Monday Musings - Get Your Art out there Challenge, Day 1

This is a 5 day challenge that sponsored by the International Association of Creative Arts Professionals - designed to get our art out there. #CreativePassiontoProfit #Day1The Day 1 Challenge - Why do I create?There's a portion of my being that craves the outlet that playing gives me. It's the playtime aspect that appeals to me - the chance to retreat to my oh-sew-beautiful sewing room and create something just for me. Can I figure out the technique? Can I make something that I think is pretty?I've joked a lot about Fabric Therapy in my travels - but it's a real, concrete thing, and there are no calories involved.  The creative force in my life as a child were my aunt and my paternal grandmother. Neither were quilters, but my grandmother did crochet and knitting, my aunt did cakes and I remember putting small glass pins into soaps in her living room on a lot of Friday nights.True confession time - I struggle (as in I really don't like) the paint and sip trend that is so popular. My sister loves it and is a really beautiful painter and artist. I find it extremely frustrating that I don't like it, but it is what it is.As an adult, I looked to counted cross stitch and embroidery before finding my first quilt shop. About 5 years ago, I cleaned (under the guise of reorganizing) and purged my room so that only the quilting related toys remain.I tend to run to the bright colors and uncluttered designs that are so clean now.Here is a picture of the quilt that I like the best from this year  - new pattern being released this week...