isn’t a trait someone born with, rather is a habit anyone can take on and perfect :)
“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative (...) there’s a process that generates creativity—and you can learn it. And you can make it habitual.”
Moving away from any specific creativity like DIY dress making and sewing, wether your interest lies anywhere in between writing a sci fi storyline, video editing world travel adventures, excelling your favourite song in the shower, making the perfect lawn and flower garden, baking, creating cake toppers, picking up a new craftsmanship, home decorating, renovating old timers or learning a new magic trick, we are wired to be creative. We are born to express that creative spark in us, and is important to find a time and place to listen to these ideas.
Blockages stops us being creative
Some feel it is a waste of time and energy could be better spent elsewhere with more productive results. But as with everything this isn’t a quick fix with fast results, it needs time, learning and mastering a creative habit a creative thinking and putting our attention to see the result. It is healthy to slow down and concentrate on one thing for 10 minutes a day and slowly build this up and start from there.
Allow your mind to express ideas regardless how silly it might sound. You will feel switched off during those moments and will make you are a happier person. That will result a quality increase in our well being and so will be making us better in all areas of life.
It can be by practising mindfulness, journalling..the routines that very successful people follow we know, I won’t list all but for a promising result merit from them :)
Here, I would like to share 7 extremely useful and practical tips to help you get in the mood to pursue a steady craft and clothes making DIY routine and to practise your new creative habit!
So, how to develop a creative habit that gets you into sewing and fashion DIY ?
Tip 1: HAVE CREATIVE CONFIDENCE
Before anything, give yourself permission to accept whatever runs through your mind.
Letting your mind go might be a bit unusual if this is your first beginner DIY as we are programmed to be served and accustomed to see everything laid out through ads, marketing campaigns, runways, social media so no brain cell killed on our behalf trying to do the thinking for ourselves.
But this time let your thoughts and ideas consistently flow no matter how crazy they sound :) accept the process and don’t judge them nor push them aside.
Reconstructing your existing garments are a great way of practising for example. Act like if you were the creative line director or the artist, would you change the buttons, spice it up with interesting stitches, spray paint a slogan on the back .. add extra features?
When brainstorming accept your ability in making something unique and high value since no one else sees the same thing from that angle so use this opportunity with your own innovative mindset and a big dose of creativity applied.
Make rituals around it, make it into a daily habit the time you are looking forward every day. Sipping a tea whilst going though your handpicked curated pics on Pinterest, perhaps running through your notes and fashion sketches is therapeutic, and work like meditation. This will set you into motion and will keep you in the momentum.
As soon as new ideas run through our mind we usually forget them or instinctively convince ourselves out of them - sadly many life changing ideas get buried under. Our brain never rests and literally within 5 seconds plenty of reasons will be formulated in our mind why it seems like a bad idea.
Resist the process by writing them down straight away!
Start creating a place where you start making notes for 5 minutes then increase it to 6 the next day. Keep it short at the beginning so it remains easy to integrate new habits into your daily routine.
Tip 2: CREATE A COLOR BOARD
Adding colours will change your craft space and promote energy, liveliness. Wether you are a lover of vibrance or not, it can serve well. It is handy to have some sort of color palette nearby as you never know what you might end up mixing in the color spectrum.
Maybe a certain shade will remind you of old experiences, a season in the year and your upcoming sewing DIY or clothes making project’s theme could be wrapped around it.
How to do one?
There are limitless way to make one, however the simplest is to get a piece of cardboard, paint a white base layer, then start adding each colors of the rainbow, alternatively you can create one out of little pieces of fabric scraps or material waste, cut small squares and glue them on your painted board.
You can also add instant colour splashes to your creative corner with your own abstract DIY artwork painting or with a framed Coloring Pencils Photo!
Tip 3: DISPLAY YOUR TREASURES
So you have been a collector of many cool little bits and sewing supplies and just can’t wait to start off your sewing journey ? Funky buttons, interesting looking beads, threads, fabric patches, fabrics, ribbons they could be of great use when a match made in heaven sewing project comes along ?
Well don’t hide them stacked up somewhere you can’t even recall where you placed them! Put them on display! Recycle your jar bottles and fill them with buttons and color coded threads.
I guarantee you will put them in action in no time as they never ever out of sight again.
Tip 5: CREATE A MOOD BOARD OR FABRIC DISPLAY
Craft your own visual board before your actual craft begins:)
Mood boards can work as a checklist and a systematic step for any creative procedure. There are no rules of how you put one together, it can consist of symbolic items, natural elements, such as leaves, flowers colours of seasons, shades, texture, polaroid pics, perhaps a catchy slogan that gets you going any time looking at it.
Tip 6: SOURCE FOR INSPIRATIONAL IDEAS
Runway shows, fashion galleries and buzzwords #creativefashion #brightoutfitideas are my main source. Love researching bold creative designer outfits and see if I can hack designer clothes and put them through my interpretation.
Research sites you love, scroll through online galleries for ideas. Collect fashion albums, designer runway year books. Check what is trending right now on social media and see what is your take on the actual trend, what are you preferences and how would you change them ? Where does it fit into your DIY ideas and make your own or embellish a stylish piece.
Tip 7: CONNECT
Sharing ideas, exchanging tips, seeing other’s final creations is fun.
Keep in touch with likeminded individuals who are also passionate for creating is always a great idea and it makes it so much better if other can give a shout-out and a big round applause when your creation is
REA - D - i - Y
Join a local hand-stitching club or follow other DIY fashion bloggers on Youtube and TikTok for cooler and cooler sewing tutorials and step by step guides about clothes reconstruction, see tips and tricks on how one can update old clothes in the name of sustainability and find personal resonance in a form of customisation.
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