I got my dolls because I wanted to make things for them. Sewing and whatnot. But now I’m just kinda meh about it. It used to be fun and I’d spend hours daydreaming and planning on what to make. But now I’ll go and sit for 30 minutes and pull fabric and just have no idea what to do. Even if I want to sew something, I’ll never actually make it because I automatically think that I’ll get bored halfway through and not finish. I’m awful about going through and finishing stuff, even non doll related things. Or I’ll refuse to cut it out and start because that fabric is reserved for a project I know full well I’ll never do. Or I’m not good enough to make that, and so I need to wait until I am (while not practicing or making anything marginally related to it). If I do almost finish it, I will 90% of the time get distracted and put no fasteners on. Like snaps or Velcro. Even having something in my mind to start with doesn’t help. I found a website that’s a gold mine of free patterns for my size of doll. Even if it doesn’t fit, it’s close enough to adapt easily and it’s the basics, but it goes pretty far if you’re willing to mess with different fabrics. I even used one to make a pinnable model of one of my dolls so I could drape easier. It has helped a bit, since there’s not so much thinking, so I’ve used that a bit recently to try to get back into things.
Honestly, most of my hobbies just aren’t fun for me anymore. It’s like burnout but burnout requires you actually do something to get burned out on. I just have several hundred dollars spent on models that I like and refuse to get rid of, but the original purpose is almost completely gone and now I feel lost. At the moment, my projects are non doll related, so I guess I’ll just take a break, drive myself up the wall with some new techniques, and see how that goes.
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