If you need some handmade business inspiration to keep your New Year’s goals in check, you’ll love the book “Creative Thursday” by Marisa Anne. Check out the video trailer for a sneak peek at what’s inside the book, and enter to win one of two copies, courtesy of Fabric Seeds, below!
creative thursday book trailer from Marisa Anne on Vimeo.
Giveaway!
Want to win one of two copies of this great book? Leave a comment on this post telling us about one creative goal you have for yourself, whether that’s to learn a new skill or to improve your current craft. We’ll choose two random winners on Sunday, 3/24.
Congrats to our winners, Louise and Domenica!
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My etsy supply sold out at Christmas and I have yet to replenish my stock! I need to get on that!
I sew tote bags with fun fabric and I would like to learn more quilting skills to make them more creative. I just started my fabric online store and love your website. I’m glad I found your site!
Thank you, Teri
My goal is to make a Christmas quilt this year and to catch up on some old UFOs!
My goal is to schedule more time in my sewing room. When life gets busy, my sewing and quilting goes by the wayside and I get cranky when I can’t create!
This year I would like to further my quilting and sewing skills in terms of quality of workmanship. Practice makes perfect.
My goal is to design a quilt myself, rather than always following a pattern.
My biggest undertaking right now is a king sized cathedral quilt. I’ve never quilted before so it is really pushing me.
I want to do Pastel portraits.
I have two creative goals for myself this year. First is a king size scrappy quilt. I’m not a quilter, I consider myself an advanced beginner so this is a huge undertaking for me. It’s slow going but I still believe I’ll get it done by year end.
Second goal is drawing. I’ve always wanted to learn how to but never even tried. Until the beginning or March when I decided to teach myself. One drawing everyday. My six year old son is joining the fun.
I never had much artistic success as a child… I was a straight A student except for art and gym (can you imagine me now?). I was never able to accurately reproduce the objects or photographs we were always supposed to draw. Fast forward about 30 years, and my greatest joys are when I accomplish something creative. I move slowly, try things a bit at a time… and have more joy in the abstract than in the literal. I want to improve my skills at drawing and painting, and want to continue to sew and quilt(which gives me my greatest artisstic satisfaction!).
I would like to improve my sewing skills. I also would like to start making jewelry again.
One of my creative goals for myself is to design some fabric on Spoonflower! I don’t consider myself to be good at drawing but, I have a great sense of color, and I’d love to try it out!
My other goal is to leran how to make a pair of trousers!! 🙂
I intend to do a little sewing everyday… (little and often) and finish my city and guilds course (but that is more than a year’s worth of goal!!)
I’m trying to learn hand applique. It’s not very easy for me when the alternative is fused applique 🙂
I want to express all the impressions I got about my travels in India for a book full of paintings, photographs and stories!
Hi! I’m a machine quilter and my goal is to improve my FM quilting this coming season! I think I just need a little more practice!Thank you for sharing!
One of my goals is to make my first quilt. I started piecing it end of last year, then I just never picked it back up again after Christmas, I’m not sure why! I think I’m a bit scared of quilting it on my little machine!
I want to build up a stock for a market stall and get some patterns properly written up. Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
I want to learn to quilt using a long arm. I also want a long arm, but will settle for renting for a while!
At the moment I am working on improving my hand stitching and have a goal of quilting a whole quilt by hand – we’ll see how it goes!
Hello,
I am waiting for a thimble book and dvd to arrive so I can learn a lot more about hand quilting. Thanks for the opportunity to win the book.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
I want to practise everyday on my new longarm in order to become better and more creative in my stitches. I want to do more free hand and not rely on patterns. I hope to retire from one job so I can do this full time.
I’m currently learning to knit. Fun!
I just moved so right my creative goal is just to get my sewing room organized and redecorated. Then the first sewing project… will be to tailor myself a suit, which will be a first.
Thanks so much for a chance to win a copy of this lovely book!
This year I’m hoping to branch out into handprinted fabrics. I’ve started making my own stencils and as soon as I finish some designs I’m gonna work on block printing and silk screening.
I really want to make a paper-pieced quilt before the end of the year..it’s high time that I got out of my comfort zone and tried something new!
I want to learn how to do free motion quilting! Thanks for the chance to win!!! I love this designer SO SO SO much!
One creative goal that I have for myself for this year is to sell crochet kit using my own pattern…:)
That video and your message are both so beautiful! It kinda made me want to cry.
One goal I have is to make a pretty hat and wear it to my friend’s wedding.
I want to learn to applique and hand piece quilts.
My goal is to start selling on Etsy this year. I’ve thought about it for quite some time and I want to make it happen by end of year. Be especially blessed.
My goal is to improve my quilting skills, thanks for the chance to win.
I would love to learn a little more about photo editing to record my work better. Or perhaps create a longer day. :0)
I am attempting to teach myself free motion quilting on my home machine. I want to be able to finish my own smaller quilts.
I have two goals: the first is personal, I want to learn how to FMQ, or at least learn enough to quilt my small projects with confidence.
Secondly, I would like to continue to encourage and foster my children’s love of crafting. Both my children love to sew and craft and I want this to continue into a life long love of crafting.
I would love to expand my card-making business into more stores, but find it difficult to distinguish myself enough from the CAD-look vs. the graphic designer look. So my goal for this year is to learn watercolour painting and incorporate that into my products.
