Fifteen Minutes

I lost my mojo when it came to crafting. Nothing really interested me which was really strange. I always had a piece of crochet on the go but nothing inspired me to take up the hook apart from a blanket for my newest grand nephew. However once that was completed and posted that was that. No crochet project on the hook.

As for the quilting I sorted fabric, rearranged half finished projects, sorted threads and even cleaned the sewing machine but no projects were completed and no new projects even imagined.

Pinterest was even made redundant. the place where ideas grew and new ideas sprung to life remained quiet. It did give me new book titles but crafting inspration just didn’t get ignited.

“Serndipity is the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way” according to the Oxford English dictionary. My husband gave me an egg timer which is a fifteen minute timer. He thought I might like it for thos word prompts I enjoy doing.

On a recent quilt retreat while talking with another atendee over a cup of coffee I learnt about the “Glorious Fifteen Minute”. It is the idea of using fifteen minutes to work on a project or job bu to use only fifteeen minutes and then walk away. The idea being that things can get done in fifteen minutes, whether that is to give oneself fifteen minutes of space just to be, or to sort a shelf of books, or to sing a song, or to clean that window. Fifteen miutes can give enough time.

So here was the world giving me two nudges to look at fifteen minutes which is what I did and don’t laugh I made a napkin using the fifteen minute timer numerous times I might add. It was so freeing just to think I needed to onnly spend fifteen minutes and surprised by what I could accomplish without any pressure. So her’e to the Glorious Fifteen Minutes.