Where do you look when you lose inspiration for your crafts?

This happens to me almost every summer! I knit mostly for my crafting and while I have tons of ideas in the winter, the summer I get major crafting block! This can be pretty bad because I sell my crafts for some extra income (www.effulgentcrafts.etsy.com). So to try to combat this I go to yarn stores to temp myself with beautiful yarns...in the summer I look more at cottons. It's acutally not horrible to knit with cotton in the summer. You can make items like bath mits, or dish cloths, and these can make great holiday gifts. I also look through knitting books or sites on the internet to try to get that zest for knitting back. This might sound werid, but there ate so many great knitted itmes in the Harry Potter movies, that sometimes I watch one of those to to try inspire me.

i have subscribed to craft magazines and when i am not doing anything i just go thru the books and get inspied to do something i like

I don't crochet, I sew, so there are always patterns and books full of stuff to get ideas. Sometimes things just come up from daily life. Then sometimes in the summer I will see something at a craft fair (I go to lots) and it will inspire me to do something different with that idea, or adapt it to my style. I like very modern things, and lots of craft fairs around me are filled with "country style" crafts...not my cup of tea. The problem with me is I have more ideas than time or energy to do them. Good luck with your crafts.

I usually visit some of the yarn site like Lion Brand. They always have new patterns. The library is also a good place to get ideas.

I put together native American crafts and when it has been a few days since I worked on any thing I will sit down in my room and "things" will come to me. I have a large colsecion of beads, feathers, and other items that I can use in my crafts. It almost never fails that I will thinkd of something to put together.