Thank you for the great giveaway and a chance to win.
I have a couple of goals this year. One is to free motion quilt all of the guilt tops I have. Seems I tend to get stuck at that point. The other is to find a place out in the country (that I can afford)that is big enough to hold classes and all my many projects. Thanks for the chance to win.
I aim to take my little hobby business to he enxt level and branch out into some new products.
I have a goal to make quilts for charity. Not sure how exactly, maybe give the quilts away, but I’d really like to sell them & donate the money to organizations.
I have started making trick or treat bags and personal bags for my child care families and am wanting to branch out to selling them to other childcare providers.
I need to finish my sundresses for the herb festival.
This year I would like to slash my stash by sewing various items for charity.
I have already started on Christmas for my granddaughters. Each have a twin bed crocheted blanket and a scarf. Now onto bags and a few other items they have mentioned wanting that is my goal to get them done before the holidays .. LOL hopefully I make it ..
Thanks for the chance to win ! love your site, thanks for providing it for us in cyberspace!
I just learned how to single crochet. I have made 5 washcloths. I am ready to move on. My goal is to learn more stitches and move on to hats, etc.
I would like to learn to manage my time better and be able to open an on-line store on Etsy:)
I have a goal to free motion quilt the many quilt tops that I have. To not be intimadated by the process and feel like I have to have it perfected before actually using the skill – to just relax and do it my way.
Looks like a great book. I have set creative goals for myself this year: 1. Is to learn more on FMQ 2. Learn how to use crayons on fabric and there are a few more so this would be a help. Thanks for the opportunity
Ohh this looks like a good inspiration book.
My goal in fabric this year is to learn FMQ.
My goal in card making is to learn a new technique on cardstock, once a month
I would love to learn how to sew a lot better than I do. I also need to get a Cuttle Bug so I don’t need to cut shapes out by hand any more for my cards.
I retired a year ago and set a goal to learn to sew. I have been making and sewing craft items and have started collecting fabric to make my first quilts for my two granddaughters. I am also excited about making baby quilts for baby showers. This looks like a great book to keep me motivated. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would like to try one new pattern/tutorial every month. I sell my prim goods to a pumpkin patch for resale, and would like to have some new items to offer this fall. And Christmas presents.. I’m thinking ahead!
This years quilting is all about Christmas and make up and finish. I have so much unfinished, by all rights I should not start one thing new. I am hoping that Marilyn (my right hand gal) has learned enough to be able to help with some of the almost completes. Thanks for a chance to win this book.
I intend to sew more since I have a new sewing machine:)
Actually I need to learn two things: getting to know my new for me Janome 6600, that I got a few months ago. The second thing is that I would like to learn FMQ! Practise everyone tells me, so that is my goal for this year!
I am learning free motion quilting and am interested in new patterns.
My goal as a painter is to be better and be more comfortable with colors.
i would like to be more successfull in my current crafts.
To open an online shop to sell my jewelry and soap
This year I’m trying to be consistently creative. To do a little every day even when it’s hard time wise or inspiration wise. So I can finish up some things and define my creative voice. Thanks for a great giveaway.
My goal is to learn free motion quilting- and i get my first one-on-one lesson tomorrow morning!
Love Creative Thursday! My goal is get more parties listed on my etsy shop!!!
One of my creative goals is to learn FMQ and another is to learn more crochet stitches! I would love to submit a quilt to a major show. Hopefully, that is in my future. I would love to read this book I admire her work!
I would love to improve my quilting technique and learn new block patterns 🙂 Many thanks for this great giveaway!
Create 2 new sewing projects to teach others next month!
Love Creative Thursday’s whimsical designs, thanks for the chance at one of these books, would be thrilled to win!
GOAL = finally making my first quilt! 🙂
I have a stack of UFOs that I am trying to work through before I begin anything new. It’s so hard!
My creative goal is to learn to applique. Guess I’d best get started, so that it will actually have “goal” status, instead of its current “dream” designation.
P.S. Congratulations, Lindsay, on having your iPad/Kindle cover pattern featured in The Quilt Life newsletter. Hooray for you!
My goal is to learn how to use a drop spindle so I can create enough yarn for a pair of socks. And also to design a pattern for those socks.
I’d like to improve my hand quilting — I’m awfully slow right now. Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
A creative goal for myself – I want to learn to crochet and take some great photos of a few of my projects and put them on Etsy… and gather some confidence from somewhere!!!
My goal is to have a better follow-through with my projects. I need to learn to complete one before moving on to the next. 😀
My goal is to open my etsy shop soon!
My goal is to be more aware of my creative needs. Sometimes I just need to sew, and that’s great, but sometimes I need to take the time to explore the creative process no matter where it takes me.
o learn to use my Overlock Machine…it’s still in it’s box.
My biggest creative goal this year is to design fabric. It will be a challenge since I am not so good with color. It really slows me down. This book’s cover inspires me. I must get a copy!
My goal is to draw a lot and improve as well as it have a lot of motivation.
My biggest goal right now is to just do more crafting. It’s tough working full-time and having a toddler. I also try and learn one new thing each year. This year I’m hoping to make my first quilt.
I want to improve my garment sewing and learn button holes!